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Joe said:This one I remember clearly reading more than once, it used to stay in the car!
I have a full collection of these & an almost complete spare set & other swaps, that one is my favourite Joe, I even have a couple of tat's from artwork within these, there was a follow on from Deathtrap Dungeon.
Warning - shameless plug! - I just listed my almost complete spare set on evil bay if anyone is interested in the set I can pull the auction & as said I have a load of spares as well if anyone just fancies giving them a go, must have wasted a few weeks of my life playing these.
I remember those Fighting Fantasy books. Used to love them. I cheated as well, anytime I had fight someone in it, I just assumed I won. Never bothered with all that rolling dice or comparing how had the best strength/armour whatever. They were pretty good fun from what I remember. I dare say they would be terrible now though.
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Just wanted to ask how many of you guys grew up with Panini Football stickers in the 80's? Ive started a little collection of those now 
Ive heard that Football 85 packets are rare as hens teeth though :shock: Managed to pick up 81 and 82 to start with,so should be an intersting no SW sideshow.Im trying to build a set from 79-89
Anyone know of any online places that sell sealed packs?
Ive heard that Football 85 packets are rare as hens teeth though :shock: Managed to pick up 81 and 82 to start with,so should be an intersting no SW sideshow.Im trying to build a set from 79-89 Anyone know of any online places that sell sealed packs?
Lee, Pete is a fanatic collector of Panini stickers.
Palitoy78 said:Just wanted to ask how many of you guys grew up with Panini Football stickers in the 80's? Ive started a little collection of those now
Anyone know of any online places that sell sealed packs?
Hey, i'm not a big collector of the football lines but i do know of sellers on ebay selling the 82, 87, 88, 89 packs.
If you're into World Cups i have Panini 94, 98 and 2006 sealed packs. I also have a bunch of loose Football stickers from the 80s but would have to check which ones.
Are there any other Panini lines from the 80s you're into or is it just football?
Pete.
HAHA I had loads of those FF books as a kid that was a real blast from the past! As some of you know i collect Medals as well as SW items, Picked these up today and thought i woud share them with you as i think these are a pretty important piece of WW1 RFC history and the Hermann Goring connection is pretty special.
Pair British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. Budden, R.F.C.)
Footnote
Gilbert Budden was born in October 1890, the son of a school master from Macclesfield, Cheshire, and was educated at Clifton College and Manchester University, where he gained a BSc in engineering in 1912.
By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 he was employed as a mining engineer out in Mexico, but he made his way home and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in April 1915. And going out to France in 12th Field Company, R.E. in July 1915, he would have been present in the Hooge operations in the following month, thereby qualifying for the 1914-15 Star - the whereabouts of which remains unknown.
Transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in the summer of 1916, Budden attended No. 2 School of Aviation prior to being posted as a pilot to No. 70 Squadron in March 1917, but was hospitalised with shock on 23 April after a heavy crash-landing. Returning to duty in the following month, he fought in combats over Menin on the 4th and Roulers on the 5th, while his Sopwith Camel was damaged by A.A. fire during a photographic reconnaissance on the 12th. Budden also participated in ground strafing operations, an attack on enemy transport near Menin being a case in point, when 250 rounds resulted in two lorries colliding.
But his most memorable sortie occurred on 5 August 1917. Norman Franks and Hal Giblin take up the story in Under the Guns of the German Aces:
'Many of Goring's successes occurred in the evening hours and this proved no exception. Ten of Jasta 27's Albatross Scouts took off at 19.45, formed up and headed for Ypres looking for trouble. They found what they were looking for almost half an hour later when they ran into a patrol of Sopwith Camels from No. 70 Squadron. Goring picked out an opponent and attacked. The Camel's pilot seemed anxious to keep the fight above the trench lines and to avoid straying too far over the German side. Goring followed him closely, firing at a range of no more than 50 metres. According to Goring, flames began to come from the Sopwith and, trailing smoke, it went into a spin and was lost in a cloud. The Staffelfuhrer was certain he had shot the Camel down and it seemed his judgement was vindicated when, on 29 August, he was officially credited with the victory.
In fact, Goring's opponent was Lieutenant Gilbert Budden and although he was wounded in the combat and his machine badly damaged, he still managed to land the Camel near Bailleul.'
Declared 'unfit for any service' for many months as a result of the serious nature of the wound to his left arm, Budden returned to instructional duties on the Home Establishment shortly before the Armistice and was transferred to the Unemployed List in September 1919.
Pair British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. Budden, R.F.C.)
Footnote
Gilbert Budden was born in October 1890, the son of a school master from Macclesfield, Cheshire, and was educated at Clifton College and Manchester University, where he gained a BSc in engineering in 1912.
By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 he was employed as a mining engineer out in Mexico, but he made his way home and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in April 1915. And going out to France in 12th Field Company, R.E. in July 1915, he would have been present in the Hooge operations in the following month, thereby qualifying for the 1914-15 Star - the whereabouts of which remains unknown.
Transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in the summer of 1916, Budden attended No. 2 School of Aviation prior to being posted as a pilot to No. 70 Squadron in March 1917, but was hospitalised with shock on 23 April after a heavy crash-landing. Returning to duty in the following month, he fought in combats over Menin on the 4th and Roulers on the 5th, while his Sopwith Camel was damaged by A.A. fire during a photographic reconnaissance on the 12th. Budden also participated in ground strafing operations, an attack on enemy transport near Menin being a case in point, when 250 rounds resulted in two lorries colliding.
But his most memorable sortie occurred on 5 August 1917. Norman Franks and Hal Giblin take up the story in Under the Guns of the German Aces:
'Many of Goring's successes occurred in the evening hours and this proved no exception. Ten of Jasta 27's Albatross Scouts took off at 19.45, formed up and headed for Ypres looking for trouble. They found what they were looking for almost half an hour later when they ran into a patrol of Sopwith Camels from No. 70 Squadron. Goring picked out an opponent and attacked. The Camel's pilot seemed anxious to keep the fight above the trench lines and to avoid straying too far over the German side. Goring followed him closely, firing at a range of no more than 50 metres. According to Goring, flames began to come from the Sopwith and, trailing smoke, it went into a spin and was lost in a cloud. The Staffelfuhrer was certain he had shot the Camel down and it seemed his judgement was vindicated when, on 29 August, he was officially credited with the victory.
In fact, Goring's opponent was Lieutenant Gilbert Budden and although he was wounded in the combat and his machine badly damaged, he still managed to land the Camel near Bailleul.'
Declared 'unfit for any service' for many months as a result of the serious nature of the wound to his left arm, Budden returned to instructional duties on the Home Establishment shortly before the Armistice and was transferred to the Unemployed List in September 1919.
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thats one cool story behind a medal,,i have a big interest in military history but i dont collect anything really.
Hi Imp nut, Glad you like them, I am currently making my way through this gentlemans combat history found numerous pages from the diarys that show him as being in combat on succesive days with numerous types of enemy aircraft but sadly no recorded air victories found as yet, Although he did write off three Sopwith camels crash landing!
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Cool if i was him i would have painted 3 royal flying corps (RAF) roundel kill markings on the side of my own plane.
i remember talking to a Tornado pilot from leuchars in scotland and he had a squirrel kill marking on his GR4 as he had killed one landing, and it got flicked up into the landing gear well.
so hi ground crew dutifully painted on a squirrel as a kill. :lol:
i remember talking to a Tornado pilot from leuchars in scotland and he had a squirrel kill marking on his GR4 as he had killed one landing, and it got flicked up into the landing gear well.
so hi ground crew dutifully painted on a squirrel as a kill. :lol:
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