Small Scale Military Headquarters

I went to a local Toy Soldier Show this past weekend. The show is geared towards King and Country and Vintage toy soldiers, but a few 1:18 pieces show up now and then. This year I hit the jack-pot. Here is my haul.

21st 1:18 Winter Panther, NIB (Box is Trashed) $25.00

21st 1:18 Kubel, NIB Box was trashed and one of the front tow hooks was bent. $8

21st 1:18 Kubel, No Box, Mirrors, winshield, or Shovel. $10 Now being repainted, as a battle worn DAK vehicle. $10

Maisto 1:18 Hummer missing Antenae $10

21st 1:18 Sherman and and Winter Half Track, a little dust, but otherwise mint, and the guy through in a Battle of the Buldge Driver NIB, $58 for the lot

I missed a 1:18 Gate Jeep, for $6.00. If I was just a minute or 2 earlier

Last year at the same show I scored a 2 cases of 1st issue 21st Vietnam and Germans for $50.

WOOOT! lol.
Be sure to post pics of your customs!

GREAT SCORE !!

Fantastic Score!

I would love to see what you do with that Kubel with the missing windshield. Mine is missing it's as well and I need to come up with a solution. Great scores by the way!

YT wrote:I would love to see what you do with that Kubel with the missing windshield. Mine is missing it's as well and I need to come up with a solution. Great scores by the way!

Mine had a scratch in it so I made it a bullet hole crack.

WOW!
I haven't heard anybody come across this much XD in a LOOOOOOOOOONG time! Plus the prices you paid were INSANE!
Congrads!

Excellent finds, particularly the Kubelwagens! I wonder if the winter panther in the trashed box is the one I sold on eBay last year and which UPS lost

Your finds seem to be just the latest in a series of XD finds various board members are making at toy soldier shows, small retailers, hobby stores and the like

I just had bit of a score myself at my local Hobbytown USA store finding a number of XD Halftracks and Pak-40s for under $30, a Motorworks diecast Tiger for $50, as well as an M-48 and 88mm gun for $60 each. Never mind the few BBI Helos and JSI items. I couldn't resist the diecast Tiger and a couple of the halftracks

nice!
i sure miss those exciting days visiting the walmart toy section

NICE HAUL you got there wish i was that luckylove to get hold of the winter panther over here

Your very lucky, nice haul, in my area they don't have any type of Toy military shows, plenty of gun shows , of course thats another vice that one should'nt get involved with

YT wrote:I would love to see what you do with that Kubel with the missing windshield. Mine is missing it's as well and I need to come up with a solution. Great scores by the way!

Your solution is to get a hard top from the Woofer, (the hun)
cut out a piece of clear plastic and make posts for ether side of the window then sandwich it in and wala!!

i remember when those winter panthers were collecting dust on our shelves almost gave them away. wish i had them back now

Jnewboy wrote:

YT wrote:I would love to see what you do with that Kubel with the missing windshield. Mine is missing it's as well and I need to come up with a solution. Great scores by the way!

Your solution is to get a hard top from the Woofer, (the hun)
cut out a piece of clear plastic and make posts for ether side of the window then sandwich it in and wala!!

I came up with a solution last night. I used my good Kubel's winshield to make a template. Then traced the template on some old gift cards I had laying around. Then with an exacto knife I cut 2 pieces the exact shape of the windshield out of the gift cards. Then I measured out the width of the window frame, and cut out the center of each of the card stock shapes. I sandwiched a thin piece of clear plastic between the two cardstock frame and had a nice little windshield for my Kubel. Now I need to figure out how to make the wipers.

I wish I had another Kubel to make a template! Sounds like nice work. I used styrene to make wipers for my Dragon Wagon, pictures are on here somewhere...

For wipers, I used very thin U- and T-shaped brass rod I got from a train modeller and steel wire. Work is going on for my BBI Black- and Pave-Hawk, hope to post some picks very soon.

*jaw drops*

I was just thinking about toy / antique shows ... specifically if these toys were starting to show up, and dang, those are great deals!