Group Build Description: This is a campaign aimed at all you small scale freaks.
As for the length maybe 6 months?
You can build anything from artillery to just general armor, vehicles and guns! Bottom line is we dont discriminateā¦ well expect for ships and aircraft. Go back to your respective forums.
Scales acceptable: 1/72- 1/285
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Well, Iāve got a 1/seventytooth Flak-37, a 1/76 Sherman Firefly and a derelict 1/72 M1 Abrams (missing at least the tracks). Looks like I might could contribute, but it will be spring before I start.
Well as Iām partly responsible for starting the idea for this campaign, I canāt really step down from this duty! Although Iām not sure what being being leader entails. I will of course do my best.
Now to decide what to build. Leaning towards my old favourites Matchbox, but these First to Fight kits Iāve recently gotten are very nice.
The Itsy Bitsy, Teeny Weeny, Tank Campaign?
Good things come in small packages campaign?
Microscope required tank build?
Big tanks just make better targets campaign?
I really hope theyāre good. Itās a fantastic kit and the commander figure is very nicely sculpted.
I have two of those and both have rotten tracks. Iām hopeful that Revell will reissue it in the near future so I can get a replacement set.
I keep meaning to see if the tracks from Airfixās Sherman will fit.
The back up plan is to put one on the back of the Diamond T transporter and display it as a breakdown.
Hmmmm, guess that I may have to give it some consideration since it involves the ONE TRUE SCALE and smaller as options? Now the difficult part, trying to decide on which stash occupant to employ!
I know 1/285th is popular in the U.S. but donāt forget on this side of the pond 1/300th is more common, just as ships tend to be 1/1200th scale rather than 1:1250th in the U.S.A. Speaking of ships, there are quite a few vehicles available as accessories for 1/350th ship kits if you like to store your dioramas in a cigarette packet (or 1/700th if you like dioramas on a postage stamp, but that is getting a bit sillyā¦).
Somewhere (if I can actually find it) I have a towed Rapier AAM battery in 1/300thā¦
The smallest I have in my stash are these 1/700 Churchillās by LāArsenal. Beautifully detailed and cast for the scale. They even have each tiny little wheel! Theyāre cargo for some Skywave LCTās. Somewhere I have Skywaves vehicle set which has M4ās, GMC trucks and a couple of other things.
Sherman tracks are wider, even in this scale. Not sure the Airfix Sherman ones will fit. Here are the Stuart tracks against a set of Matchbox Sherman ones (The M7 Priest set from the build my son never finished - might finish that as well as the Stuart; we will see) as you can see, the tracks are wider even in this scale.
As to Revell releasing it, I heard a rumour the mould was in the Ukraine. It was being leased by a company over there - using the kit to offer a Russian version. That company went bust and the company that bought them out is refusing to release the mould.
Canāt say how true it is, nor the other rumour that Revell Germany may invade to get it backā¦
A good point, but there is a reason behind my mad idea. The old Airfix Sherman is underscale, closer to about 1/87 than 1/76. So it might be a good donor.
Of course I canāt prove it till I try it, and it probably wonāt work anyway. Just a theory at the moment. I havenāt seen my Stuartās since moving house and theyāre still packed away in a cardboard box.
I do remember building both the Airfix and Matchbox Shermanās in my youth and noticed how small the Airfix one was in comparison. Of course both of those have long disappeared at my parents house. I might have a few pieces of track in the spares if Iām lucky to make a test.
Iām glad that yours have survived. Itās such a rare kit these days. Hopefully whoever has the moulds will see fit to reissue it someday.
Which reminds me, I have a sealed Panzer III I need to crack open and check the tracks.
Now the difficult part, trying to decide on which stash occupant to employ! 
