Spots on the Internet 2020

[Guest]

To find a decent SU-122, you can begin here and continue here for a lot of extras, many of which will also fit the SU-122

[Dave Ward]

With the Trumpeter & HobbyBoss websites still being down, it's more difficult to find out what is being released, but I have seen this
The US Navv's first aircraft carrier
Dave

[Dave Ward]

On the Rye Field Model Facebook page -'available soon'


On the KP website, 2 unusual models 'coming soon'

The bottom is the Sopwith Scooter ( Monoplane No.1 ). Both had Camel fuselages, but different wings...................
Dave

[stillp]

I always like 'workable track liks'! :smiling5:

Edited: damned autocorrect!

[Mr Bowcat]

I like the look of the Sherman, lickable tracks or not.

[Dave Ward]

On the Meng Facebook page
Apparently the G2 had the fittings for a maintenance crane - so Mend added it to the G2

On the AFV Club Facebook page - soon available


The guntruck certainly out of the ordinary - a M113 hull mounted on the load bed of the truck - was this a one-off? Maybe just recovering a M113 badly damaged?
Dave

[PaulTRose]

With the Trumpeter & HobbyBoss websites still being down, it's more difficult to find out what is being released, but I have seen this[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1115575[/ATTACH]
The US Navv's first aircraft carrier
Dave

for some reason, just lately ive been drawn to having a go at some floaty boaty things, and carriers in particular.........i like that

[Guest]

The guntruck certainly out of the ordinary - a M113 hull mounted on the load bed of the truck - was this a one-off? Maybe just recovering a M113 badly damaged?

No and no The US Army built several gun trucks this way during the Vietnam War — you could call them the third-generation gun trucks. The first had simple armour plates on the cab and sides, the second generation often had double plates and more elaborate kit (the only surviving real one, Eve of Destruction, is one of these), the third had a gutted M113 put into the load bed. A very good source about this subject is the book Gun Trucks by Timothy J. Kutta (Carrollton: Squadron/Signal, 1996; ISBN 0-89747-359-0).

Looking through that book, I find photos of ones named:

• King Cobra (the kit’s subject)
• Sir Charles
• Big Bad John
• King Kong (off the truck, but obviously from a gun truck)
• The Big Kahuna
• Two side-by-side with names not visible in the photo
• One whose name I can’t read
• Budah the Greek God (M113 reversed on the load bed)

I’ve been wanting to build a model of one for twenty years or more, but never did get round to it. First because of a lack of 5-ton trucks, but after AFV Club released a kit of one, I still didn’t actually begin on one.

[Dave Ward]

Paul,
I liked the look of the Langley - she was a converted collier! I looked at the price, just under £90 at the cheapest - a bit rich for me!
Dave

[PaulTRose]

Paul,
I liked the look of the Langley - she was a converted collier! I looked at the price, just under £90 at the cheapest - a bit rich for me!
Dave

too rich for me too

i remember reading a book about escort carriers a very long time ago and always found the subject interesting ever since

[stillp]

With the Trumpeter & HobbyBoss websites still being down, it's more difficult to find out what is being released, but I have seen this[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1115575[/ATTACH]
The US Navv's first aircraft carrier
Dave

You can see why they called them "flat tops"!
Pete

[Dave Ward]

MiniArt produce a set of pigeons - just had an email shot from FoG Models............
3D printed! - Yes, I had to look to see if it was April 1st.
Dave

[Guest]

MiniArt produce a set of pigeons - just had an email shot from FoG Models............[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1115722[/ATTACH]
3D printed! - Yes, I had to look to see if it was April 1st.
Dave

There are two from the original series in the water on my Chieftain Bridgelayer base setting.

[Guest]

MiniArt produce a set of pigeons - just had an email shot from FoG Models............[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1115722[/ATTACH]
3D printed! - Yes, I had to look to see if it was April 1st.

At the model show I went to last week, some Belgian radio-controlled boating group who were also heavily into 3D printing, had half a dozen or so sharks, whales, etc. some 20-30 cm long. Remote-controlled swimming models of fish …

[Dave Ward]

The HobbyBoss & Trumpeter websites are at last up again, but haven't been updated yet
Dave