Eichhörnchen's Armies

[Eichhörnchen]

I love my ancients - these were produced by European maker 'Atlantic' in the 1970s. I think there were 6 poses and - as usual in these cases - there were a couple of exceptionally strong ones, which I show here. I painted these up and was very pleased with the result. I was in my twenties when these came out, so a bit after my time as a kid - but - back up the bus - I never grew out of being a kid, did I? I would've loved these when I was 12

[August]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I love my ancients - these were produced by European maker 'Atlantic' in the 1970s. I think there were 6 poses and - as usual in these cases - there were a couple of exceptionally strong ones, which I show here. I painted these up and was very pleased with the result. I was in my twenties when these came out, so a bit after my time as a kid - but - back up the bus - I never grew out of being a kid, did I? I would've loved these when I was 12

As the Bard once said:


"Growing up is next to growing old which leads to dying and dying doesn't sound all that much fun to me!"

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I love my ancients - these were produced by European maker 'Atlantic' in the 1970s. I think there were 6 poses and - as usual in these cases - there were a couple of exceptionally strong ones, which I show here. I painted these up and was very pleased with the result. I was in my twenties when these came out, so a bit after my time as a kid - but - back up the bus - I never grew out of being a kid, did I? I would've loved these when I was 12

As always, like your other figurines, these look great.
Did you get them that way, Eichhörnchen or did you have to redo and repaint them ? Either way, they look great.

[Eichhörnchen]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

As always, like your other figurines, these look great.
Did you get them that way, Eichhörnchen or did you have to redo and repaint them ? Either way, they look great.

No these were sparsely painted by the manufacturer - makers would often put a lot of good detail in the sculpting, then give them to outworkers to just chuck a bit of colour on here and there. I stripped that off and completely repainted them, sticking to a 'toy' rather than a 'model' style

[Eichhörnchen]

This massive hunk of metal was one of those 'dream toys for boys' when I was a kid. The trail arms flipped open on unhitching and spades were carried to then fit under the ends. It had a spring-loaded brass shell case to receive a push-in plastic warhead, which all then loaded into the breech just like the real thing. A slight pressure on the lever and the shell was shot way across the room - further than any of your other guns could reach... ideal also for shooting pet cats and budgies. The whole was finished in 1950's British Army "bronze green"

My original Long Tom was o/s after my sister swallowed the firing pin, which is also sprung and sits inside the breech cover; this has a metal tab on it which realistically yanks out the empty shell casing after firing. We watched her for any news for a couple of days but it never reappeared

[Jimbuna]

I had a couple of them buggas as a kid.

[em2nought]

I miss my old toys. Thought the Britain's model of this one was great.


Closest I'm going to come again is a water cannon for songkran.

[ET2SN]

*AHEM*

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I'm not looking for bonus whacking points, but I'll take them just the same.