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Post by JEFF on Jan 13, 2024 21:31:12 GMT
My goodness. Look at you go. . Great work on that wiring,Dude.
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Post by tanksami on Jan 14, 2024 6:54:28 GMT
Paul it sure looks like you are doing a great job!! Great kit “You” choose 😂😂🤣🤣
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Post by The Kernel on Jan 14, 2024 10:49:19 GMT
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Post by Paul B on Jan 14, 2024 12:42:38 GMT
Jeff cheers muchly ole chap Mike murky buckets fella , and yes I am enjoying my choice Bill those are very much the same as the pics I took at the Panzer Museum too . Cheers anyway mucker flic.kr/s/aHsjXeefK3
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Post by Paul B on Jan 14, 2024 13:54:54 GMT
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Post by jabbly on Jan 14, 2024 14:30:07 GMT
So trying not to derail the thread, but why is the engine painted with lots of green?
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Post by The Kernel on Jan 14, 2024 14:53:41 GMT
Cant believe I went to Bovington a few years back and didnt see the 234. Oh well cant be helped now!!!!
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Post by Paul B on Jan 14, 2024 15:11:09 GMT
So trying not to derail the thread, but why is the engine painted with lots of green? Jase I do believe that is the original (repainted) Tatra engine colour
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Post by Paul B on Jan 14, 2024 15:22:48 GMT
Cant believe I went to Bovington a few years back and didnt see the 234. Oh well cant be helped now!!!! Take a holiday in Germany and visit the Panzer Museum in Munster, you could also go to the Wehrtechnischer Studien Sammlung (Military Technology study/Collection) in Koblenz and then pop over to Technik Museum in Speyer. If have the time and energy you could then travel back through Holland and Belgium. There you have the Overloon War Museum, The Cavalry and National Military museum in Amersfoort (NL). Then Site Gunfire near Antwerp, The Military Museum in Brussels, and of course the war museum in Bastogne .
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Post by The Kernel on Jan 14, 2024 15:40:20 GMT
Couldn't face the drive mate. Used to drive every day when working but drive less than 2k miles a year. :)And it's bliss!!!
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Post by Paul B on Jan 14, 2024 15:46:38 GMT
You can get to all of those Museums on the Eurostar, except Bastogne and Sinsheim
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Post by jabbly on Jan 14, 2024 17:39:11 GMT
So trying not to derail the thread, but why is the engine painted with lots of green? Jase I do believe that is the original (repainted) Tatra engine colour So to derail the thread, again, but do you know why that paint was used. Is it some ‘special’ coating or was there some other advantage to making it green. I can feel a separate thread being created as I think it was at Bovington seeing a similar painted engine. The Chieftain perhaps?
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Post by Ian H. on Jan 14, 2024 18:34:17 GMT
That interior is looking excellent, Paul! Thanks for posting the 1/1 scale photos. I had no idea one of these was still in existence.
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Post by Paul B on Jan 15, 2024 5:50:25 GMT
Jase I thought that is what you was getting at, the first time you asked. The famous "Duck Egg Blue" on all British vehicle engines has a simple reason, it's so you can see were there is a possible oil leakage. Also being a light colour, you can see the engine better at night with low-tack lighting (red). That means you can change the engine, at anytime of the day or night.
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Post by jabbly on Jan 15, 2024 9:26:01 GMT
Jase I thought that is what you was getting at, the first time you asked. The famous "Duck Egg Blue" on all British vehicle engines has a simple reason, it's so you can see were there is a possible oil leakage. Also being a light colour, you can see the engine better at night with low-tack lighting (red). That means you can change the engine, at anytime of the day or night. Thanks Paul, it’s one of those things I’d never really thought about to now.
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Post by nito74 on Jan 15, 2024 20:31:32 GMT
Cant believe I went to Bovington a few years back and didnt see the 234. Oh well cant be helped now!!!! Take a holiday in Germany and visit the Panzer Museum in Munster, you could also go to the Wehrtechnischer Studien Sammlung (Military Technology study/Collection) in Koblenz and then pop over to Technik Museum in Speyer. If have the time and energy you could then travel back through Holland and Belgium. There you have the Overloon War Museum, The Cavalry and National Military museum in Amersfoort (NL). Then Site Gunfire near Antwerp, The Military Museum in Brussels, and of course the war museum in Bastogne .
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Post by nito74 on Jan 15, 2024 20:34:18 GMT
That's some great work on the wiring Paul. You'll have a blast with these Dragon 234, they are great kits, some of the best Dragon kits I've built. I feel awards and medals coming your way again ...
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Post by Robbo on Jan 15, 2024 20:34:52 GMT
Very nice start Paul, I so want to do a Dragon kit, got a few to choose from too
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Post by Paul B on Jan 20, 2024 19:24:38 GMT
Thank you chaps and sorry for the build delay here . I have gotten caught in the damned detail and info searching trap again . I have added stuff that nobody will ever see when it's done, I still don't understand why I bother doing that . Also while searching the net, without any useful things turning up, I remembered that German Heavy Armoured Cars book I got for x-mas . In that book, the Pakwagen from Fort Benning is shown, after looking at that and the one in Munster I have noticed that there was at least two versions of this vehicle . The one in Munster I shall from now on, call the early version, the Fort Benning one a late version. The difference isn't much, the upper rear hull armour plate is the only thing I have noticed till now. I thought Dragon had gotten this part wrong as I was concentrating on the Munster version, which has a rear drivers vision block. The Dragon kit has a folding rear plate, which drops down to allow the rear driver to see where he's going, the same as the Fort Benning vehicle.
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Post by The Kernel on Jan 20, 2024 19:47:26 GMT
Nice details there Paul
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