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Auchinleck -> RE: Just out of interest..... (3/5/2014 8:26:20 PM)
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How I drifted into being fascinated with WWII will probably sound more bizarre than some of the responses posted here. My first recollections were when going to a department store with my parents as a kid, when they went shopping there. While they were buying necessities, I would head for the toy section, which always seemed to bump up against the hobby section, where the exciting plastic models were displayed in boxes, with terrific artist renderings of World War II Battleships, Aircraft Carriers, Cruisers, and Destroyers, along with Tanks, and other models of WWII hardware depicted in action. If I didn't have the money to purchase one, I would beg my Mom or Dad to buy me one. More often than not they told me 'not today'. But, when I did get lucky, I would be rewarded with choosing an American or sometimes German Battleship model, which were a predominant choice of the ship models featured, that I had a strange fascination with at that time. I'd get to tackle a complex (at least it seemed complex to me at the time) model, using too much Testors glue, and often not the best paint jobs, but I would then enjoy setting up the ships on the livingroom floor, pushing them along the simulated ocean carpet, and pointing the big guns, at rival model ships I had completed for simulated broadsides. Later when I got tired of the models, I would take them out to a nearby pond set them on fire and set them adrift, to watch them burn, while belching thick black smoke from the melting plastic, until they sank leaving a simulated oil slick on the surface from the melted plastic. Years later in 1974, The oustanding to this day mini series 'The World At War' narrated by Sir Lawrence Olivier, came to Television, and if I wasn't already hooked on that period of history, I was then hooked!
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