I decided to delve into my stash and take some photos. For all of these, what I did was open the box, remove any paperwork, and pose lid and box on my workbench for a photo. Unlike Neil, I have a very good memory for what I intended to do with a model, so I’ll share that too
Trumpeter Cadillac-Gage Commando and Verlinden XM706E2
The Verlinden kit I had built long before buying the Trumpeter one maybe ten years ago. I put it into the same box because it’s easier to keep them like this, as a theme sort of thing
The Verlinden kit has the base OD paint on, but not the camouflage — I began spraying that and my
airbrush didn’t want to cooperate at the time, so I gave up for the time being. That was a very long time ago
Revell TPz Fuchs
I had originally bought the Fuchs kit when that came out, but wanted to build an Americna M93 Fox NBC recce vehicle from it, so I scratchbuilt the rear hull extension. By the time I had that part done,
Revell released the German version of that vehicle so I bought it and used its rear hull for the M93 instead, leaving me with the parts for a regular Fuchs plus the scratchbuilt rear in the box of the NBC version. I then decided to open the roof hatches and put in the interior you can see through those. After removing the roof, building a replacement from plastic (to have the kit hatches in it) and adding the floor, I kind of gave up, though.
ICM T-35
This was going to be an abandonned vehicle with the turret hatches open and some German troops on it. The sprues were very oily, and I never did finish it.
AFV Club Centurion Mk. 5 NL conversion
This is the AFV Club Centurion converted to a Dutch Army mid-1970s upgraded vehicle with an MR Models fuel monotrailer. The build stalled due to lack of information (mainly dimensions) on the mounting plate for the searchlight, as well as the camouflage scheme (
nobody has colour photos or knows paint numbers for the colours used by 41 Tankbataljon back then
).
Italeri Leopard 1(NL) conversion
A conversion of the German Leopard 1 to the early, non-upgraded Dutch version. It’s mostly done except for the smoke grenade launcher mounts, of which I found the shape almost impossible to work out
The tracks in the box are actually AFV Club ones for the M26/46/47, because at the time the early chevron track type for the Leopard was impossible to get.
AFV Club YPR-765 range wreck
Having already built a YPR-765 soon after the kit first came out, I bought a second one to build as a hard target on a firing range. The interior bits are from Academy and
Tamiya M113 kits.
Dragon M51 Sherman
This is the Dragon kit built mostly from the box, with some extra detailling and the upper hull replaced by one from Italeri because of the extreme texture on the Dragon piece (they apparently interpreted many layers of peeling paint as cast metal texture). I originally intended to put AFV Club tracks on this one, but I recently put those into the box of a
Tamiya HVSS Sherman instead.
Emhar Medium A Whippet
Almost twenty years ago I was quite interested in this type of tank, and so bought the Emhar kit to build and correct, as it was the only choice but not overly great. There’s a set of Accurate Armour resin tracks in the box to replace the awful Emhar ones.
Tamiya M551 Sheridan
This is the old kit, that I bought in the late 90s when it was finally reissued. I corrected some details and converted it to a Vietnam version, with the commander’s cupola armour.
Meng Tortoise conversion
Bought when it was only recently released, I decided to convert it to a vehicle as might have seen active service in the 1950s or so. If anyone has a plastic barrel from a Conqueror left, I’d be happy to take it off your hands because I later decided that might be more likely for such a vehicle