Looking very good Jon.
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Hi Jon takinhg advatege & being cheeky here is my build of Scimitar & Scoprpion.
They are actually war games models relatively simple 1/48 all resin.
Added a lot to give them some reality. They are part of a 15 piece to form a diorama of those pieces
of equipment used by British Forces in the Falklands Conflict 1982. These are the only 1/48 I could find.
Looking at your build with great interest.
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Thanks a lot Scottie and Ian.
Scottie.Seeing as you used to crew these things I'm relying on you to point out any mistakes or omissions :smiling:
Hi Laurie.Thanks for posting the pix.lovely models.I do like your Falklands work.You can see some of the mods and additions needed for a Falklands Scimitar-made a lot easier with the Scorpion Models sets.Not so simple at 1/48!
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Thanks Jon very nice comments & much appreciated.
They are little darlings I really enjoyed building them. Did you know these machines can do 70mph
although I read that 50 mph was the max norm . Appeared at 70mph not many of the crew survived
the torture on tank terrain.
Laurie
A little fun so funny. The indigenous population of the Falklands.
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Nice update Jon. The build id coming along really well.
Laurie - When my daughter was serving in the Falklands she enjoyed playing with the penguins on the beach! :smiling2:Comment
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A member of the SBS,sitting in a COP, apparently nearly gave himself up to a large enemy patrol until he realised he was looking at penguins!
Thanks Steve. Still picking up little details from the few photos I 've found.Like the transmission breather cowl and the rolled canvas covers for air intakes.
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Just love it Jon. if you visit Canary Wharf as it hits dusk look across from one side of the Canal to the other all the financial workers
on the patios standing around all look like penguins in their black suits.
As it goes in The Nightingale Barcley Square song. Cos I was there.
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I have thanks Steve but I've noticed a couple more things looking again at these.
The first photo shows a couple of boxes stowed on the right track guard,forward of the bed rolls.Don't know what they are. Paradoxically the Scimitars,from what I've read,didn't carry 30mm Rarden ammo boxes but Scorpion did! You can see the Scorpion in your 4th photo carrying them.Any ideas what they are?
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I would imagine they are mortar boxes Jon. Possibly 81mm??Comment
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81 mm mortar rounds came (come?) in plastic containers that consist of two tubes with large screw tops, attached to each other with moulded-in bars and with a carry strap and handle:
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This one, you mean?
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I don’t think that’s what’s in the first photo you posted of the Scimitar. The box there appears to be much smaller, but let’s see if we can work out if it is
The box pictured above contains three sets of the double tubes; those tubes are 54 cm long (I just measured the one I own), and a quick bit of measuring in Photoshop then tells me the box they’re in is about 65 cm long. Hull length of a Scimitar is 497 cm, and that makes the boxes in the first photo (those immediately in front of the bed rolls or sleeping mats or whatever they may be) about 30 cm long, give or take an error margin of course.
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Those two boxes look slimmer than the 81mm mortar cases to me.Can't see anything similar on any other photos so maybe just temporarily stowed.
thanks for the input.
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Jeez this modelling lark hurts my brain LOLComment
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