I’m interested in completing a diorama of a scene from Operation Motorman from the early seventies in Northern Ireland. I have previously made enquires about tanks used in this operation but that has proved to be expensive due to having to buy kits and expensive conversation sets. I have unearthed the attached photo from my research of another vehicle used by the army during this operation. I know someone will be able to identify this vehicle and confirm if there is a 1/35 scale kit available.

Many Thanks Cookie

Sorry forgot to attached photo

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Hi Paul,

That's an Alvis Saradin, we used to have loads of it stationed in Hong kong in the sixties and seventies.

Tamiya has one ages ago, the other option is the Dartmoor resin kit I think.

Best regards,

Li

Im new to this Cookie

Have a look at this one & compare prices & quality. http://www.djparkins.com/acatalog/1_35th_Vehicles.html

Mike

They look and i'm sure they are high quality excellent kits,but still a bit expensive for me. I will have to do a bit more research about other vehicles used at the time of Operation Motorman and see if any are available as plastic kits.The landrover would probably be one possibility.

Many Thanks

Cookie

If 48 quid is too dear, then I suspect you are going to be in trouble. The late 50's through early 70's group of British vehicles is not known for having a lot of injection kits. I suspect you might not even find a correct injection Land Rover. If you do, that would probably be about it. There are resin kits of these subjects and conversions to update or correct the odd AFV that exists, but that's abuot it, I'm afraid. If you are willing to go to a more automotive scale like 1/43 or 1/24 you might find commercial versions of the military vehicles you are looking for and then you can scratchbuild the conversions to the military versions.

If you don't mind smaller models, then 1/76 and 1/87 offer a lot of options that 1/35 does not.

HTH

Paul

Hmmm, 48 quid for a Saladin, eh? Might have to go on the Christmas list, that...

Paul

I suspect your right. this started as an idea after i saw photos of the Centurion used during operation Motorman. It trigered memories of seeing these in Northern Ireland during the time of the operation. All options seem to lead to Resin alternatives which are very expensive.

Cookie

You might find the Italeri Land Rover going cheap some where.

If you want to go Braille scale , I belive Airfix has the Saladin ,Saracen ( APC version ) and a Rover or 2 in 1/76 th . Not the graetest for detail , but would be a lot cheaper . You could even do a 3 or 4 vehicle check point dio .

Tamiya did have a 1/35 plastic Sally out MANY years ago, but it isn't very good by today's standards. You can find them cheaper nowadays than say 10 years ago, but still probably in the $20-30 USD range.