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Black Prince kit/conversion?
Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 06:40 PM UTC
Does anyone do a kit or conversion set to make a Black Prince in any scale?

MonkeyGun

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Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 09:56 PM UTC
Hi Neil
I wish I could say yes , because i would love to build one too.
However as far as i know there is no full kit available and as regards a conversion kit , although the Black Prince looks like a Churchill with a different turret , the hull of the Black Prince was longer and wider than the standard Churchill so converting a standard Churchill kit would be very very difficult
Ian
I wish I could say yes , because i would love to build one too.
However as far as i know there is no full kit available and as regards a conversion kit , although the Black Prince looks like a Churchill with a different turret , the hull of the Black Prince was longer and wider than the standard Churchill so converting a standard Churchill kit would be very very difficult

Ian


greatbrit

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Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 11:17 PM UTC
Milicast do a nice one in 1/76.
Its the only kit on the market.
It would also be near impossible to convert a churchill.
Although they look similar almost all components are different
Its the only kit on the market.
It would also be near impossible to convert a churchill.
Although they look similar almost all components are different

MonkeyGun

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Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 11:20 PM UTC
So nothing in 1/35
my eyes are too old and fingers to stubby for 1/76th :-)
Ian




my eyes are too old and fingers to stubby for 1/76th :-)
Ian

Posted: Friday, March 24, 2006 - 02:41 AM UTC

Did a set of plans not appear in a "mag" a long time ago????
Probably get a set from Bovington Tank Museum -Plans archives --------thats if you want to go to "the Dark side" :-)
Pity its a bang -bang ---could be tempted

aye


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MonkeyGun

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Posted: Friday, March 24, 2006 - 02:48 AM UTC
LOL Steve
Im just putting the finishing touches to a Tamiya Churchill with a scratchbuilt interior , still not ready to go over the the "dark side " yet im still in the "slightly off colour side" :-)
Would be intersting to see the plans/drawings to compare the two
Ian
Im just putting the finishing touches to a Tamiya Churchill with a scratchbuilt interior , still not ready to go over the the "dark side " yet im still in the "slightly off colour side" :-)
Would be intersting to see the plans/drawings to compare the two
Ian

Posted: Friday, March 24, 2006 - 03:56 AM UTC

PLANS
http://www.afvnews.ca/1-35.html
1/48plans
http://www.afvnews.ca/1-48dwgs.html
pics
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/7413/a43blackprince.html
aye


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Posted: Friday, March 24, 2006 - 02:25 PM UTC
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Milicast do a nice one in 1/76.
Its the only kit on the market.
Between the likes of Milicast, AB Figures and Cromwell I am seriously tempted to give up on 1/35 and go for it in 1/76. For fans of British/Commonwealth stuff it seems there's very little that isn't available in that scale.
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