Administrators Clunkmeister Posted February 7, 2023 Administrators Share Posted February 7, 2023 This might get some participation. 😀 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 What's gonna be the name, I SPY ?  Everything surveillance and  reconnaissance ?  7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Â 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BlrwestSiR Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 I could up for this. I've got a PCM XIX conversion started and plan to do another as an FR XIV. Theres also a Revell MkII with the AIMS conversion for a Merlin PR Spit. Anyone got an Academy F/A-18D for an Atars nose? Kinetic make one in 1/48. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 How much conversion work to make this kit suitable? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Paint it white and build the pod out of your old microwave  3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 am I stretching it ? 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted February 8, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted February 8, 2023 Well, it was meant as a joke, but this COULD be out next GB. Meanwhile, once my floatplane is done, I might need to do a schnellboot. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 7 hours ago, Clunkmeister said: Well, it was meant as a joke, but this COULD be The big Italeri one with loads of AM………in Hubert’s favourite scale…….. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerWomble Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 "Recon" gives you any number of really nice armoured cars to build , or light tanks . 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 I think this is the best I could do.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerWomble Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Could be 'owt ? recon aircraft, recon vehicles , recon ships even . ....or space bawooons . Jus spitballing here.   EDIT - I've not done a Puma ....some nice Normandy hedgerow scenarios there ..... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 31 minutes ago, PanzerWomble said: Could be 'owt ? recon aircraft, recon vehicles , recon ships even . ....or space bawooons . Jus spitballing here.   EDIT - I've not done a Puma ....some nice Normandy hedgerow scenarios there ..... My mojo is feeling pretty low this week...  hard to even imagine doing one at the moment. Can't even imagine making a hedgerow. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted February 8, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted February 8, 2023 3 hours ago, PanzerWomble said: "Recon" gives you any number of really nice armoured cars to build , or light tanks . I’d say it’ll be a go later in the year. This is a GREAT theme. Even the S-Boot would fit in.  It was a scout and recon platform. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted February 8, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted February 8, 2023 What were those Canadian WW2 Chevrolet scout vehicles they used. Those were cool as well.  I was thinking maybe of the Staghound? I know Ford made some cool light trucks as well, as well as White with their M3A1 scout car.  You’d run in to them in farmyards all over Western Canada and the Western States. Even the odd Kübelwagen and Kettenrad. Farmers bought them by the thousands as they were surplussed after the war. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 15 minutes ago, Clunkmeister said: What were those Canadian WW2 Chevrolet scout vehicles they used. Those were cool as well.  The Otter? I think Mirror Models do them in 1/35. Edit: yup they make an Otter. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belugawhaleman Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 17 minutes ago, BlrwestSiR said: The Otter? I think Mirror Models do them in 1/35. Edit: yup they make an Otter. Polish maker IBG also makes an Otter in 1/35 and one in 1/72. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 2 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said: The Otter? I think Mirror Models do them in 1/35. Edit: yup they make an Otter. So Canadian...  it even has a chimney. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerWomble Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 8 hours ago, Clunkmeister said: I’d say it’ll be a go later in the year. This is a GREAT theme. Even the S-Boot would fit in.  It was a scout and recon platform. Could even go extra sneaky with an S-boot ....we used them post war for spy insertion into Soviet Europe. S-130 and S-208 had moved to Rotterdam in May of 1945 and eventually were taken over as British war prizes following the German surrender. Why the crew did not destroy their vessels is curious as German forces across North West Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands all surrendered on May 4th, 1945. The British took a number of German ships, including S-130, back to England so, in late May 1945, German delivery crews, supervised by British seamen, brought their vessels into Gosport, England. As they were to be used unarmed, the torpedo tubes were deactivated and closed and the cannon unshipped to reduce weight. Two additional fuel tanks were installed in order to increase operating range and radar and radio direction gear were fitted for her new clandestine mission role. S-130 had her 3 x Maybach 501 V-20 series diesels were replaced by three state-of-the-art Napier-Deltic diesels rated at 3,140PS each. This new lease on life gave the S-130 a speed of 45 knots, an increase of about 5 knots over her original German engines. She was attached to the British Baltic Fishery Protection Service, a cover for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI-6), using the now-converted S-130 to ferry spies and agents into Eastern Europe. In May of 1949, the converted S-130 and S-208 were used to insert agents into Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland against the Soviet Empire. Source  2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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