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11-17-2006, 12:37 AM
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Country:  | I was always wondering why there wasnt more armoured resistance then there was during the invasion of Iraq, maybe that was why, they junked a ****-load of them
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11-17-2006, 02:06 AM
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Country:  | Pity you couldn't bring a load of that junk home with you - if a few more people had managed to at the end of WW2, we'd have a far better collection today in our museums. This'll all get broken up too.
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11-17-2006, 04:08 AM
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Country: | Hey, i wish they had real WW1 planes around but they dont
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11-17-2006, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by 102first_hussars  Hey, i wish they had real WW1 planes around but they dont | You see what people will say about T-72s and BTR-60s in a hundred years.
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11-17-2006, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by ndicki Pity you couldn't bring a load of that junk home with you - if a few more people had managed to at the end of WW2, we'd have a far better collection today in our museums. This'll all get broken up too. | I brought some stuff back. I am a militaria collector remember. I specialize in 3rd Reich uniforms and equipment but I collect anything and everything militaria.
Obviously I could not bring back a tank or anythign but I brought back the Iranian flag that I found in the BMP, Iraqi flag that I pulled off a T-72, 2 Helmets, a Republican Guard uniform (I bought that one though from an Iraqi vendor), and the manuals and TMs that I pulled from the Iraqi and Iranian tanks.
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11-17-2006, 11:38 AM
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I wonder if the next step in militaria and historical collecting is not to collect the people themselves. I have a genuine SS Panzer Lieutenant - as shown by the tattoo - in a large jar of formaldehyde in my study; would anyone like to exchange him for a Heer Grenadier Officer? Captain or Major?
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11-17-2006, 12:03 PM
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11-17-2006, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by ndicki Much better than it might have been, I agree.
I wonder if the next step in militaria and historical collecting is not to collect the people themselves. I have a genuine SS Panzer Lieutenant - as shown by the tattoo - in a large jar of formaldehyde in my study; would anyone like to exchange him for a Heer Grenadier Officer? Captain or Major? | 
I have an Russian tank Lieutenant of one of the Guards Divisions do you except?
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11-17-2006, 03:21 PM
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Country: | No, sorry, Gnomey, only if he is of eastern origin - Mongol or that sort of thing. Unlikely for an officer. What else have you got?
If you've got a Luftwaffe fighter pilot I'd agree, even with slight singeing.
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11-17-2006, 03:26 PM
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Country: | Haven't got much info on him, he is believed to be Kazahk and appartently went to America for the war effort before heading back to the front where is was killed in 1945...
Pilotwise only got an Italian and a couple of Chinese.
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11-17-2006, 05:19 PM
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Country: | Naah, your Chinese are copies;they make them by the thousand in Taiwan, and then pass them off as mainlanders.
The Kazakh might be fun. Did you get the white or the red pattern?
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11-17-2006, 08:14 PM
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Country: | I got the red one, the store I was buying them from had better quality red ones than whites ones for the same price so I went with the red.
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11-18-2006, 05:19 AM
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Country: | Pity. I wanted a white one to go with my Vlassov collection!
Tell me more about your Italian - is he in VGC, singed or badly holed?
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11-18-2006, 07:14 AM
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Country: | An ace of the North African campaign aswell as bloodied over Malta before being indisposed early in the Sicilain Campaign. One of the top Italian aces (very rare these days), his condition isn't perfect for his plane was badly shot up however the blemishes are hard to see now he has a new uniform. If you remove the uniform he is a bit singed and has a couple of holes but otherwise is fine.
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