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Title: British Tube 1 (VSF)
Post by: Dr. The Viking on 10 January 2011, 01:19:27 PM
My British VSF forces will be using only vehicles made out of tubes. As any Londoner will know the conundrum goes:

"Anyone who ever went anywhere, went so at least in part by the tube"

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_YgOzHmVzYc0/TSsG4KzVNYI/AAAAAAAAC8w/ABylGexHH5g/s512/P1190092.JPG)

I'm already in the process of making more tubes.
Title: Re: British Tube 1 (VSF)
Post by: Malamute on 10 January 2011, 01:25:09 PM
Great fun. Looking good already :)
Title: Re: British Tube 1 (VSF)
Post by: rob_the_robgoblin on 10 January 2011, 01:26:55 PM
Where do the batteries go?   ;D

Seriously though, I like it, looks pretty cool!
Title: Re: British Tube 1 (VSF)
Post by: Dr. The Viking on 10 January 2011, 01:35:27 PM
Where do the batteries go?   ;D

Seriously though, I like it, looks pretty cool!

While I resent your juxtaposition of my splendid creation with a ... I'm willing to give you that there is no obvious way of getting coal or water into it.

I think I'll add two different lids to the back and write "coal" and "water" over them.
Title: Re: British Tube 1 (VSF)
Post by: Dr. The Viking on 10 January 2011, 04:36:12 PM
I'm quite in doubt about what colour to paint it?

I'm leaning towards bronze or brass... but then again - that's a bit boring isn't it?

Blue is out of the question. Green too. And white is a pain in the x.

The infantry will be grey like the Sudan British.






Title: Re: British Tube 1 (VSF)
Post by: dijit on 14 January 2011, 03:29:07 PM
As I said over the weekend, a dark green with red or white pin striping along the edges; if you look at a lot of late victorian, pre-war steam engines they're often a dark rich colour (green or red seem to be favourites)with a line painted in a contrasting colour just inside the edges.
Duncan
Title: Re: British Tube 1 (VSF)
Post by: Johan on 14 January 2011, 03:53:43 PM
if it is VSF you couldn't go wrong with black and brass trimmings.
These vehicles could easily have been made by a former locomotive builder.