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#21

Joe Paonessa said:

I can’t help looking at the remote control ones now. I’m thinking double bang for the buck. It would be cool to drive them around and protect the premises. I’d probably get in trouble for arming them??

Joe , Remote Control Tanks are available in 1/35 , which is near enough for what you want .

Proper scale tanks would probably exceed your loading gauge . They are ready built and as long as you don’t want a complete army right away , should be easy enough to acquire .

If you wish to go round shooting up the scenery , for a little extra you can get sound , flash and I think you call them BB pellets , firing .

Me , being a peaceable chap , use Rail Guns . Now there’s a project or two , whopping great pieces of artillery with special locos and plenty of crew available . BOOOM . Heh Heh Heh , I win.

Mike Brit , warmonger at large . Rule , Britannia .

#22

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I thought there was something else . How about the box title ?

Casting looks along a row of boxes looking for Navy , you might just miss it .

Mike Brit

PS There are more pics of the Boxcar available if you want .

#23

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#24

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/mike_m/PH%20Box.jpg)

#25

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/mike_m/PH%20Side.jpg)

#26

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#27

I understand from an expert in these things that the Navy Boxcars were ex-DRGW ; they had them transferred during WW2 .

I also believe that instead of being returned to DRGW , some went to WPYR .

Mike Brit

#28

nothing against those cars. They look good.
I’m thinking of getting that larger M1 that shoots BBs and fire the heck out of a car like that!!!
( I have a few old donors in rough shape)
I just got a couple of 1/35 static models for now.
I’d like to compare them to the 1/32 FOV ones for size and detail.

#29

You won’t find the FOV ones short on detail , what’s more , they are not as delicate as the 1/35 kit built models , so when you get a derailment there is not going to be catastrophic damage .

The weight of the FOV models will put the centre of gravity with their flat cars way up high , so you will have to keep to prototypical speeds .

When you are transporting them , remember to disarm them ; they may look nice bristling with 0.5 Brownings , but it just ain’t done .

Mike

#30

Someone posted on Facebook that Al @ Gail line is doing the DODX cars this fall nut nothing is on his main web page -

The GAL Line Exciting New Products Announcement:

New Project Designs from THE GAL LINE - Fall 2014

Available in 1/29th scale
PRR FM flat car (includes trucks, SV wheels and bearings)
PRR FM flat car for container service with 5 - DD1 containers (includes trucks, SV wheels and bearings)
DODX 68 ft flat cars (includes trucks, SV wheels and bearings)

Available in 1/20.3th scale
D&RGW car side replacement projects
Business car Rico
Business car Edna

Coming this winter - 53’ PRR Express Refer in 1/29th scale.

#31

Does Gal line have a site? I’m interested in those flats!! Very cool, thanks.

#32

http://www.thegalline.com/

#33

Looks like i’m doing a tank train now, this is in the area i’m modeling

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and the story line

Here’s today’s PHOTO OF THE DAY!!! A dramatic photograph of tanks being unloaded from D&H railroad cars at Plattsburgh, taken 75 years ago this month!!! Known as M-1 “Combat Cars,” these tanks would soon participate in the greatest peacetime Army maneuvers in U.S. history, held right here in the North Country on the eve of World War II! The “1st Army,” consisting of all regular and National Guardtroops in New England (nearly 60,000 men), was massed here for war games from August 13th - 27th, 1939, the largest concentration of U.S. soldiers since World War 1!! Intended to study and plan tactics for use in a “modern” mechanized war, the massive influx of men briefly pushed the population of Clinton County over 100,000, with troops stretching from Silver Lake and Black Brook to Beekmantown and Ingraham. Directed from Plattsburgh Barracks, the enormous exercise became international news and was attended by representatives of 17 foreign nations, ironically, including military attaches from Imperial Japan (with the highest number of observers present) and Nazi Germany. Five days after the conclusion of the Army maneuvers, German forces invaded Poland.

#34

Are you going to use the FOV Honeys ?

They are good models , 1/35 scale . (I may be wrong there , it may be 1/32 . 1/35 seems out of character for FOV)

Remember , most people do not know how big a tank is . The Honey (the full turreted version of the one in your photo) is a "small tank " until you stand alongside it .

There are also Half Tracks that would make good recce vehicles for the tank group .

#35

I was just thinking of going with the RC Sherman from Hobby king, i think they are cheaper then the FOV ones i was looking at, plus I can drive them off the cars and around the garden

#36

I don’t wish to be picky , but the contemporary medium tank at the era you have chosen was the Lee or Grant .

Mike

#37

Mike Morgan said:

I don’t wish to be picky , but the contemporary medium tank at the era you have chosen was the Lee or Grant .

Mike

Well, like you said, Mike, most folk don’t know anything about tanks, and couldn’t tell a Lee from an Abrams or a Whippet or a Challenger.

#38

True , true .

And it does so happen that there are very good r/c Abrams available .

They even make ones that go “flashbang” . Good for amusing the kids .

If you go to the 1/16 ones like mine , they flash , bang , fire BB’s and the whole tank recoils .

Cats and other nuisances look on in wonder from the tops of local trees which they scale astoundingly quickly when a Leopard (appropriately) growls round the corner .

#39

On a good day, I can recognize a Sherman, M-48, M-60 and an Abrams, but that’s only because those are the tanks that i grew up with and served with. Beyond that, I’m pretty much hopeless.

#40

What I’m really curious about is why does USAT put a King Tiger on their USMC Military Trains flat car?