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Copper state models: Canadian armoured Car
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Posted: Wednesday, November 04, 2020 - 08:43 PM UTC


New Canadian armoured car in 1/35 scale.

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Posted: Thursday, November 05, 2020 - 01:34 AM UTC
I'm not into WWI stuff, but I really like the look of that thing. Plus, it's Canadian!

Anybody know anything about this? Like how many were made?
Scottosaurus
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Posted: Thursday, November 05, 2020 - 02:05 AM UTC
These were produced by Autocar (the vehicles were known as the Armoured Autocar) and equipped the 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade, which I believe were the first mechanized armoured unit in the world.

There is one preserved in the Canadian War Museum.

Cheers,

Scott
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Posted: Thursday, November 05, 2020 - 05:31 AM UTC
Maybe it's me, but this thing looks like it just drove in from an Indiana Jones movie. Eh?
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Posted: Thursday, November 05, 2020 - 07:06 AM UTC
This is a fantastic choice and I look forward to it. First Canadian armoured vehicle and as Scott has noted, the Canadian Automobile MG Brigade (later called the Motor Machine Gun Brigades) was essentially the world's first purposely organized armoured unit.

Canada - first armoured unit, first nation to send tanks to Afghanistan, there seems to be a tiny bit of trend...
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Posted: Thursday, November 05, 2020 - 12:41 PM UTC
Talk about basic...the Victorian era meets the MG and internal combustion engine.
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Posted: Friday, November 06, 2020 - 12:27 AM UTC

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Maybe it's me, but this thing looks like it just drove in from an Indiana Jones movie. Eh?


Well, there ya go! Perhaps a good candidate of a kit for the next "Science Fiction Campaign"!!
vettejack
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Posted: Friday, November 06, 2020 - 12:32 AM UTC

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Talk about basic...the Victorian era meets the MG and internal combustion engine.


My grandad (RIP 1971, WW1 Veteran) knew of these simpler times. He would paraphrase about vehicles back then compared to the modern era with something like..."back then they had 500 parts and go 500 miles, but today they have 10,000 parts and go 100 miles". Maybe he had something there...
Charby
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Posted: Friday, November 06, 2020 - 01:08 AM UTC

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These were produced by Autocar (the vehicles were known as the Armoured Autocar) and equipped the 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade, which I believe were the first mechanized armoured unit in the world.

There is one preserved in the Canadian War Museum.

Cheers,

Scott


Great info! Thanks!
panzer948
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Posted: Friday, November 13, 2020 - 05:53 AM UTC

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Quoted Text

Talk about basic...the Victorian era meets the MG and internal combustion engine.


My grandad (RIP 1971, WW1 Veteran) knew of these simpler times. He would paraphrase about vehicles back then compared to the modern era with something like..."back then they had 500 parts and go 500 miles, but today they have 10,000 parts and go 100 miles". Maybe he had something there...



Perhaps for the 1970s but automotive longevity is much better now... even with the addional parts. Cars routinely go more than 100,000 miles with simple routine maintenence.
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