A piece of tank history: the fm/21

[Hammers]

Glynis says it's really quite cute.
But not as cute as the little Renault bath ducks.

Although, it does have a towing hook - would it pull a family caravan ?


Nice paint scheme. Is this an official Swedish army pattern or the Hammers family paintjob ?

T'aint the boys this time, although noting is safe from the Crayons of Doom in the hands of Fiver, son of Hammers. Swedish panzer camo is a sort of muddled spray on black and brown over green. Not sure when it was introduced. Now days it is a black, tan green splinter job, popularly called 'the compost heap' pattern.

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Prompted by the picture we've just looked to see what else we could find about it and turned up this nifty little film :



Do some of them have fishing rods on the back ?

Wonder if the driver of the one that got stuck driving through a barn got into trouble....

They are indeed fishing rods. And the square thing at the back is a wicker picknick basket. These tanks form the backbone of the Trouting Regiment (Princess Astrids Own). They were renowned for their hatred against agrarian architecture.

[Tobsen77]

I started a wip thread...

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=19256.0

Tobi

[AndyG]

Hi

Just got back from the Partizan Show where HLBS had previews of the next Copplestone interwar vehicles on display. No prizes for guessing that one was a LK II.

I thought the other was listed as an american T12 but can'nt find anything vaguely like by googling.The nearest thing looks like a Soviet T12 from 1928. Kicking myself for not writing the details down.

[Hammers]

And here it is:



It is almost spooky how often you can start a topic on something obscure and then see it realized just a few monts later.

Sorry Tobsen, he beat you to it.

There is a an American interwar tank to:

[dampfpanzerwagon]

There was an interesting modelling article in one of the EFV modelling Magazines, where the author had written a brief history of the German Tank and how it had been used by 'other' forces, I think Turkey prior to WWII.

Sorry bur not sure of the magazine number.

Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

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A rigid person would claim this thread belongs in the domain of Jim Hale and his Interwar since none of the tanks mentioned here saw any action in the Great War.

[Schogun]

It is almost spooky how often you can start a topic on something obscure and then see it realized just a few months later.

Then let me officially start a topic on a 1/56 scale Lanchester armored car. (Old Glory's is too big.)

[Tobsen77]

Sorry Tobsen, he beat you to it.

Seems so

Nice model!

Tobi

[commissarmoody]

What model/make is the American tank?

[Centaur_Seducer]

Seems so

Nice model!

Tobi

No worries Tobben. Since we both support the same football team I'll by my two from you

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I have put the Copplestone kit together but I can't figure out where one of the pieces is supposed to go. Its a t-cross muffler looking sort of thing... Does anyone know?

[Westfalia Chris]

I have put the Copplestone kit together but I can't figure out where one of the pieces is supposed to go. Its a t-cross muffler looking sort of thing... Does anyone know?

Could you post an image of the piece in question? That would possibly be helpful.

[andekmcc]

I have put the Copplestone kit together but I can't figure out where one of the pieces is supposed to go. Its a t-cross muffler looking sort of thing... Does anyone know?

Not entirely sure what your talking about but the 3 accessories you get with the tank are 2 machine gun options (maxim and schwarzlose) and the rear step/towing bar.  The schwarzlose was fitted on the Swedish tanks the maxim would be used for hypothetical German units.

hope this helps 

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Now I get it. *makes firing finger pistol to temple gesture* What I took for a solid T-cross piece is actually a Maxim HMG on a sprue. Well, I am in for the Schwarzlose option so into the lead bin it goes.