Tag: vehicle

• 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

• Austin Armoured Car – Part Three – Ready For Duty

  

  The commander of Uszhitmi Aerodrome can rest easy – the Austin armoured car is now fit for deployment on the perimeter of the field. Whether this will deter intruders from getting in or defectors from getting out is a matter of conjecture. In any case the car is adorned with a patriotic slogan so whoever…

  Dick Stein

  September 2, 2022

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Decals, Military models, Painting, Ukrainian models

  Soviet, Ukrainian models, vehicle

• Austin Armoured Car – Part One – Tovarich…

  

  No, I am not going to go looking for a 1:72 model of Lenin. The Austin A/C is destined for Uszhitmi Aerodrome as perimeter protection. Not that anyone would want to go there to attack it. Uszhitmi is where they send people who are exiled from Siberia. It was a last minute pickup from Hobbytech…

  Dick Stein

  August 31, 2022

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Military models, Ukrainian models, Uszhitmi Aerodrome

  Soviet, Uszhitmi Aerodrome, vehicle