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Camouflaged tyres. You could get black flagged for that as when they are spinning around they would actually make the vehicle more visible as the different colours flash by. 😆😆

Q1 23 has gone, any update on release?

But there is no sea on the map 🙄 Are they lost? Fabulous modelling especially in the limited time frame you had.

Great work but no drinks trolley on that flight😒

Oh no not one of those 1:1 scale models. I had access to one when I was building my Rhodesian Garratt. It was wrong in so many details according to the Rhodesian Railways official (tiny) scale drawing I had. Unfortunately I had already made significant progress on the chassis etc before I had access to the real thing (which luckily was only 30 minutes from where I live in New Zealand) so compromises had to be made to enable me to maintain my sanity and progress my already flawed components. You do need to understand 'as designed' versus 'as built' versus 'as modified in service' then 'as restored' changes in a steam locomotives lifespan.

If your building scale models of railway rolling stock not in a traditional 'model railway' gauge, which 1/35th scale isn't, please don't be bound by existing model railway gauges. By all means use existing model railway components but building scale track is easy as pie as is regauging wheelsets. My unfinished 1/35th scale Rhodesian Garratt (3ft - 6in gauge) is a severe kit bash of two 1/35th scale standard gauge WW2 German locomotives using wheels, wheel bearings, driving rods (length changed) and boiler backhead details etc. Do have look at the 1/35th German WW2 diesels as a source of wheels etc like this one https://www.knotmodels.com/products/trumpeter-1-35-german-wr-360-c12-locomotive-1-35-plastic-model I used the standard gauge track sections that come with the two kits, and available separately by several manufacturers (in my case regauged to correct Rhodesian Cape narrow gauge. Thinking about it I still have all the original tender wheels from the kits, what diameter wheels do you need? You can get standard gauge 1/35th wagon wheels from Miniart https://www.ebay.com/itm/143611666092 There are also sources of resin 1/35th wheels suitable for non running rolling stock.

Have a look at my thread on converting 1/48 Cessna 172 to a C 180. When you compare plans the Cessna lights are remarkably similar. Sorry the search function is going crazy at the moment so I can't post link.

Nice model but as noted above the British build specification is rather different than the Aussie vehicle you have used.

It is non slip application which is very aggressive in nature .

Same problem opening Slackbladder photos

Simply brilliant but are you sure about the acronym OARS? I'm sure I've seen the Optimised Aeronaught Recovery System before on an airforce pilot survival dingy? I heard the designer charged them mega bucks for the revolutionary idea but it was never adopted as it was found that when operated the dingy just spin in circles clockwise if the operator was left handed or anti clockwise if right handed. Good to keep the pilot warm but not much else. Later DOARS was adopted when dual OARS were developed as fitted to your magnificent machine😃

M5 tractor crane kit bash s nearly finished.

Sorry numerous NZ decal options but all military https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/toys-models/models/aircraft/1-72/listing/4033802219?bof=PmovvAxo

I started a scratch build of a NZ Army Lloyd carrier and received feedback that this individual believed that the original order included a number for the RNZAF fitted out as slave battery carriers for aircraft starting on soft grass airfields. I've never seen or read any collaborating evidence of this asertion. If it was true did the idea come from the RAF?

Removed so the drivers could not see the chasing Russians OPFOR who were faster than the Chieftains😛 I did one Lionheart exercise attached to a British Army unit but in much faster Scorpion.

6 tins of one colour. That about a century of painting for me😁

I agree the cross bars are unusual but I'm not not convinced that they may not be solid given the step-down in thickness at about the halfway point. Perhaps the inner bar on a turn (on the tank end) can telescope in slightly transferring all pull to the outside bar.

An autogyro in full noise maker mode

Scratchbuilt from Tamiya GMC. There is one now available in 1/48th 3D print from KC Hawk (See FB)

This one is 1/48th. I also have small layouts in built in 1/24 (Gn15) and the Rhodesian stuff is 1/35.

An update on the ever growing MT section of the RNZAF Servicing Unit on an airstrip somewhere secret in the SW Pacific WW2. The locomotive and construction equipment captured from the Japanese on the left and a couple of NZ Army visitors beside them. All the rest is RNZAF issue, lend lease or begged, borrowed or stolen from the Yanks😋

Here is the picture. I believe it is the same version you queried. I'm not claiming it is RAF but it is on a British military airfield.

How about this post war QL fire appliance on airfield in Malaya during the emergency Caption is British Army Auster Kluang Airfield http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=124649&d=1631458736

1/48 M5 2 ton tractor crane which is mounted on a International Harvester T9 tractor. The build is a major kit bash of two Tamiya G40 bulldozers. First the tracks were extended and same size sprocket and idler fitted. The modifications to make a TD 6. And started on the crane mounting. I've also just finished a 1/48 scale US Navy Mk 6 Bomb and Torpedo Skid. It is mounted on small tracks that could be fitted to a range of bomb carriers and small ordinance cranes when they are used on soft ground. The scratch build used the tracks off a 1/100 scale Sdkfz 251 halftrack.

Yahoo. Must find my copy of Gunslingers in Action https://www.amazon.com/Gunslingers-action-Aircraft-No-14/dp/0897470133