FEATURE
BIG BOYZ TOYZ
WAR & PEACE 2011
Those of you that know Ratty, from BadgerTac, will also know he is one
of the few people to get a Challenger airborne, so who better to let loose on
a series of articles entitled Big Boyz Toyz?
S
ome of you may be asking
yourselves what relevance,
if any, this series of articles
has to airsoft? The answer,
in reality, is fairly simple:
we all love kit! Let’s face it, we all
lust after equipment of all shapes and
sizes, whether it be the latest airsoft
rifle or pistol, a new camo pattern or
even a new style of pouch. Big Boyz
Toyz is essentially the next step in the
procurement process.
As a small boy I, like many others, was
fixated with military hardware I had
seen in films and on TV. Who can forget
Oddball’s Shermans in Kelly’s Heroes, or
the Hueys from Apocolypse Now?
Some years later I was sat in the Army
Careers Office watching a film of trades
available. As soon as I saw a 60-tonne
giant tearing up the battlefield, it was
obvious that was where I wanted to
end up. During many years’ service in a
tank regiment I was, still am and forever
will be fascinated by military machines,
whether they be on land, in the air or on
the sea.
When I first got into airsoft, back in the
mid-90s, with my then-business Airsoft
Adventures, I managed to convince my
business partner that what we really
needed for our game site at Greenham
Common was a military vehicle. We
picked up our NI spec Humber Pig from
a car dealer in Buckinghamshire. It was
in a bit of a sorry state after being used
in a film, but it ran and drove well. After
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