Thank you, I'm happy that you enjoyed it.

Hi Paul, the stug is Classic Toy Soldiers; I don't know if they are currently available, a quick search reveals that many of the usual sources are out of stock on the stug.

@mannie1952 Thank you for helping me with this. I was beginning to believe that CTS never made a Stug😄. I have been looking for them on eBay and online for months... No luck. I have come to find out that BMC bought the mold from CTS and It was lost with a few other molds during the move. So these are going to be SUPER RARE now. Congratulations 👍🤳

@@paulbarbacano1109 That's quite a saga, it reminds me of all the lost Louis Marx molds out there. Best wishes, Mannie

Just as I wish you were mine :-) Thanks for the kind comments.

George, Thank you for the very kind words. Marx playsets were in full-flower when I was a kid. In 1962 or 63, my parents got me the Giant Blue and Gray set, and a couple years later a Desert Fox set. We also had a second-hand Fort Apache from the late 1950s. I also had the 6" knights and vikings (six each). The play-value of Marx toys was exceptional, and my folks, though of modest means, saw Marx playsets as a good value for the dollar. Thanks for tuning in and for the nice comment. Mannie

@@mannie1952Very welcome. Thanks for responding. It's great to sare experiences with the great toys of the early days. For me it was from 1974 and onward. I still love collecting toys but not so much in soldiers. Although I have a limited amount of model soldiers to put together. Mostly these days I love Aircraft models. If I had that mountain with the guns back in the day it would have been great. I never even had any forts or Castle. I just used cardboard as a playset in my time. I had a thing about cutting out shapes into vehicles and sticky tape. Had plenty of soldiers not many of Airfix but lots of copies that we're made in Hong Kong. They were just as good.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️

@@George-pp2hr George, for me it was those old carboard milk cartoons; I'd cut off the bottom two-thirds, and what was left was a little house with a peaked roof. The imaginative mind of a child makes for great improvisation.

Sir what you have done here with the original Marx set is nothing short of outstanding. The additions you created are brilliant, especially the anti-aircraft gun on the mountain coupled with the bunkers simply awesome.

@@FraserMitchell-k4j Thank you for the very kind words.

Thank you, I'm truly living my best life.

Hello. I made them from scratch, carved from the Tamiya 1/35 brick wall sections.

It does!

Thank you...it gives me immeasureable delight.

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Hello Paul. You can reach me at [email protected] I look forward to hearing from you.

Back in days gone by, roads would be built for which a toll would be charged to travel upon. When entering the road a toll had to be paid. One would pay one's toll at a booth, next to which, was a long pole, or "pike" that stretched, as a barrier, the width of the road so as to block the road. When the toll was paid, the toll-collector would "turn the pike" to allow the wagon to pass through. The term stays with us today, especially for toll roads.