The idea comes from that famous photo
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And that, my friends, is how you save on after-market tracks…
Cheers,
M
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Old kits with new usesđź‘»
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Awesome job! Looks great.
Heresy!
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And saving time building 1/2 of a model! 
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Good idea when you messed the suspension…
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I saw an M1A1 once that got buried in mud up to the turret. 3 M88’s couldn’t pull it out. They finally decided to padlock the hatches and wait for winter when the ground would be solid and they could chip it out. The Lieutenant who was the TC had to sign a hand receipt for the cost of an entire M1A1 Abrams tank and he was personally financially responsible for it until it was recovered 6 months later.
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During the drawdown in 71-72 in Nam units had equipment that they had “acquired”, but had no paperwork for. Our unit had a water trailer that we used to wet down the haul roads and couldn’t turn it in. All the unit markings disappeared and it was left parked along a back road. And there was also the story about the unit that supposedly buried an entire earth mover. Wayne
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I saw in person a National Guard unit that had one of those beer trucks - refrigerated with the kegs on the inside and the taps on the outside - in MERDC camo. Only for use during the middle weekend, you know…
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What a great recreation
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Scarcely a new thing with the military: when Legio XX Valeria Victrix pulled out of their fortress at Inchtuthil around 86 or 87 A.D. they left behind a carefully concealed pit containing ten tons of worked iron objects, seven tons of which were nails. Probably buried to deny a valuable resource to a hostile local population, the pit remained undiscovered until 1960. Recent excavations at Burnswark discovered a cache of 180 (and another of 375+ from a later excavation) unused sling bullets cast from German lead (vexillations of Legio XXII Primigenia from Mainz and Legio VIII Augusta from Strasbourg were in the neighbourhood in AD 139); of the three types of glandes identified on the site the larger 50g type would have had a “muzzle energy” similar to that of a .44 special…
Regards,
M
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