As I’m finding out Tom - the hard way; see:
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Yeah, but it’s only his head! He catches the bullets in his teeth…
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@Jacko464 Sorry Ivan, not a job I’d fancy but then again someone has to do it.
Planning on doing both a AVRE 165 with dozer, fascine and stores trailer with either another fascine or if I can find enough info and can scratch a trackway load in the trailer.
Then a AVRE 105 with mine plough, Giant Viper and empty fascine carrier.
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Maybe that is why a figure is not included 
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At first I was afraid of 3D models, then one day I stopped being afraid.
But plastic ones are better for me - they have more details, and assembly is the main thing I love in our hobby.
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Really like that T-29 and the armored coupe on the lower left.
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Urban, has my vote. Only because I have done one.
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Been looking at that on SMM, but then this caught my eye
…then I remembered I’ll need to get bits for my Stally when SMM bring them out! decisions, decisions.
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Inside the Armour has released quite a few sets for the Stalwart already.
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Yes I’ve seen their bits and pieces, I’ll wait and see what SMM bring out. I’ve used a lot of SMM update sets on my Scimitar and Ferret builds and I like them, casting/printing is top notch.
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Vigilant? I’ve got some early 1960s sales brochures for that. They include some pictures of it on a Ferret even then.
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Well, I remember back in the day Vigilant was touted as the be-all and end-all, the answer to all armoured threats on the battlefield. Whether or not for instance, it could deal with a T-10 I’ve no idea, but I suspect I’m recalling the same brochures as you have, often on the military displays I visited as a kid.
I was profoundly disappointed when I saw the thing close up; surely a missile should have a pointy end, not the truncated nose it did have, but then, as a 7year-old, I’d been brought up on Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds, so surely a half decent missile should be sharp? I was underwhelmed.
Ditto when I saw the firing device; two pistol grips and then, well, nothing! I was completely unaware of the wire-guided concept, and probably wouldn’t have understood it in any case.
I’ve seen Swingfire in action but never saw Vigilant fire, but hey! Happy days!
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When you consider what it replaced (Malkara), this thing was state of the art and about a quarter of it’s size.
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Yes of course - Malkara was huge! Funnily enough, it was still around at Tidworth around 1971 I think. Withdrawn shortly afterwards.
An RAOC Ammo Tech I deployed with on Loan Service in Oman, told me that amongst the trade, the old joke was that if Malkara didn’t detonate (apparently it often didn’t), it didn’t matter much as it would push the enemy tank over!
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There was advertising by Buick though …
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I have these:
The greenish one is thicker and more extensive than the white, and also has some different photos, like the Ferret from the left front rather than the right.
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True, and those names appear to have stuck in modellers’ minds.
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Could well have been Jakko; I was so young I wouldn’t have known what I was looking at, but at these large military displays they nearly always had the manufacturers alongside the Army stands. I used to come away with armfuls of whatever was going - and kept none of course.
There were cut away versions of the real thing and stuff like that. Decades later when I was in uniform, I was lucky enough to attend a similar display, and I do remember the Hunting Engineering stand with models, the real thing, and even looped films of the BL755 cluster bomb, which was then touted as the solution to Soviet armour attacks.
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Well, a cool name triggers the imagination more than a bone dry type designation.
‘Hellcat’ has more punch to it than ‘M18’
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