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Post by Tom on Apr 13, 2022 13:35:58 GMT -5
The nice thing about transferring threads here is that we can revisit them in condensed form. I recall most of your builds but had no idea that you'd already done so many. Fantastic range!
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Post by Scalainjridesagain on Apr 22, 2022 5:30:30 GMT -5
Some very, very nice work Andy! Looking forward to seeing more of your work! Thanks Jerry. Appreciated The nice thing about transferring threads here is that we can revisit them in condensed form. I recall most of your builds but had no idea that you'd already done so many. Fantastic range! Yes indeed Tom. Thanks for your kind words
The M12 Gun Motor Carriage was developed in 1942 combining the in service 155 mm gun which was of French WW1 design with a suitably modified M3 Grant tank chassis. Whilst the Army had no interest, both the Artillery Board and Ordnance Department saw the need and 100 were built. The Army put them into storage and used some for training until they saw the potential and 74 were prepared for the invasion of Europe. Deployed to 6 field artillery battalions, it was discovered they were very effective against fixed fortifications having the ability to penetrate 7 feet of concrete at 2000 yards, and it was nicknamed 'The Door Knocker' and 'King Kong' by its operators due to its sheer power. The design proved so successful that it formed the basis of design for many self-propelled guns postwar, with its own direct replacement entering service in 1945.
Airfix 1/35 - M12 Gun Motor Carriage - The Persuader, B Battery, 557th Armoured Field Artillery Battalion, US 9th Army - Linnich, Germany - February 1945
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Post by Tom on Apr 22, 2022 13:34:53 GMT -5
Hahaha, the persuader... Great build!
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Post by Scalainjridesagain on Apr 24, 2022 4:15:11 GMT -5
Hahaha, the persuader... Great build! I liked that too, so that's the markings i went with Thanks Tom
The Fiat G91 was developed to meet a NATO competition requirement for a lightweight strike fighter that could be used as a standard aircraft by the member countries. There were 6 entries and the after an 18-month evaluation, 3 including the Fiat were selected for prototype testing with the first aircraft taking to the skies in 1956. 1958 saw the Fiat declared the winner and production began, however it only entered service with the Italian and German air forces and more latterly the Portuguese but despite that some 770 were built, entering service from 1960 onwards. The final aircraft was retired from Italian service in 1995, and it is one of their aircraft I have modelled in service with 2nd Stormo in 1977 using an ESCI kit released in 1979 that I picked up for a few quid.
ESCI 1/48 - Fiat G91 R1B - 2nd Stormo, Italian Air Force, Treviso Sant Angelo - 1977
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Post by Tom on Apr 24, 2022 4:20:21 GMT -5
I like that, good looking plane and nice build.
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Post by Scalainjridesagain on Apr 29, 2022 4:35:20 GMT -5
I like that, good looking plane and nice build. Cheers Tom
The Toyota Celica GT-Four was created to compete in WRC where homologation requirements required the building of a specified number of road going versions in order to compete. It would make its debut in 1985 as a convertible concept using the ST165 model, but it went into production as a Coupe in 1986 before debuting as a competition car in 1988 taking its first win in 1989. 1990 was to be its year with a promising second for Carlos Sainz in Monte Carlo. Round 3, the Safari Rally, saw Bjorn Waldegard called up who had won the event previously for Toyota in the Celica TCT along with his co-driver Fred Gallagher and it was to prove the right decision as the pair would take the win by 38 minutes.
Aoshima/Beemax 1/24 - Toyota Celica GT-Four - 1990 Safari Rally - B.Waldegard & F.Gallagher - 1st
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Post by Tom on Apr 29, 2022 5:40:42 GMT -5
One of my favourite rally cars, so this gets a 'like' from me.
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Post by reeft1 on May 4, 2022 1:23:20 GMT -5
Excellent builds
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Post by oldirish33 on May 4, 2022 9:05:07 GMT -5
More outstanding work Andy. If I wasn't so deep into cars, I could see myself building WWII era tanks, artillery and dioramas. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by JSB33 on May 5, 2022 2:55:48 GMT -5
I still think you have a factory hidden somewhere at home, pumping these things out.
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Post by jager on May 6, 2022 20:04:42 GMT -5
This week I’ve been watching the Hornby/Airfix documentary series ‘A Model World’. It’s certainly got me thinking about my childhood kit building again.
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Post by reeft1 on May 10, 2022 16:30:02 GMT -5
I still think you have a factory hidden somewhere at home, pumping these things out. What the boss said
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Post by Scalainjridesagain on May 14, 2022 1:58:32 GMT -5
One of my favourite rally cars, so this gets a 'like' from me. Glad you like it. Thanks Tom Cheers Paul More outstanding work Andy. If I wasn't so deep into cars, I could see myself building WWII era tanks, artillery and dioramas. Thanks for sharing! Very kind of you Jerry. Start down that path and you'll quickly have your own army too! I still think you have a factory hidden somewhere at home, pumping these things out. My own little mini production line This week I’ve been watching the Hornby/Airfix documentary series ‘A Model World’. It’s certainly got me thinking about my childhood kit building again. I thought that was quite an interesting series. I do like an Airfix kit particularly the more recent stuff as it's very well engineered I still think you have a factory hidden somewhere at home, pumping these things out. What the boss said
See above
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Post by Scalainjridesagain on May 14, 2022 2:30:12 GMT -5
So fresh out the factory gates
The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch was designed to meet a 1935 German Aviation Ministry requirement for a new liaison & army co-operation aircraft, and it would win the competition by virtue of it STOL (Short take off and landing) capabilities which were far superior to the other entrants. Designed to be operational from rough fields, coupled with a low stalling speed, the Storch required less than 100 metres to land and take off and in a strong enough headwind it could land almost vertically. Production started in 1937, and it was used in Europe and North Africa till the end of the war and has the dubious honour of being the last plane shot down on the Western Front, the aircraft responsible for the rescue of Mussolini and the last plane to land in the Tiergarten in Berlin. It was greatly favoured by senior officers from all sides and such luminaries such as Churchill, Montgomery and Rommel had their own (the former being captured) and it is one of the latters aircraft I have modelled from the North African campaign in 1942.
Tamiya 1/48 - Fieseler Fi156C Storch - Aircraft of Erwin Rommel, North Africa 1942
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Post by Tom on May 14, 2022 2:39:36 GMT -5
Very interesting and quite advanced for the time I'd say. Nice build!
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