Playing With My Toys - Military Convoy 14 Oct 2017

Soooo, I've got all these toys I've been blogging just sittin' around doing nothing! In a rare period of  'me' time last week I decided to pull out most of my smaller military vehicles and see what I could do. Using the display base originally built for my American Civil War toys, I re-purposed it into a convoy route. There's approximately 135+ vehicles shown here (I didn't even bother to include the larger MPC stuff) and, using the photos, decided to put together a short video as well. It was fun being able to pull these out of boxes and off shelves and just play for a change - I mean, looking at 'em is cool and all that, but sometimes even collector's just wanna play! Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina

Plasticraft U.S. Army Comical Truck w/o Figure

Along the road to collecting Army vehicles I managed to grab one of these Plasticraft Comical Trucks missing its driver. It doesn't appear to be broken so I'm wondering if some previous owner just didn't like the figure and removed it? Well, speculation is pointles and it is what it is. The fact remains that the truck without driver makes a pretty nice addition to the small Army vehicle fleet. At the end of the post are several pictures of it alongside a Marx Army flat car load for comparison. I found one thing that was funny - the way the stake sides surrounding the bed resemble popsicle sticks! The Army on a budget :-) Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina