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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: TadPortly on January 16, 2010, 10:25:49 AM

Title: Useful Photo resource
Post by: TadPortly on January 16, 2010, 10:25:49 AM: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7700258@N05/sets/
Title: Re: Useful Photo resource
Post by: Hammers on January 16, 2010, 10:35:19 AM: Very cool. As I peruse the images my wandering minds ponders the strangness of naming a great klunky heap of sheet metal which makes 8 mph on an even road 'Whippet'.
Title: Re: Useful Photo resource
Post by: Plynkes on January 16, 2010, 10:52:55 AM: Because that's twice as fast as the previous tanks could go. By comparison it was a thoroughbred racehorse. :)
Title: Re: Useful Photo resource
Post by: Arlequín on January 16, 2010, 11:45:07 AM: Let's face it, compared to anything not preceeded by a man walking and waving a red flag, these guys were speed demons. The infantry would of course have to jog to keep up with them, not an easy task with a fag or a pipe in the corner of your mouth.
Title: Re: Useful Photo resource
Post by: Hammers on January 16, 2010, 12:24:58 PM: Quote from: Jim Hale on January 16, 2010, 11:45:07 AM
L...not an easy task with a fag or a pipe in the corner of your mouth.

...or facing a line of Maxims, perhaps? :)
Title: Re: Useful Photo resource
Post by: Arlequín on January 16, 2010, 11:36:42 PM: Quote from: Hammers on January 16, 2010, 12:24:58 PM
...or facing a line of Maxims, perhaps? :)

A trifle... facing 600 rpm is nothing compared to risking losing a billiard and half ounce of rough shag.