What's your favourite military vehicle?

[Roy]

'Bout time we had something other than a bloody boring tank!

This any better?


"A rare surviving example of a world war ii japanese military bicycle with original wartime rubber"


"To the victor go the spoils: Sgt. Harry Huff, of Charleston West Virginia" [165th Infantry]

[Westmarcher]

Or this?

.... well ... OK .... so it flies ...... but it says it's a car!    

[fsn]

Welbike?


Kettenkrad?


Military Unicycle?

[Leman]

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.

[Techno]

Welbike?

Good grief......In my mid/late teens, I can remember spending a rather fruitless afternoon  with 'the gang', trying to get one of those to run again.
(If it wasn't one of those, it was something almost identical......Was it something used by the Parachute Regiment ?)
Cheers - Phil

[O Dinas Powys]

Based exclusively on the old Airfix soft-plastic model which graced many a bath-time amphibious exercise, the DUKW/Duck 

[fsn]

Good grief......In my mid/late teens, I can remember spending a rather fruitless afternoon  with 'the gang', trying to get one of those to run again.
(If it wasn't one of those, it was something almost identical......Was it something used by the Parachute Regiment ?)
Cheers - Phil

Yup. Could be dropped in a parachute container.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welbike


They did have one at the Assault Glider Museum new Shrewsbury. Along with a Horsa Glider.

Was shown around by a chap called Richard Head.

[Westmarcher]

Based exclusively on the old Airfix soft-plastic model which graced many a bath-time amphibious exercise, the DUKW/Duck 

Mine fell apart. 

(the warm water 'melted' the glue!)   

[fsn]

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

[Westmarcher]

Oh yeah! I remember these! My pal used to have that one (or something similar). Did they do Pershing Tanks as well?

[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.