Own up. Who suggested reading "Generals Envoy"

[Luthaaren Von Tegale]

Fan-bloody-tastic!

That's a great model svenn. At first I thought it was the Zaamurets - the rail cruiser.

Pilsudczyk was the state of the art mid/late 1930's Polish train which , if I recall had two such artillery cars sandwiching an armoured loco. Check out this link for more info;

http://derela.republika.pl/armtrain.htm

I think Pociag Pancerny means "armoured train", at leats I'm sure pancerny is "armoured" as the Polish armoured troops were "bron pancerny".

Looking at your wip pics it looks like you're building up and down from the footplate level - best way to ensure all the subsequent vehicles line up.
I guess from the above comments I'm out of the closet - yes I'm a railway modeller too!

Again Svenn - great work, can't wait to see the full train.

                                vT

[Mancha]

here are a couple of shots of wip

Man, people who can make these frameworks out of plastic card amaze me.  Nine times out of ten I can't even cut a square from the stuff!

Thanks for the additional pics.

[sukhe_bator]

Amen to that Mancha,
why do you think I model medieval castles etc. - NO RIGHT ANGLES!
Seriously though. I'd love to be able to scratchbuild vehicles etc. I've always fancied doing an Garford-Putilov gun car or an Austin-Kegresse in 15mm but they are way beyond my capabilities

[Orctrader]

A complete inspiration from start to finish.  Excellent work.

[odd duck]

Great Model!!Love IT :-*You should read the forth book in the series it has airships!!

[tsar1701]

Can't find any words ... 

why do I play other period ? It is a waste of time 

[Mr.J]

That is amazing! I've just started reading the novel and that is exactly the kind of thing that springs to mind, seriously cool!

[ace67]

okay youve hooked me what novel and who writes it
if the book inspired that great model im interested in reading it
cheers
ace67

[Svennn]

Thanks for all the great comments - you are egging me on to finish the engine and even start another gun carriage but I just cant find the time at the mo'.

The book is "The Generals Envoy" by Anthony Conway. Its part of a series around a character called Caspasian and I would recommend it. I have not read any of the others which I believe are set in other locations but have seen many good words written about them. Think Flashman in the early 20th Century.

Svennn

[Keith]

Books great (thanks for that Svenn)!

This project, however, is outstanding - directly responsible for my new collection of odd Chinese pirates, soldiers and explorers

[Mr.J]

The first in the series, the Viceroy's Captain, is set on the North West Frontier, the Second, The General's Envoy, is in China and the Third, which I haven't read yet but is waiting for me to get to, is The Colonel's Renegade and is set in Egypt. I think that's all of them but I'm not sure, I can't find any more and the only place I managed to get them was Amazon.

[Poliorketes]

There seems to be another, the brigadier's outcast

[Mr.J]

Yeah you're right, just found it. Apparently the series was dropped after that one, despite a 5th manuscript being in completion and plans for 20+ novels. How dissapointing!

[Driscoles]

fantastic  work.