Reciprocation

A bit of history here with some models that are about to depart for foreign shores.  They are all around 1/76th scale.

 Plastic Nebelwerfer, unknown brand.  (#139)

 T70, from the Skytrex/Hinchcliffe 20mm WW2 range (#156)

 BA64 again from the Skytrex/Hinchcliffe 20mm WW2 range (#148)

 Three Schwerer Whermachtsschlepper from Roco Minitanks code DB6M (could be DBGM).  

They have drop down sides, but don't have whatever it was they were mounting.  

I had thoughts of using them in some kind of Nebelwerfer unit, 

but never progressed beyond thinking about it in twenty years.

An early 1990s visit to Brockhurst Models in California

 resulted in random purchases of all sorts of things.  

Sadly never even opened.

RAFM 6859 RSO German Tracked Truck.

Same visit picked up this with the same outcome.

RAFM 6860 75mm IG18 German Infantry Gun.

Skytrex/Hinchcliffe 20mm WW2 range purchased mail order with living memory.  20/43 is a limber and I was disappointed when I realised I had no suitable horses (I had a crazy idea to use the ones from the Airfix French Napoleonic Artillery set, but they would have been too small).  20/42 is... I forget.  Along with the T70 and BA64 I think I was just getting samples rather than any specific plan.

Thankfully they are about to find a new home with the Archduke Piccolo.  Bon Voyage and may you serve faithfully.

Tiger Tiger

Today there has been a visit to the lead mountain, but I'm not sure what the collective noun for the accumulation of plastic kit conversions that now languish in various boxes and containers. 

In going through Military Modelling magazines I came across this article:

Then I thought, I did that conversion.  Do I still have it?  I was expecting to find it my spares box(es), but it was there with my other collection of Tiger Tanks (one Minitank that I'd painted up the same and three of the pre painted models you can get now a days, which includes one which is radio controlled - Dragon Armour I think).

 Hand painted tools as well as transfers.

Sadly barrel is needs a 90 degree twist.

 Some use of plasticard (very rare back then in Adelaide for a 14 year old).

Plenty of use of plasticine as Miliput and equivalents were also hard to get.

Don't know what happened to the Panther road wheels. 

 I don't think I had them and probably used something that I subsequently detested and ripped off.

The paint colour is Humbrol Khaki and probably way too dark for the yellow colour it should be, but I like it.  Some of that weathering is actual real dust and grim.

And as a supplementary, here is the Roco Minitank which I painted up to match.

 Okay, so I got the numbers round the wrong way.

But look, the hatch opens!

Beautiful model, pity it wasn't to scale with Airfix kits.