What was your first XD ?

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What was your first XD ?

Post by pickelhaube » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:47 am

Sharpy is off to a good start . What was your first XD ?

My very first was a spinach 109.
My latest to date a Rudel Stuka.
Kirk Douglas : Mine hit the ground first
John Wayne : Mine was taller



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Post by Razor17019 » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:56 am

My first XD was a Huey Helicopter and German XDs
(The Germans were on sale for 2.98 each @ TRU!)
The vietnam figs were full price at the time.

I had my Huey pilot defending his craft against the Germans in my display.
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Post by Light.Inf.Scout » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:02 am

Mine was either the S1 German Tiger or S1 ME 109 from TRU. My latest is the ME 109 from BBI.
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Post by pickelhaube » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:05 am

Oops... my bad . I forgot about the BBI 109 that is my latest.
Kirk Douglas : Mine hit the ground first
John Wayne : Mine was taller



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Post by Dauntless » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:12 am

My first was the S1 Mustang at TRU. I don't even remember seeing or being interested in any XD till then, but I was hooked after that.

I was buying tons of 1/6 scale figures, hardware and vehicles at the time.
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Post by exether_mega » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:26 am

My first one was a S1 SDKFZ 251. My latest one is a Bunker Hill Avenger.

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Post by vulgarvulture » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:43 am

Can't remember if it was either the S-1 Corsair from Tru, or the P-38 Wine Women & Song, from Tru (sans decals 8) ).

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Post by jlspec » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:49 am

P-40 in Motorworks box at Walmart. $5 on clearance.

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Post by P39time » Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:04 am

Mine was that ugly first version of the 21st Century P-51.
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Post by Tinman » Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:11 am

I think it was the S1 Panther. Hard to remember now....

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Post by tkjaer21 » Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:16 am

My first 1:18 among the big 5 companies (21st Century Toys, BBi, Admiral, F.O.V. and Peguses) was the BBi Lav-25 for my Joes to display in 2002. I was not going to buy the 21st WWII stuff at first. My first 21st C was the AH-1 Super Cobra. Soon, I have purchased everything once I got my hands on the WC-51 and WWII. Now I have just about everything minus the BBI S.W.A.T. stuff.

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Post by immeww2 » Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:20 am

S1 panther and sherman tanks. :D

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Post by Threetoughtrucks » Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:31 am

1/18 Command Car given to me as a BDay present by my son. He found it in TRU and he thought I'd get a kick out of it as we had a 1/1 WC-56 when he was kid and both my boys learned to drive on it as soon as they were big enough to reach the pedals.

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Post by Killerf6 » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:07 am

Bunker Hill corsair was my first, bbi 109 was my most recent in 1/18.
Now I have something like forty aircraft. I guess you could say I'm hooked.
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Post by Buckyroo » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:07 am

S1 P-51 - I would like to see a current production model with that paint scheme.

I thought that was the cat's neow at the time. I am truely amazed at the quality that we get now with the 1/18 items (both manufactured and custom).

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Post by Ta-152 » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:40 am

First was the 21st Huey gunship. Second was the S.1 Stuka. Sadly is nose-dived and the windshield shattered. :(
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Post by JohnLumley » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:46 am

My first XD was the red & white bottom "Red 3" Fw-190 that I saw at Wal-Mart.


There was no turning back after that. :wink:
One hundred and fifty three - 1:18 scale aircraft on the ceiling looks :shock: damn good!

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Post by Folkwulfe » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:21 am

My first? The S1 "Kepford" Corsair by 21C....and my latest? The CL-13 by AT.
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Post by mikeg » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:36 am

first, white 12 109 at TRU, of course- last, cal cutie p-38

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Post by tosborne3 » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:38 am

My first XD was a lone german soldier that I so named Kurtis Von Wolf. :lol: The wifeypoo had already had the P-51 put away for me for christmas and I got the Messerschmidt, after that it was all a blur. Now years later hundreds of soldiers, planes, tanks, etc. and still addicted. 8)
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Post by RAD 2112 » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:39 am

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Post by nooker21 » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:49 am

I got the very first scheme BF109 with the midget pilot and lousy canopy This was after seeing the display at the 21C convention with all of the figures and tanks and the bridge set (did that ever come out?) and being totally in awe of GI Joe scaled WWII stuff...

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Post by toyktdlgh » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:50 am

S1 ME-109 followed by the Tiger Tank. My latest would be an S-1 F-104 Starfighter that I found at a yard sale a few weeks ago and an ME-262 Night fighter I got from Bad Cat on eBay.

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Post by tmanthegreat » Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:28 am

My first XD was the S1 P-51 Mustang, "Lou IV." I just about fell head-over-heels when I saw it at TRU back in October of 2000. My second piece was the S1 Me-109E. I didn't get any of the S1 figures and vehicles until much later. Then I collected the Vietnam stuff, then the S2 WWII vehicles, then the first Wal Mart items (that I could find) and well, it all went from there :wink:

Oddly enough, I was actually very selective the first few years XD products were out. There were some things I purchased - namely aircraft - and others I did not, like the ground vehicles. I only got the Jeep, Kubelwagen, and Panther from ebay years after they were out at TRU. It was sort of the same story with the S1 figures, though I did purchase a few that were on clearance to crew my Tiger and M-41 when those tanks first came out. I did not get any of the smaller Vietnam vehicles until years after the fact and did not get many of those figures, either. I did not get any of the Fallschrimjager figures when out at TRU and got my S1 paratroopers mostly from small retailers.

Really, I have collected the most indiscriminately during the 21c product boom that lasted from 2004 to 2007.
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