as in, I am now pacing the floor. I got my map ordered. I wanted it on vinyl or cloth, but 100 bucks shipping nixed that, so it's going to be on paper at 4 by 6. I have a sheet of clear vinyl the same size I'll put over it, so I can mark on it with china marker or the like...
Up right now on ebay is the original incarnation of the Britains 4.7in Naval Gun. this was a model of a Boer War naval gun, and this toy is the early version with a broad flat spring that gave it tremendous shooting power, it was greatly reduced in the later versions with a coil breech spring so as to minimize the physical destruction the gun wrought on metal figures. In this version it often knocked heads off figures, and of course this is the precise toy that H.G.
