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Nice !
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Cool! I remember when the civilian version hit US streets as “the Thing” way back in the early 1980s.
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Now that’s more like it - after of course I sold my wife and house to obtain the Schuco version. Sigh
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I can only hope that these are WAYYY better than ACE Munga and Iltis.
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Hey Brian, we all appreciate your “sacrifice”.
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Thinking about it - this really is good news; they make great secondary models in supporting larger ones, say, AFVs. I remember them always on exercise, whether the mount of the Bundeswehr Liaison Officer, or in use by the many German units we encountered on exercise, or even in barracks.
We seem to be doing OK for these smaller soft-skins: we have a Minerva Land Rover recently released as a 3D print, and also from Sylly’s Models the DAF YA-66. We’ve had Land Rovers of various types for some time of course, but I feel our Cold War cup now runneth over!
Good times to be a Cold War modeller.
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God yes; if only the MUNGA was up to spec! Still, as I’ve just said, the wider picture is quite healthy I feel.
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Can’t comment on the accuracy, but from a molding perspective, Das Werk is of course much better then ACE, since these are not short run kits. As well, notice the Amusing Hobby name on the box as well, who is invariably doing the molding.
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Here’s one in French Army service (FFA contingent)
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H.P.
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Exactly - there’s some really good options, not jut in supporting other models - but displayed in their own right perhaps!
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Assuming these links work for others ? I haven’t been able to access Track-Link for months now.
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Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at www.track-link.com Port 443
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It could be that something else on the server your internet provider uses to connect you to the internet has irritated something on the server hosting Track-Link and now the server hosting Track-Link blocks everything coming from the server used by your internet provider.
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Just as another brand was about to start Cad work on theirs…
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A brief Bundeswehr video of the Kurierwagen.
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My older brother’s best friend drove one of those in the late 1970s. As a little kid I remember thinking, “that is one ugly car”. These will look great parked next to tank models.
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In the early 90’s while I was doing some post-grad work while my fiancée finished her Bachelor’s I owned a 1969 VW bus. One of our roommates got interested in VWs after seeing me tootle around in mine, so we drove down to Tampa, FL, and bought a white 74 Thing from a used car dealer.
He drives it a few months and then hits a nail and gets a flat. No biggie, right? We go to jack up the car and discover the passenger side rear quarter is mostly Bondo and the jack point tears out and drops the car back down with the jack sticking up through the floorboard. That’s when I learned to carry a magnet while checking out used cars.
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A vital tool when looking at used cars. The modern designs with some body parts made of plastic or composites does confuse things though …
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had a ‘58 bus, 1300cc, and the same thing happened. The Jack went up and the van didn’t move. OOpppss!
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Happened with my first van.Engine mounts had rusted ended up with the lump dropped and only able to get third gear.
I’d taken a mate when buying who was supposed to know motors too.
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Hopefully it’s not a collaboration with ACE. But TBH I’d still buy one if it was. I’ve survived the Munga and the Iltis. How difficult could a flat pack VW be? Oh Wait…
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