Wasn't like this when I was a boy!

Steven Ford · Post by **Steven Ford** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:30 pm

I just have to get one of these for grand children when they appear.

There's a few related clips too and in the picking lists a Discovery based German armoured car - looks very good.

Steven Ford · Post by **Steven Ford** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:42 pm

Ah! Just discovered the main site;
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate ... rmd%3Divns

Good videos too.

Dennis Jones · Post by **Dennis Jones** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:53 am

I think there is somewhere in the UK that does it. I remember seeing a documentry on the construction of the tank and some guy has got about 10 of them on his farm I think.

Dennis.

Ad Wouterse · Post by **Ad Wouterse** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:13 pm

Hi Steven,

The kids tank is a home-made project.
Here http://www.commandojurre.nl/ you can find how you can build it for your future grandchildren

Steven Ford · Post by **Steven Ford** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 6:31 pm

Thanks Ad

I enjoyed going through that site. The links have got some interesting items - there's a whole tracked vehicle scene that I had no knowledge of.

Steve

Robert E Morey · Post by **Robert E Morey** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:01 pm

The smile on the kids face says it all. Cool project! Thanks for posting! Bob

Paul Wills · Post by **Paul Wills** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:20 pm

Hi Steven,

Another good link, you should post some of your 1.1 half-track photos that you restored

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A question I have been burning to ask, did they have tanks when you were a boy, or was it ballista's and trebuchet

sorry couldn't resist

Paul.

Steven Ford · Post by **Steven Ford** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:07 pm

Without my woad, loin cloth and flint axe I do not feel properly dressed! Can't be doing with these new fangled trebuchets and whatnot.

The hand-tinted Daguerrotypes of my half track are currently lost under a pile of wax cylinders of Disraeli's Greatest Hits in my cave. I will try to find them for you.

Steven Ford · Post by **Steven Ford** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:05 pm

Gad! The wonders of electricity...

Try: http://dwimorberg.com/sf/

Years ago I had a number of articles published in Off Road and 4 Wheel Drive magazine including the above one on my half track. Also included on the list is a handful of photos. As you can see the machine was mildly tarted up for use on the road - indicator lights etc. The modern military headlights were 150watt jobs, you could fry eggs on them.

The machine also appeared in Bart Van Der Veen's Wheels and Tracks magazines several times and is, I think - in its current form, the last photo on the last page ever published.

I also had articles published on fantasy cars, a Champ and Alvis Stalwarts. The article on Stalwarts has been very widely plagiarised in books and magazines ever since as it was the first long technical article to appear in the civilian press.

Hope you like the stuff Paul.