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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.

Thursday, October 5, 2023

T is for Two - Euro-Armour

To go with their largish '54mm' Airfix resembling 54mm combat infantry, technically US troops, but aimed at a NATO , or Bundeswher recogniseing fan-base, Jean Hoefler produced a Leopard Tank, and to utilise the chassis tool, a nice conversion to this beast . . .

. . . the Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gepard (Cheetah), an all-weather-capable day-and-night, self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) currently doing sterling-service in Ukraine, bringing down Russian tactical missiles and their 'indestructible' hypersonic bollocks, as well as drones, large and small!

Seen-elsewhere shot, you can see it goes well with pretty-much any large-scale toy soldiers you throw at it with Crescent, Cherilea and a couple of Reisler, used here as scale/size compatibility guides.
 
While this is - I'm pretty sure - a Bonux premium from France, next-door, but it's unmarked, the ex-Manurba-Tallon stuff they carried is marked with the soap-powder's name, but it seems the more unique items weren't. Fictional but fun!

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