List of vehicles coming in 2012!

[catgunner]

Sorry about jumping straight in with out no intro.
I am 65, grey haired, ex squaddie and have a thing about armour, having spent 10 years in them + TA.You could say I have been lucky. Being in one of crews picked to shoot in the 1970 'CAT Shoot' (Canadian Army Trophy), the last time we won, if you go to Canadian Army Trophy, there is a video of the 1987 shoot.  Also a Leopard 1 crewmen.
A publican for 20yrs, a fall down 13 concrete cellar steps ended my working life.

I am not a war gamer as such, 'N' gauge model railways is my weakness, it just happens to be German and the periods covered happends to be the mid 1920s to the late 60s. 
So its mobile flak batteries, armoured trains, troop trains and tank/frieght transport to the front.  With a little bit of civvie trains now and then.

By the way the Mk 7 cent is a totally diffrent hull, the rear has a changed along with vented engine and transmission decks.  Mk 8s is a 7 with a gun mantlet has change + minor changes. which became a Mk 12.

The Isrealies Mk 5s had an engine change to one fitted to M48 also the engine decks look like the M48

[Hertsblue]

Hi, Catgunner. Nice to hear from you. I was beginning to think I was the only sixty something on the block. 

[Techno]

Bog off !!
I'll be joining you in a little over a year Ray !
I wish I was still in my 30's...(40's would be fine too !)
Creaking all over (to the tune of 'Shaking all over') - Phil.

[toolsey]

Hello Leon ,

Good news about new  vehicles.

Re CMP 15cwt

Which CMP cab is it , the early one or later , the later cab is already available from other makers, I would love the early version because of the different conversions possible with that model if it comes open topped.
Very usefull for the Desert

Cheers
Toolsey

[Gran76]

Any chance of having some scramblers/motorbikes for Falklands range

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

Without revisiting the absence of Pz III G/H with 5cm L42 gun for Balkans/Desert/Barbarossa has anyone got a picture of GR127 Pz III J to see if I can easily convert it?

Regards

Edward

[catgunner]

Hi Hertsblue, Techno and Edward, as for being 60 + years old, it is only figures, it is how young your mind  thinks problems through from experience that matters.  I know this to be true because my mind, writes cheques my body can't cash.

Edward your question about pictures of the Pz 111 late varients, have you thought about Bovington Tank Museum.   I found them very helpful.  I heard about the SPATG from a friend (I know phone a friend),  It was a chieftain varient that was minor joint project with the germans.  A 'Jagd-Chieftain' called 'Chemerier', only 1 prototype built to test the german engine in a chieftain hull. They (bovie) had pictures and drawings, the drawings looked like a 120mm gun in a stug 111 casement, on a chieftain hull.
Try David Fletcher (curater) at Bovington.  I found him very helpful.

Regards to all, (and keep your heads down)

Maurice (Spud) Tait 

[catgunner]

Hi, I just thought of a 'chuckle' that we did in the late 60s.  One of our troop was getting married in the UK, so we sent him a telegram to be read at the reception. Telegram read:-

Before advance remember to T & A (test & adjust)
Check bore clearance
Advance to contact
On contact, Engage.
Conserve ammo for long engagment
When ammo expended, Withdraw

Hope this made you chuckle

Regards


Spud

[Steve J]

Very good .

[nikharwood]

Like it, Spud, like it 

[Hertsblue]

 

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

Edward your question about pictures of the Pz 111 late varients, have you thought about Bovington Tank Museum.   I found them very helpful. 

I go to Bovington once a year or so and I'm OK (I think) on the key differences between the various Ausf (recognising that there were retrospective changes etc in various cases - one of the Panzer IVs at the museum is a case in point IIRC). 

My real question was too see a picture of the Pendraken model (GR127) to see what the particular J model has on it - the J changed mid production from a short 5cm to a long 5cm gun. The J also featured addiitonal spaced armour which differentiated it from the earlier models.   However I've realised I have a GR127 myself which I compared to the L's I have as well as to the various photos.  The Pendraken GR127 has the long L60 5cm KwK and the mantlet and the barrel shape are different for the L42 5cm KwK mounted on the Ausf G/H and early J so my hopes for self-modifying GR172 don't seem to be good. 

Regards

Edward

[Hurrah]

WWI / AVBCW
Seabrook Armoured Car

I like very, very much.

[Leon]

Just to update, the LVTP-7 arrived with us at the WMMS show, and it looked awesome.  I should really have taken some pics, but it went straight off to get moulded, so we'll hopefully have it back here soon.

[nikharwood]

Just to update, the LVTP-7 arrived with us at the WMMS show, and it looked awesome.  I should really have taken some pics, but it went straight off to get moulded, so we'll hopefully have it back here soon.

Excellent - looking forward to seeing these 

[Hertsblue]

Just to update, the LVTP-7 arrived with us at the WMMS show, and it looked awesome.  I should really have taken some pics, but it went straight off to get moulded, so we'll hopefully have it back here soon.

That should please the Falklands buffs at least. 

[Luddite]

No sci-fi vehicles?!!   

[Raider4]

No sci-fi vehicles?!!   

It's all depending on your viewpoint. If you're doing 1930's based AVBCW, then a Centurion, T55 or LVTP-7 are science-fiction ... 

Cheers, Martyn
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[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

LVTP-7 is an easy convert for Sci-Fi. Odd vehicle to do first - the Cent and T55 series would be more popular perhappes.

IanS

[Luddite]

It's all depending on your viewpoint. If you're doing 1930's based AVBCW, then a Centurion, T55 or LVTP-7 are science-fiction ... 

Cheers, Martyn
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There's nothing about AVBCW that could or should be described as 'science'!   

Well, except for Heath Robinson science i suppose...


Of course historical vehicles can be kit bashed (especially for things like Wierd World War Two) but far better to have proper sci-fi models...

Ah well...maybe 2013 then?