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This is the kit I was trying to find before I bought and built all the LRDG stuff. That was a costly misplaced birthday present. Anyway, this was only a quickie build whilst waiting for bits to arrive for the Toyota build. 1/76 is a bit fiddly for me these days, think I'll stick to 1/35th. This was however the truck and gun my Grandad was a team leader on in North Africa at El Alamein and then up to Monte Cassino, Italy. The only one of three brothers to be called up. He never spoke about it to us, but from our Nan we believe sadly half his gun crew was wiped out in a direct hit at some point. A lovely man whom my son is now named after. Enjoy. Thanks for looking.
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Hi, I am scratch building a AEC Matador 0854 with a Coles Crane in 1:24 scale, This is going to go in a diorama taking out a Typhoon engine somewhere in France late 1944 early 1945. I have the book Taking the rough with the smooth by Steve Richards, can anyone tell me what the colour of the unit would have been? I dont think it was blue!! There is no 1;24 scale body of a Matador 0854 so I bought the AEC Militant Mk1 6 x6 from Howard at KFS, had to lengthen the chassis to make it 14'-9 1/8" wheelbase. I removed the wood of the chassis and replaced with channel I made out of sheet styrene, then made the bottom turntable out of 1/8 sheet and turned it to shape. Until next time, Regards Richard