Small Scale Military Headquarters

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.

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.

Mine was either the S1 German Tiger or S1 ME 109 from TRU. My latest is the ME 109 from BBI.

Oops... my bad . I forgot about the BBI 109 that is my latest.

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.

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

phil

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

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

Mine was that ugly first version of the 21st Century P-51.

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

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.

S1 panther and sherman tanks.

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.

Good memories and little did he know what he started.

TTT

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.

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).

First was the 21st Huey gunship. Second was the S.1 Stuka. Sadly is nose-dived and the windshield shattered.

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.

My first? The S1 "Kepford" Corsair by 21C....and my latest? The CL-13 by AT.

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

My first XD was a lone german soldier that I so named Kurtis Von Wolf. 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.

BBI P-51 "Old Crow"

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...

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.

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

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.