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Hello fellow Members. With some trepidation I offer my completed Tank Transporter for ribald comment and derision. Elsewhere, I have posted photos to supplement comments within other peoples threads so I thought it wise to capture everything in my own. Firstly then, I offer you the T980 Tractor unit: The decals are 'home brewed' and are taken from photo of the real deal. The 'strongman symbol' is appropriate for the era. The windows have been greased and sand added to reduce the reflective area so as not to advertise the unit to enemy aircraft (in fact the area kept clear was usually smaller than my model depicts. The rear end contains a significant load of sand bags to improve traction in addition to Fuel and Water flimsies, a drum of lubricating oils and a captured 'jerry can' (probably 'liberated' from a rescued tank). Heavy duty chain, rope and restraining blocks make up the remainder of the load. The 'Caution Left Hand Drive' sign is a bit of a disappointment as I found it extraordinarily difficult to get my laser printer to match colour - this was the best I could manage. Mmmmm, my very clever mirrors have lost their 'mirrors' and I only spotted that this evening!! So what is visible is the 'blob of PVA' and the carbon fibre mirror arm. This cruelly enlarged photo shows the driver's mates 'bail out' gear hanging on the front of the load bed, the helmet looks ready for the scrap man!! Fortunately at normal viewing distance it looks OK. Come to that, the huge bits of crud in the paintwork disappear as well.
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