I had a massive collection of books that I used to copy and draw soldiers from. I'm not that good at drawing but used to love it. I also, probably like most of you reading this, had a rather large collection of Airfix 1/32 scale WWII figures.
Me and my brother Lee, used to spend hours setting all the soldiers up, behind Lego barricades
and a home made wooden fort our Dad made for us, then we'd take turns to throw marbles at each others troops.
and a home made wooden fort our Dad made for us, then we'd take turns to throw marbles at each others troops.
Any you knocked over became casualties of war. We'd always end up with the heavy machine gun
figures left. Or the "Laying downers" as we used called them. Trying to turn them over
using a marble from 4 feet away is very hard!
My favourite troops were the DAK, or as I used to call them the German Africa Corps
(Corps as in corpes)
I was fascinated with them, (still am I suppose) especially the German army uniform, but mainly the German helmet and field cap.
They were always my first choice when picking out an army, while my brother loved the British Commandos.
I used to own a FOW DAK army, which I very stupidly sold at a show 1 year, bloody idiot!!
I do still have my collection of old bendy Airfix figures, but decided not to paint them, instead I bought 20 odd figures from ebay for the colossal sum of 99p and chose my two favourite figures to paint up for this round.
Not sure what I'll do with these?
Maybe paint the rest up??
My favourite ever pic of the DAK.
Drooool!
