%20(ii)%20(iii)%20785%20786%20Plastic%20model%20Kits%2017-002.jpg "1 Gribeauval System Regimental Wagon Historex No. 784 (i) (ii) (iii) 785 786 Plastic model Kits 17-002")
%20(ii)%20(iii)%20785%20786%20Plastic%20model%20Kits%2013-002.jpg "2 Gribeauval System Regimental Wagon Historex No. 784 (i) (ii) (iii) 785 786 Plastic model Kits 13-002")
About Me
- Hugh Walter
- No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
- I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Friday, November 4, 2022
G is for Gribeauval System - Regimental Wagon - Historex No's 784(i), (ii) & (iii), 785 & 786
A real quickie as I don't have the colour
sheet if there ever was one, but for completion's sake here the little I did
get from the catalogues (five catalogues have come in since the original scans,
but I haven't started trying to make sense of them, just take the odd page!);
the Regimental Wagon, which I assume is like our General Service (GS) wagons,
or filling the same niche - a standardised design for ammunition, troops, other
stores, cargo or casualties?%20(ii)%20(iii)%20785%20786%20Plastic%20model%20Kits%2017-002.jpg "1 Gribeauval System Regimental Wagon Historex No. 784 (i) (ii) (iii) 785 786 Plastic model Kits 17-002")
%20(ii)%20(iii)%20785%20786%20Plastic%20model%20Kits%2013-002.jpg "2 Gribeauval System Regimental Wagon Historex No. 784 (i) (ii) (iii) 785 786 Plastic model Kits 13-002")
Just a thought, but one wonders if the Gribeauval System wouldn't have produced a weak-point in these, over the more sturdy British one, by dint of having a diss- or 'de-'mountable system (the limber/bogie set up between the horses and wagon-body) meaning a natural weakness at the join over rough ground or under fire . . . nothing jingoistic, just a curious thought? My thanks to Tony, and we're looking at the
sheets for the ambulance next.
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