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Land / Re: M41 Walker ''Bulldog'' Light Tank

« Last post by ChalkLine on Today at 06:20:31 PM »

I've currently got one in my 'to-do' box along with new tracks (which is packed because I have to move AGAIN) and I'm tossing up doing the following for my 2000AD post WW3 builds:

- M41 w/ M103 105 mm Howitzer from the Spanish M108 SPGs. This will be done up as a direct support SPG for dealing with bunkers and applique armour in Spanish NATO livery.

- M41 w/ scratch-built Thyssen-Henschel 'Tanque Argentino Mediano' turret in West German* livery. Either Bundeswehr or Bundesgrentzshutz. I'm a bit unsure about this because the 105mm L7A3 cannon is four times heavier than the M32A1 76mm gun and I'm not sure if the chassis wold stand the firing shock.

- SOmething else my fevered imagination comes up with.

(*I know, but in this scenario there's still a West Germany)

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Stories / Re: Sabre Dingo

« Last post by elmayerle on Today at 03:48:02 PM »

I have vac-form fuselages for the TF-86, F-86D, and CA-27.  I am tempted to splice together bits from these to do a Sabre Dingo fuselage.  One apporach I was tempted to use is use RTV to clone these, cast copies, and cut and splice those to do a Sabre Dingo fuselage.

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Land / Re: Royal Australian Marines Vickers Medium Tank Mk.II*

« Last post by Old Wombat on Today at 12:30:34 PM »

I just wish I could work out what I need to click/change to get this site to open images from http: sites, like WiM & others do.

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Land / Re: USMC M151 FAV

« Last post by Jeffry Fontaine on Today at 12:22:38 PM »

With a bit of paint that M151 really looks the part.  Are you planning to mount your gun system on the TOW structure? 

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Land / Re: USMC M151 FAV

« Last post by LemonJello on Today at 09:26:16 AM »

Primer is on.

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Swords to Plowshares GB / Re: Swords to Plowshares Completed Digital Models

« Last post by GTX_Admin on Today at 08:51:53 AM »

Greg, your url went wonky ...
-- https://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=11063.0url

Fixed.

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Land / Re: Royal Australian Marines Vickers Medium Tank Mk.II*

« Last post by Buzzbomb on Today at 07:08:26 AM »

Be a speco paint job.

Did it on a Takom Mk1 build, it takes some time, but looks really good.

on the link business. You might find some browsers baulk at http because it is considered insecure (needs to be https) and perhaps the browser settings may inhibit access.

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Land / Re: USMC M151 FAV

« Last post by Buzzbomb on Today at 07:04:37 AM »

Great news.

This really is a case of "..it is alive" after rising from the shelf 'o Doom

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Aero-space / Re: BI-1 Missile

« Last post by Buzzbomb on Today at 07:02:53 AM »

Great combo.
Using the 88mm Flak carriage is a terrific idea

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Aero-space / BI-1 Missile

« Last post by Robomog on Today at 06:51:53 AM »

Hi All

You know I finished on of these recently........



Which left me one of these........



Without a canopy and a nice set of ramjets which I am setting aside for a possible future project.

It came close to going into the Draw of Possibilities, ..................then the brain cells collided.

What if the Russians got the rocket plane to work reliably and started production, then....

What if the factory gets overrun by the Germans including a large number of stored  aircraft,  and........

What if the Germans decide that the aircraft is still too dangerous to fly safely (this is before the Me163 and before Germany became exceedingly  desperate for wonder weapons) , also.......

What if some clever guy suggests turning them into unguided missiles by removing the cockpit, undercarriage and weaponry,  then adding a warhead, stabilising Gyro and some rudimentary timers and cutoffs like the V1. But........

What if they decide it needs to be mobile to reduce the chances of it getting destroyed on the ground.

A very tenuous string of events which I'm sure is fatally flawed but this is the basis for this build.

Here's the starting point......



The topdecking has been cut back level with the canopy line and filled with sprue sections and fillered over.



I've acquired a half track and 88mm gun trailer from my old 1970 something stash with the intention of adapting the trailer as the launcher.

The half track has been cut down to the floor line,  I intend to build this back up as an armoured command cab.

That's the story so far, more when it happens

Mog
>^-.-^<