What's your favourite military vehicle?

[fsn]

There were M110, Centurion, M113, and Patton, Panther and a few others - Quad and 25pdr.

[fred.]

The ones I first had came with the Beach Defense and Bunker playsets - which came with some WWII stuff (troops, bunkers and DUKWs) and various post war stuff such as Centurions and Pattons, plus a self propelled 155mm.

Later I remember getting individually boxed ones, like pictured, and these were often far my useful for WWII gaming, Sherman 76s, Tiger I, 25pdr, German 50mm and half-track. They were very tough models - if not the most accurate.

[Roy]

This is much more like it. Excellent stuff chaps. Incidentally that was not a sentence as it did not contain a verb. However, as this is not an English lesson, and I do, in fact, know what constitutes a sentence, I don't care that it doesn't contain a verb. It is how I wished to express myself at that particular point. Now, should the Grammar Gestapo appear I am quite ready to tell them to flog of; the Spelling Gauleiter got here first.

Yes, sorry Leman, it suddenly dawned on me after I'd left the forum I'd misread your comment.

Is a pony a form of vehicle...?

[Heedless Horseman]

I may be the one and only voter for the AIRFIX Churchill VII.    
A b****r to put together as a kid, but once you got it right, (cut the tracks!), you had a TANK!   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

The soft plastic Airfix APC is actually an FV432 - round hatches. And it looks like someone never discovered the trick to the Airfix Churchill - the bogie wheels on the sprue are spaced to exactly fit on the suspension units, glue, let dry and trim.

IanS

[Orcs]

There was an Elephant and Truck with anti tank gun. Both very rare.  I had the an unboxed Elephant and sold it to a collector for £35 about 10 years ago

[Wulf]

Going back to the DUKW - 3 of those at one point were converted to tour busses and at one stage they were in Glasgow - part of the tour was a dip in the Clyde and a quick trip Doon The Water. Never took that tour, but the crew showed no surprise when I and a couple of other prople approached them when it was parked & asked if we could crawl underneath and look at the suspension...

Apparently one of them had patched up bullet holes in the internal watertight partitions...

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

One sank in Albert Dock, and another caught fire in the Thames.

IanS

[Leman]

I quite like the German field kitchen.

[cameronian]

I offer that Friend ODP was referring to this offering. No glue involved.

When I was a kid the ferry from rhubodach to colintraive (mainland Argyll to Bute) was a landing craft, the DUKW was laid up on the beach in Rothsay, great fun to play in.

[Orcs]

 I like

British - Matillda 2
German - SDKFZ9 Famo
Russian - BT 7
Polish CP7 tractor
Italian Pavesi Tractor

[toxicpixie]

The soft plastic Airfix APC is actually an FV432 - round hatches. And it looks like someone never discovered the trick to the Airfix Churchill - the bogie wheels on the sprue are spaced to exactly fit on the suspension units, glue, let dry and trim.

IanS

F--------------f--------------f------------------------f----------------------f---FUDGE IT!

Seriously?!

I might have completed the one I had as a kid if I'd realised that! Nearly put me off model building for life, that did

[fred.]

One sank in Albert Dock, and another caught fire in the Thames.

Some 50+ years after they were built - and built to wartime specs too.

There was an Elephant and Truck with anti tank gun. Both very rare.  I had the an unboxed Elephant and sold it to a collector for £35 about 10 years ago

I had the Elefant - might have a check if its still kicking around. I did sell a few of this range for good money a few years ago.

[Westmarcher]

F--------------f--------------f------------------------f----------------------f---FUDGE IT!

Seriously?!

I might have completed the one I had as a kid if I'd realised that! Nearly put me off model building for life, that did

If its any consolation, I also struggled with the Airfix Churchill. I seem to recall that lining up the bogey wheels was very fiddly if your aim was not to glue them so that they would roll freely.   

(I think my plan became unstuck - or should that be "stuck" - when I couldn't satisfactorily join the tracks together or something, so ended up gluing them!)

[toxicpixie]

I think I just stuck half the bogies on then gave up in frustration.

DUKW - there was one used to go across the harbour to the castle in Jersey, it was ace! Bloody loud. No chance of a stealthy insertion with that...