Give Me a Gun or Somethin'! The Monster's At the Door!

[bigbud]

Hep....no cardboard insert inside...I'm bettin it had one, but I don't see how it fit...the helmet has to go in at a weird angle to fit in the box...really cramped. DL, the Steve Canyon helmet is soooooooo  cool! I had one as a kid too. I have kept my eyes open for one through the years, but there is always a flaw that keeps me from buying. Usually wear to the helmet/visor, ratty box, or twisted mal-shaped or broken chin straps..........Curse, the Thor is one of my sculpts from my "Carnival Chalk figure" period.

[bigbud]

Here is another head piece for the well groomed back-lot warrior....this is a Marx Top Kick D.I. (Drill Instructor) hat. Doesn't say Marine Corps., but the emblem is definitely Marines, and from one who been-there seen-that, this is in the exact shape and look of a Marine Corp. D I hat (cover). On a large and beautiful card. Never seen another one of these on the card. Original cost...43 cents. The hat is very fragile. I'll bet few of these lasted more than a day of neighborhood kid war.

[Fester]

Thanks for the write-up Fester. I remember Pop telling me they flew Trans-Atlantic once. Had to land on a tiny spec in the middle of the ocean. When they took off it was off a cliff! 

Sounds like he had a stop over at Bluie West One.  It was an airfield in Greenland.  You approached it by flying up a fjord for about 50 miles, sheer cliffs on both sides, lots of twists and false leads to cope with--in fog or low lying clouds.  Then you landed on a gravel and steel plank runway 5000 feet long by 145 feet wide (a C-47 had a 95 foot wingspan-- the C-46-- 108 ft not much room to spare.  The runway started at 12 feet above sea level and finished at 100 feet ASL where it met the end of a glacier.
The base had a tugboat which was used to tow icebergs out of the way of the planes taking off.
Today it is known as Narsarsuaq Airport.

The other Trans-Atlantic specks were Goose Bay Labrador, and Reykjavik or Keflavik in Iceland. the most likely one involving cliffs would probably be BW-1.

The Transatlantic ferry pilots were amazing guys.

[jimm]

Thanks Fester, if I recall correctly they left N Carolina and his destination was Africa, so not quite sure where that island stop was.

[Hepcat]

Here then are photos of some of my warplane model kits:

[bigbud]

Always loved that Dam Buster with ........."the secret bomb"! Kids had to buy a kit like that! Secret bomb! Wow! Nice box art on em all. Hey Hep! Maybe we could get up an aircraft model kit threat...ya think?

[Hepcat]

Sure! I have many more aircraft kits I can post.

[Paladin]

Here then are photos of some of my warplane model kits:

I have a ton of planes but I never got the dam buster.
Great kit of a great plane.

[Dr. Madd]

My mauser Broomhandle, made from a tic tac box, a binder clip, two ink pen barrels, three popsicle sticks, two rubber bands , an eversharp pencil insert, and a cut off piece of yard-sale wooden signpost. Am Now painting it. . It does actually fire, albeit not repeating. All those colorful things in the tic-tac box ammo magazine are airsoft pellets. It breech loads. You pull the rubber band over the end of the popsicle stick on the reciever, remove the eversharp pencil insert, put your ammo in, replace the insert and put the band over the eraser of the insert. To fire, aim, pull back the insert and release. It breech loads because the barrel sometimes sticks.
What can you expect when you make a pistol out of office supples and hold it together with tape and hot glue.

Sometimes when you want a toy gun a certain way, you gotta do it yourself.

[bigbud]

Wow Doc... that's some creativity!

[Paladin]

We'll get the aliens and zombies with Tic-Tacs... their physical structures could never handle these colorful mints!!

That's actually very well thought of- good job. 

[Dr. Madd]

It's now painted- metallic black and wood grain brown

[Paladin]

very cool

[Scatter]

.........says it "Fits All Head Sizes"...fraid that does not include Scatter and me..............ha!

Speak fer yerself circusboy...........you got a head like a bowling ball. Complete with holes.

[bigbud]

Scatter...ain't you sumpin'!   Ha!