Howdy y'all!

Thought I'd add some nostalgia, found some pics on my PC of an ancient build. The Matchbox M24 with base and a few modifications: Trees and Matchbox figures. Must have been about 15 when I did it.

Is this the kind of modifications to the base we're talking or is it already too much (not that the AVRE-base would have any room for modifications... )

Cheerio!

...some of the bases may not lend themselves to much modification as they are rather limited in size. This was one reason why I solicited everyone's input on if we should allow bases to be extended in some cases. I still believe that in some cases we might still permit a bit, say 20%, enlargement, of a base. The Comet, Panzer III and M40 come to mind as having perhaps a little too small a base. Let's see what others think of these ideas.

I do not know what I will participate in the campaign ... maybe the Puma, or a Churchill AVRE. I wish with a Firefly, but it's ok if it covered with a hessian tape????...I would like to do a new experiment....

Well, in the case of the AVRE, it's actually just a piece of "dirt" with some track marks in it. It will more or less disappear under the Churchill. In this case any enlargment would be a substantial change to the base and the base would be - in my opinion - no longer recognisable... The only thing I could imagine would be to make it higher and add water in front of the vehicle. I think I'll just mount it on a wooden base and that's it (I think that would be acceptable, no?).

Cheerio!

PS: thanks for the comments about the M24, but if you look closely you'll notice that I didn't even weather any at that time (for starters).

Nope.. Revell kits are unicolor (usually dark green). However, there is nothing to stop you from painting your model like it is modelled in 3 colors off course

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Nope.. Revell kits are unicolor (usually dark green). However, there is nothing to stop you from painting your model like it is modelled in 3 colors off course

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Looks like I will have to grab an original Matchbox kit on eBAY

Now which kit had the most striking colors ?

Ian

Jan, please excuse me for my late reply, but I was "gone" a week in hospital for a second operation on my left leg .For my Firefly i want to experience something like that:
Is ok?

@Ian - Welcome to our little group and your callsign has been added to the enlistees chart. You now swell our number to 27.

Well, if everyone completes their builds prior to painting, takes snaps, then does the paintwork, (as is the norm these days) I'm sure we'll see lots of photos of the kits in their mulitcoloured satin plastic glory before the painting covers it forever.

Maybe that should be a campaign rule?

I have a couple of Churchills AVRE on their way to me, so I will build one for the campaign, that bridge is one of the coolest models that Matchbox produced (I wish someone did that in 1/35 plastic)

A T34 may be a fun one to build with my Daughter, building it sans paint and appyling the decals to the bare plastic, I will have to look out for a cheap one on evilbay. I have fond memories of building a Matchbox Alpha Jet when I was about 10 or younger, that kit was in two colours, with its white fuse and red wings and yes it was completed and decaled without paint !

Of interest to Matthew might be his World War I tanks page found HERE .