The US fought the British in WW II!

[M.D. Holloway]

Well, according to Our Sons "Battle of the Coffee Table", the brave US took on the Brits in warfare that had a direct throwback to the Revolutionary War tactics!








now proof of who is who...








The battle waged on into the night until a third force much more powerful than the two combined intervened and put a stop to the madness...the Mommy Effect!

[futuresoptions]

Man buy your kid the tan ones and the gray ones please......

[on2wheels52]

I didn't see any BAR's on the table; trench warfare was probably about that scale distance.
Jim

[Super_Dave_D]

The green guys are clearly German. The third pictues clearly shows the use of potato masher's, K98's and fourth guy on the front has a mp40 (or 38 if you want). Th officer carries a luger. Yep -clearly Germans

[MFAFF]

As ever the British are the ones wearing the shorts....

But I agree the greenies are Germans...

[sammyg2]

Those things look funny when they are not dripping little flaming balls of molten plastic

[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by on2wheels52

I didn't see any BAR's on the table; trench warfare was probably about that scale distance.
Jim

Your right! Funny thing, my ol Man was a BAR man in WWII. Gave him an extra $6 a month in pay. Of course he paid for it during the Battle of the Bulge with a motor shell in his fox hole...

[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by Super_Dave_D

The green guys are clearly German. The third pictues clearly shows the use of potato masher's, K98's and fourth guy on the front has a mp40 (or 38 if you want). Th officer carries a luger. Yep -clearly Germans

Looking closer at the helmets and so forth I do believe you are correct. I will have to spend some time with Our Son and go through some of the details. He will actually like it.

Thanks and good eye!

[Super_Dave_D]

Also tell him to space out his officers a little more - dont want one artillery round to come in and wipe them out. Funny how you can still buy those army men - they havent changed in 40 years. I guess the still use the same molds.

[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by Super_Dave_D

... Funny how you can still buy those army men - they havent changed in 40 years. I guess the still use the same molds.

Looking at the quality or lack there of, plenty-o-flash on each. I bet they are the very same molds of 40 years ago!

The Dollar Store sells them by the bag full. cheap, fun and provides endless hours of war fantasy. I guess we really haven't gotten paste the vicious primate stage in our development have we?

[futuresoptions]

Originally Posted by Super_Dave_D

The green guys are clearly German. The third pictues clearly shows the use of potato masher's, K98's and fourth guy on the front has a mp40 (or 38 if you want). Th officer carries a luger. Yep -clearly Germans

Yeah Daves right those are Jerrys, used to be gray back in the day as I remember..... many a roman candle was taken apart by yours truly for realistic war time action..... lost my eye brows once when I decided to take apart a couple of those happiness fountains for added effect..... sure was fun though.....gasoline was substituted when fireworks was not available....

[Super_Dave_D]

I always thought they left that extra 'flashing' on them so they would light easier!!

[Super_Dave_D]

Growing up in the 70's - i had the M-16 version Army men

http://www.thortrains.net/armymen/newpic04/timm16a1.html

[M.D. Holloway]

The definitive website for plastic army men....

http://www.thortrains.net/armymen/index.html

[futuresoptions]

Used to have some that were hand painted plastic on metal bases. You would have to go to a real toy store to purchase them and I think they were about $3. a piece and that was back in the late 70's early 80's.

[Dan in Pasadena]

As a kid my "good" uncle bought me a little kit that came with an oven to make your own army men. I burnt my fingers on it I don't know how many times. Of course they'd never sell that today.

It didn't take long before we were casting the wounded and dead! We'd just not squish any of the green slime that came in clear envelopes into the head part of the mold or into the legs or something - instant maimed or dead soldiers. Gruesome little suckers we were. I can't remember the name of that toy but it was cool. This would have been sometime around 1965 or so.

[Drago]

What, you've never heard of the Pig War that occured up here in the San Juan Islands?

[M.D. Holloway]

edjumacate me peez

[72doug2,2S]

Ze luk like zez guyz, Yah?

[Drago]

Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

edjumacate me peez

Well, not exactly WWII but it did happen:

http://www.nps.gov/archive/sajh/Pig_War_new.htm