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Author Topic: NZ Pattern Wheeled Carrier  (Read 592 times)

Offline Fitz

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NZ Pattern Wheeled Carrier
« on: June 06, 2019, 07:37:00 AM »


This was a New Zealand assembled version of the Indian pattern carrier. It differed from the original Indian vehicle by being welded rather than riveted, and it had larger wheels. It shared with its progenitor the flaws of being under-powered, and having quite poor off-road performance, and the New Zealand carrier didn't see overseas service at all until the Korean War, when it was employed as an artillery observation vehicle.

The Indian pattern, on the other hand, saw service in North Africa and in the Far East, and I have painted this one up as one of those in the desert theatre, in a camouflage pattern from about 1942-43.

The model is a 1:100 scale (15mm) 3d print, designed by M. Bergman and printed by me on my Ender 3.

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: NZ Pattern Wheeled Carrier
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2019, 08:08:55 AM »
Nice work.

An interesting model.

Offline vodkafan

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Re: NZ Pattern Wheeled Carrier
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2019, 11:34:11 PM »
Very nice indeed!
I am going to build a wargames army, a big beautiful wargames army, and Mexico is going to pay for it.

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