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Who would have thought it, a Rolls Royce. It looks very nice indeed and an engine to boot....nice one Armortek. Now I see the connection with the Rolls Royce Mark is restoring lol! So there is hope for a Matador?....Phil.

What an awesome release! Though I am biased... More on that later.

I don't think it gets more British... or better-armoured than an Admiralty-Pattern Rolls-Royce Armoured car! The vehicle that sort of kicked off the whole mechanized battlefield! And 100 years to the day (almost... Jan 22, 1918) since Lawrence of Arabia, Dawnay and the rest of the merry band started to put them to great use in the Hejaz? 100 years ago, they were ripping up railroads, blowing up bridges and making life otherwise miserable for the Central powers...

Not to the mention, they were in use until WW2... all over the World. And when the Ghost chassis were long in tooth, the Armour got pulled off and refitted to Ford chassis. Rolls-Royce armoured cars were part of the first 'combined operations' in WW1 and took part in one of the first real modern "Hostage Rescue's" when they saved the crew of HMS Tara. Served in France, West Africa (present-day Namibia), India, Iraq (where Kermit Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt served with a squadron)... they were the armoured rock stars of the Great War! Hard to get more iconic than this famous shape!

Can't wait to build this kit! Or should I say all three! It will be my first "big" Armortek kit (I have a 25 pdr, a limber and a PAK40). But this is going to be an amazing build! My order(s) are already in!

Cheers,

RPR

Armortek pushing the envelope ..... and aiming for the classic car market as well ! Hope it hits all the targets.

A couple of questions, though:

1. What are the 'limited numbers' of each type ?

2. Will the Armoured Car be fully motorised (wheels and turret) and r/c'd ? Is there room in there for all the boxes (including sound but, personally, I wouldn't bother with a smoker) and a motor ?

An impressed,

Chris

Since we have 2 overlapping threads I am closing this one.

Conversation can be continued here ....
http://www.armortek.co.uk/Forum3b/viewt ... 622#p59617

Chris, I will answer your questions on the other thread.

Kian