Introduction
Eleven years ago, I was cleaning a neglected part of the garden. Shallow underground I came across heavily corroded oval objects. Years of watching war movies and gluing models made me sure that these were duds. I called the police. They arrived quickly. "How did you know what it is?" "I watched Four Tank-Men and a Dog when I was a child, so I know things". The policemen called the bomb squad. They also arrived in the blink of an eye. They searched the entire plot and found four projectiles and two unknown tracks. They picked up the duds and drove away.
They left the caterpillars. After a very short examination I already knew that these were track links from the Valentine.
Imagine a British or Canadian tank that came to Murmansk by ship. And she and her Russian crew traveled a long way to lose this piece of tracks in the middle of Poland.
This is how I started to like this tank. Previously I considered her as ugly and with randomly chosen wheels of all sizes.
And this year in cleanup, I found this
This is my plan for the near future.
One tank from MiniArt, one from Bronco and two from AFV Club.There is also their cripple cousin from RPM (ex.Maquette, ex.VM). But I won't show him because I don't want you to have nightmares.
I have already started working on models.
I do them all at once because I want to swap parts between them. I will not describe the work on the Canadian version here because I do it on the track-link. This is the Canadian forum and I am counting on their help there over their vehicle. But I will be happy to describe the rest of the work here. I will start with the New Zealand Valentine CS.
So, stay tuned
Marek/Mark