A. When it's an aquarium ornament! On a recent fell walking break in the Lake District I wandered into one of those great big out of town retail estates that pop up in the most unexpected places (it really was in the middle of nowhere, I'd give you the map grid reference if I'd thought to keep a note of it). Anyway, this one had a massive "pets_and_everything_else_in_the_world_R_us" type store so I went in because I always like to check out the aquarium ornament section in case it it has anything I can use for wargaming - this time I realy hit paydirt
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The Tiger tank is a little small for 54mm figures but the Hanomag and truck are just about right, the crashed pane is quite large and would probably fit well with 7cm composition figures. There was also a rather super sunken battleship sporting lots of combat damage which could probably have been painted up for WW1 or WW2, sadly it was displayed in a fish tank which was so dark I couldn't get a decent picture of it. It would have been ideal as SMS Konigsberg in a Rufiji Delta scenario that I've had in the back of my mind to play these past few decades but try as I might I couldn't bring myself to part with £45 for it and at two foot long it wouldn't go in my rucksack! Ho Hum.
Amazing find...I love the fact that the Steyr seem to have been overloaded with a whole companies personal equipment when it 'went down', what will they think of next and what the hell do the fish make of it all!!
ReplyDeleteA Steyr! I've been racking my brain to remember what it was called, even the mighty Google strugles to give an answer when all you can offer it for a prompt is "German WW2 truck". Many thanks MC.
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