Continuing with 'Car Month', I offer these photos of a batch of 1/32 scale cars I picked up on Ebay a couple of months ago. These looked to have been built and painted many years ago - generally to quite a good standard. All required a degree of repair - re-attaching parts ranging from gear levers to complete axles. Some of them are earmarked to transport King Boris III of Forbodia and his staff.
I also have amassed a number of car kits still in boxes - mostly from Airfix and Revell, so I'll try to build at least one of them this month.
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| 1911 Rolls-Royce - an old (released in 1955!) Airfix kit. King Boris's own car. |
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| 1904 Darracq - again by Airfix (1956) - possibly for the use of a Forbodian Brigadier. |
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| 1907 Lanchester by Airfix (1957) |
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1905 Rolls Royce by Airfix (1956) minus it's front wings - I just couldn't get them to stay in place. This may be allocated to Forbodian divisional staff officers. |
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| 1926 Morris Cowley by Airfix (1959). This looks a bit modern! |
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| Another Airfix favourite from 1956 - a 1910 Ford Model T - authentically finished in "any colour you like..." |
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A Ford Model A complete with driver. This rather charming model is a Gowland (no relation!) kit, the original tooling for which probably dates form the 1950s. |
8 comments:
Oh, they look lovely....you lucky swine you. they can´t have been cheap to buy. A great boost to your forces..
Cheers
Paul
Paul
I think they worked out at about £3 each, so you can imagine how pleased I was to get them. I want my senior officers to travel in style!
WOW!!! 3 quid each!!! Ready built and painted!! A bargain and no mistake.
Cheers
Paul
Paul
The really crazy thing is that I'm paying more than that for kits! I suppose I'd better get some built.
Go Car Month!
I suppose I had better drag something out!
Paul
I suppose you had. And I'd better build something.
A general observation: I like your choice of 'Victorian' rather than 'ca. WWI' uniforms: with the generalization of khaki / feldgrau, armies lost most of their flamboyance and pageantry. What good designing and building imaginary troops, if they are dull?
Abdul666
Welcome - and thanks for your comment. My FLW forces are intended to recreated the period in which HG Wells was originally writing - before the Great War when the world was reminded that war is actually a rather unpleasant business. And, to pick up your point - why bother if you can't have silly uniforms?
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