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Commentor Name:	Joseph Lena
Comments left:	I remember it was my 6th birthday (Aug 1969)and my aunt drove me to the local toy store to pick out something. Well, I went home with my first two Mini Planes: the B-25 Mitchell & the Stuka. Then it got really interesting...My friend next door got lots of cool toys because his dad worked at W T Grants (remember that store?) and Sammy gave alot of them to me. I had a Japanese Hein "Tony" & the "Emily" floatplane. I soon had a Jolly Green Giant and had my other 2 friends come over to play war games on the porch. Then they were buying Mini Planes too.I had an old green felt covered plywood plank that we played on with little $.25 gumball machine tanks & trucks. Eventually I had a shoebox full! I too, did detail work; painting wheel hubs silver, etc. I even mixed in some diecast planes and 1/144 scale plastic kits That I built. If I had only held on to them! I gave the box to my grandmother for the Cornwall Thrift Shop. I often wonder what became of them... Fourteen years ago I started a new (adult)collection. It began with 1/18th scale diecast cars then 1/43rd, then planes and tanks. Mini Planes had to be included of course and now I even have the first two I ever got (the B-25 & Stuka) in their old boxes. They are in the company of 2 Tonys, an Emily, a Zero, a Lysander and a Ju-88. There's also a ton of 1/144th scale WWII aircraft by everybody! and diecast too. I even found some pewter WWII planes on ebay! There's still much to do but maybe over the winter I'll build and display everything. I really got into Japanese WWII types and have almost everything in tiny model form; some having come in chocolate candy eggs! These are Furuta Japanese candies that have a prize inside. Inside the chocolate is a plastig egg which, when opened, reveals prepainted, snap together, TINY! models) I have two of the twin float seaplanes that were stored in the really big Jap subs. These come with a bomb and tiny stand. And these are realistic models! I have the Meteor, the Do-335, Me-110, Jack fighter, etc.etc!I'm proud to show off my collection. Any questions? feel free to email me at: Joe250GTO@msn.com Thanks, happy hunting, Joe
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