Thursday, 10 March 2011

Motor Cars for Funny Little Wars

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.

1911 Rolls-Royce - an old (released in 1955!) Airfix kit.  King Boris's own car.
1904 Darracq - again by Airfix (1956) - possibly for the use of a Forbodian Brigadier.
1907 Lanchester by Airfix (1957)
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.
1926 Morris Cowley by Airfix (1959).  This looks a bit modern!
Another Airfix favourite from 1956 - a 1910 Ford Model T - authentically finished in "any colour you like..."
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. 

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8 comments:

  1. Paul´s Bods10 March 2011 at 11:22

    Oh, they look lovely....you lucky swine you. they can´t have been cheap to buy. A great boost to your forces..
    Cheers
    Paul

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  2. Tim Gow10 March 2011 at 12:49

    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!

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  3. Paul´s Bods10 March 2011 at 14:20

    WOW!!! 3 quid each!!! Ready built and painted!! A bargain and no mistake.
    Cheers
    Paul

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  4. Tim Gow10 March 2011 at 14:33

    Paul
    The really crazy thing is that I'm paying more than that for kits! I suppose I'd better get some built.

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  5. Paul11 March 2011 at 01:33

    Go Car Month!

    I suppose I had better drag something out!

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  6. Tim Gow11 March 2011 at 10:34

    Paul
    I suppose you had. And I'd better build something.

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  7. abdul66611 March 2011 at 12:26

    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?

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  8. Tim Gow11 March 2011 at 13:28

    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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