Tag: armoured vehicles

• We Regard You As Innocent

  

  Until someone suggests you could be guilty. A big local scale model exhibition seems to have attracted a very unusual visitor: A 1:1 scale replica of a motor vehicle from 80 years ago. It was parked in the front of the Cannington Exhibition Centre on the second afternoon of the show. I did not see…

  Dick Stein

  August 20, 2025

  design, finances, History, Model cars, Modelling exhibitions, prototypes

  armoured vehicles, German army, scale model show, vehicle

• S.P. – Part Three – Chassis

  

  I have to keep reminding myself that I am basically playing with a dollar coin here. The kit is progressing well, with a club day spent making wheel and tyre assemblies and getting the running gear on the chassis. The top casing fits down with perfect precision, so it can be finished separately from the…

  Dick Stein

  November 11, 2022

  1:35 scale, design, frugality, Military models, Model cars, Modelling Club, Polish models, Scale Models, subassembly

  armoured vehicles, chassis, Polish model

• Sandown Park 2019 – Part Two – Tanks For The Memories

  

  I am not really an armoured vehicle person as yet. It is not an aversion – just a lack of attraction. Perhaps this will alter in the future, though I hope I will not have to step to yet another scale if I do try it. 1:72 and 1:76 seem to be rewarding enough. I…

  Dick Stein

  June 19, 2019

  camouflage, Colour Schemes, Military models, Painting, Weathering

  armoured vehicles, plastic models, Sandown Park, tanks