Monday, 11 May 2015

Salad(in) Dressing*

As part of the seriously out of control arms race that is accompanying the development of Little Cold Wars I have acquired several Saladin armoured cars.

These models are the rather splendid Crescent die casts - complete with matchstick firing gun!  Such is the robustness of the models that in most cases the gun still functions.  According to my measurements they scale out at about 1/38.

So far I have painted this quartet - a base coat of green and an over spray of black for that full-on 1970s BAOR look.

More when I have finished them off.



* I know, I know.  But it was the best I could come up with on a Monday.
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10 comments:

  1. tradgardmastare11 May 2015 at 19:18

    Or you could have used the title of an old musical review called "Salad Days" what!

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  2. tradgardmastare11 May 2015 at 19:18

    Will the working guns feature in the rules?
    Alan

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  3. Tim Gow11 May 2015 at 20:17

    tradgardmastare
    That's enough talk of salad. I think it's illegal in Yorkshire.

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  4. Tim Gow11 May 2015 at 20:18

    tradgardmastare
    Artillery fire features the mighty matchstick - AT fire uses a different mechanism, but it's nice to know the Saladins have all their original features.

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  5. Don M11 May 2015 at 20:58

    This project has taken on a life of it's own....no shock there!

    These are quite nice little models!

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  6. Tim Gow11 May 2015 at 21:19

    Don M
    Are you tempted Don? Go on - come with us....

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  7. Paul Foster12 May 2015 at 02:54

    No pennants on the whip aerials?

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  8. Tim Gow12 May 2015 at 11:39

    Paul Foster
    I think I preferred you when you were ill...

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  9. Archduke Piccolo12 May 2015 at 12:46

    Saladin Sane - you gotta keep it together, eh?

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