> Tony wrote:
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The ex-Matchbox (now Revell) Chaffee is a great model to convert to SF.
Leave the track guards, suspension and hull sides off and the hole can be
plated over with a single piece of plastic card. You can either
decorate the blank side with blowers (the exhausts from a 1/72nd AV-8*
Harrier would work well) or just leave them blank and you'll have a very
respectable 15mm scale tank. The turret shape is rounded so it doesn't look
too WW2 and because the Chaffee isn't often recognised outside of WW2 buffs
you won't have everyone walking up to the table telling you they know what
your conversions were based on...
> On 8/29/05, Thomas Barclay <kaladorn@magma.ca> wrote:
> I just looked over the real thing (an M24 at the new Canadian War
IIRC the Chaffee was the very first tank model I ever tackled as a kid, so
I've always had a soft spot for it. But I also STR that during the opening
stages of the Korean War, they were the only tanks opposing the NK's and got
their butts handed to them by the
Communists' T-34's.
They're not a
> bad shape, though the turret shape doesn't follow modern turret
Modern!= Future, and you can always come up with some PSB as to why that style
of turret comes back into fashion at some future time.
It depends a
> bit what crowd you have - I'd have more chance of slipping through
The problem I have with doing that is that because they're modern, they're in
the news, not just the history books, and more likely to be recognized.
Of course, with
> one of the guys having taught UN forces AFV recognition, he pretty
That's scary. Cool, but scary.
Hollywood has thought it was easily disguised by grey paint and some germanic
crosses too
- look, slap on some paint and you have a Panzer IV! (Yeah, as if...)
At least it was a bit more realistic than an M47 Patton standing in for a King
Tiger facing Chafes as M4 Shermans (case it made the M47s look bigger)....)
Not to mention that the prairies of Kansas look nothing like northern
Europe..(Battle Of Bulge 1965.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058947/
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> <dmaddox1@hot.rr.com> wrote:
You know, I have been doing my damndest to try and forget that movie.
:-( I
get this terrible pain in all the diodes down all* my sides every time I see
it. :-(
Mk
* - vs just the ones down the left side