Got some money for my birthday, so I treated myself to this and some filler.
From John in the shop, and a quick delivery even with the postal strike.
From John in the shop, and a quick delivery even with the postal strike.
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Is the kit that bad? 
Odd choice of box art, though: if it includes the M35 gun system:
… why not show the side that has more than just the ammo bin for it?
Odd choice of box art, though: if it includes the M35 gun system:
… why not show the side that has more than just the ammo bin for it?
I think they just put the PE and resin parts in the old boxing, saves money.Is the kit that bad?
Odd choice of box art, though: if it includes the M35 gun system:
… why not show the side that has more than just the ammo bin for it?
Another big one picked up 
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That’s the thing: the M35 gun system was not just the gun, but also a streamlined ammo bin on each side above the skids:
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(from Bell AH-1 Cobra by Mike Verier, Osprey, 1990)
The box art shows that bin on the right-hand side, so they didn’t just recycle a painting from an AH-1G without the M35.
Maybe they wanted to keep it a surprise.
The kit looks quite good I'll get some sprue shots up later.
Arrived today :smiling4:
Hasegawa plastic with Cartograph decals, I’m very pleased.
Geoff.
Hasegawa plastic with Cartograph decals, I’m very pleased.
Geoff.
..... And so you should be Geoff!!
I particularly like the look of the Marauder... very nice
Interesting pair. I think they carry the same bomb load capy.
An EVRI delivery
Reboxed Pit-Road. Ebay auction - not one of the cheaper wins ( at least by my standards ) :tongue-out3:
Dave
Reboxed Pit-Road. Ebay auction - not one of the cheaper wins ( at least by my standards ) :tongue-out3:
Dave
Will I never learn?!
It's a card model. 1/250 scale, about a foot long.
I know HMS Hood is still to be finished, but I can't resist buying more torture and hair pulling. These things have it in spades!
Cheers.
Ron
It's a card model. 1/250 scale, about a foot long.
I know HMS Hood is still to be finished, but I can't resist buying more torture and hair pulling. These things have it in spades!
Cheers.
Ron
Hi everyone,
With recent developments by one of our members and his now almost completed new work area, I began to have serious doubts about his capacity to think straight and focus on what he, in his heart, truly loves the most........I felt I had to purchase this kit (against my rules) with the hope it would bring him back to reality and keep him on the straight and narrow.........'Admiral' Bob, remember these!!!!!!
HTHs BobtheStuG!!!!
Prost
Allen
With recent developments by one of our members and his now almost completed new work area, I began to have serious doubts about his capacity to think straight and focus on what he, in his heart, truly loves the most........I felt I had to purchase this kit (against my rules) with the hope it would bring him back to reality and keep him on the straight and narrow.........'Admiral' Bob, remember these!!!!!!
HTHs BobtheStuG!!!!
Prost
Allen
You are so right Andy!!! The Martini scheme does look good on any racing machine.................
A few years ago I aquired nearly all editions of the wartime, fortnightly newspaper the war Illustrated, and having bound all my Mil Mod magazines I was going to bind these into 10 volumes. however I have not been able to find all of the missing editions, and I found a seller on Ebay selling a boumd set, which arrived today.
what
i really like about contempory books is that they are full of stuff not included in later history books, photos such as policing in Manchester during the blackout;
or articles such as one man's thought on being conscriped;
Of course, it is a little biased, but I can spend hours reading them, and getting ideas for models - a bust of that policeman?
Peter
what
i really like about contempory books is that they are full of stuff not included in later history books, photos such as policing in Manchester during the blackout;
or articles such as one man's thought on being conscriped;
Of course, it is a little biased, but I can spend hours reading them, and getting ideas for models - a bust of that policeman?
Peter
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I have a number of issues of a similar publication from one world war earlier, The War Pictorial, and like you say, they include great pictures (plus a good deal of overly retouched ones) that you never see in modern books about the subject.
Great acquisition Peter. I know exactly what you mean. I have the first volume of a high quality French WW1 pictorial history produced just after the war. Can’t easily read the text, but the pictures are superb. It even includes paintings of the principal French Generals. Wish I could find the second volume…….
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