Where do collectors hail from? (1 Viewer)

[thebritfarmer]

Hi Konrad,

I lived in Germany for a spell. I lived in Osnabruck, Bielefeld and also in Munster. Germany has to be one of the nicest countries I have ever had the pleasure of living in. I hope to return back someday for a holiday.


Scott

 

[kogu]

Hi Konrad,

I lived in Germany for a spell. I lived in Osnabruck, Bielefeld and also in Munster. Germany has to be one of the nicest countries I have ever had the pleasure of living in. I hope to return back someday for a holiday.


Scott

Hi Scott,

very glad to hear that you liked it over there. I was actually born in a little village not far away from Osnabruck.
My next trip to Germany will be in July. My kids (12 and 14) want to see where I was around when I was a teenager. Have to do careful planing so they don't learn about everything I did .

Konrad

 

[The Lt.]

Currently living in Kittery, Maine born and raised in Massachusetts

 

[VIRIATO]

Hi Scott,

very glad to hear that you liked it over there. I was actually born in a little village not far away from Osnabruck.
My next trip to Germany will be in July. My kids (12 and 14) want to see where I was around when I was a teenager. Have to do careful planing so they don't learn about everything I did .

Konrad

Hi Konrad,
Been to Germany myself ( quite a while ago now...), one of the times I was very well impressed with Bavaria and crossed to Austria: very nice, warm helping people, both in Munich and Vienna, very beautiful places. Also visited Cologne and other Southern parts, but not the North...

Regards,
Paulo

 

[Scott]

Gloucester, Massachusetts. The United States.

 

[joesgis]

USA - Huntington Beach, CA

 

[The General]

Ireland born and raised.
Molloy.

Me too until the age of 4, then the family moved to Oz.

 

[1879fanatic]

How about, in order, NJ, Illinois, NJ, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, DC and now New Jersey , again(where the Brady Clan slapped down its roots after jumpin' off the boat. Mike

 

[Rob]

Born and raised in Hertfordshire England.

Rob

 

[lancer]

maryland, born and bred.

 

[Molloy]

Me too until the age of 4, then the family moved to Oz.

Apologies, only just noticed that! Excellent, always nice to stumble across someone else from around these parts! Whereabouts in Ireland are you originally from??

Cheers,

Molloy.

 

[The General]

Apologies, only just noticed that! Excellent, always nice to stumble across someone else from around these parts! Whereabouts in Ireland are you originally from??

Cheers,

Molloy.

A small town named Mullingar in County Westmeath.

 

[Cardigan600]

Yo Trooper, Mullingar is not that small anymore. I live just up the road in Longford, go to Mullingar quite a lot, so your a Paddy/Ozzie now have you ever been back. Had a oz guy staying next door for two weeks he has just gone back, the Guinness was to much for him lol.
Bernard.

 

[Molloy]

A small town named Mullingar in County Westmeath.

Very nice! Where in Oz do you live now? Yep, I'd have to agree with Bernard, a trip back home is a must if you haven't already done it!

Cheers,

Molloy.

 

[The General]

Yo Trooper, Mullingar is not that small anymore. I live just up the road in Longford, go to Mullingar quite a lot, so your a Paddy/Ozzie now have you ever been back. Had a oz guy staying next door for two weeks he has just gone back, the Guinness was to much for him lol.
Bernard.

Yeah went home in 2000. All my relatives live in Ireland. One of my uncles retired from the Guards in 2000 and one of my aunts is a nun.

 

[The General]

Very nice! Where in Oz do you live now? Yep, I'd have to agree with Bernard, a trip back home is a must if you haven't already done it!

Cheers,

Molloy.

I live in Sydney in the beachside suburb of Coogee. It's a few beaches south of Bondi Beach.

 

[Molloy]

I live in Sydney in the beachside suburb of Coogee. It's a few beaches south of Bondi Beach.

Very nice! A couple of the lads were over there allright during the summer holidays last year and had nothing but good things to say! Haven't managed Oz yet myself, but it's definitely on the agenda at some stage between now and finishing up in college.

Cheers,

Molloy.

 

[theBaron]

I was born and raised in Germany. Got an opportunity by my employer to move to the U.S. in 1995. It started out as a 3-year contract. That is now long time ago and I got stuck here. Love it
Offerings and interest in the 54mm or 60mm full-bodied metal figures are by far not comparable with the market here in the U.S. for example, but over in Germany there is still a high demand for the early composition or later hard plastic Elastolin Hausser figures in the 70mm scale, as well as the hard plastic 40mm Elastolin Hausser figures. Both lines, 70 and 40mm, are still distributed as kits by the railroad scenics supplier "Preiser". The 70mm figures can also be purchased as painted figures, but definetely do not match the originals by Hausser imo.
The Flats were the main Toy Soldier Style in Germany for many, many decades and are still popular.
Hey Brad (The Baron), learning here that you spent a while down in the South (of Germany that is) explains now that you have a true Bavarian accent whenever you garnish you posts with some German sentences.
Hope you liked it down there.
We would have never met though, cause I am a "Preiss". The Bavarians consider anybody north of their border as "Preiss" which means Prussian.

Prost miteinand!
Konrad

Servus, Konrad! Verzeih bitte die verspätete Antwort, Du hast ja recht, ich hab mich recht wohl in München gefühlt, zu der Athen an der Isar, wia’r an Fisch im Biersee, ko’ mer sag’n. Und wenn Du a Breiss bist, ja mei, da ko’ man nix dafür, oda dageg’n, gell? Mia san halt ois Sammlerfreinde beisamm’.

Ehrlich gesagt, habe ich Sprachen studiert, also, auf der LMU war ich derzeit Germanist, habe auch einen Schlußauftrag zum Thema, “Ein Vergleich der süddeutschen Autoren mit denen der deutschen Klassik”, also, Thoma und Hesse mit dem Goethe und Schiller zu vergleichen. Eine Vorlesung um anderthalb Stunden, und einfach klasse! Was die Germanistik bei uns betrifft, weiß man gar nix vom Thoma Ludwig, was eine Sauerei ist, mein’ i, Meiner Meinung nach, ist er der deutsche Mark Twain, weil er schon vom Volke ist, auch Humorist war, der auch mit a bißerl Ironie geschriem hot. Aber auch aus der heutigen Zeit, habe ich z. B, den Rosendorfer mit dem Graß verglichen. Die Großen der deutschen Literatur sind ja schon oft tierisch ernst, da muß man eben was von einem Lausbub lesen, sonst kommt man aus der Fassung.

Falls Du Dich je in Bethlehem befindest, schau mal vorbei! Jetzt ist schön, der wo es fast Sommer ist und ich jetzt auf habe im kleinen Biergarten hinter dem Hause. Franziskaner gibt’s, aber auch Yuengling!

Prost, beianand!
Brad

 

[1879fanatic]

Brad,

Nothing beats warm Yuengling on the beach with some sand on the rim! Mike

 

[theBaron]

Brad,

Nothing beats warm Yuengling on the beach with some sand on the rim! Mike

Pfui! That's foul!

Actually, I can't stand Yuengling and only drink it, when there's nothing else. The corn malt gives me a headache. It's good for cooking hot dogs, though.

I almost went to work there, though, back when they were expanding into the new facility. I was leaving banking and thought about becoming a brewer. But I kept it strictly at the home-brewer level.

Prost!
Brad