I must say that for WW2 in particular the pipe cleaner option looks better. For WW1 I prefer the Oberst's flames and smoke.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
I do have some flames I got from eBay
Keith has been out of stock for a while
Max, great stuff and great thread - only just come across it for the first time.
I was once informed that Messerschmitt Bf 109Es which were based in Northern France were assumed to have a 'loiter time' of seven minutes over London. This was without any additional fuel tanks to weigh them down.
You could also do with watching the 1969 film 'The Battle of Britain' which was extremely well researched and is a good film anyway. There is something said about loiter time for a Messerschmitt 109 about a third of the way through ...
It's the Matchbox "USS Indianapolis", a 10,000 ton 'Treaty' heavy cruiser (so WAAAY smaller than "HMS Repulse" or "HMS Prince of Wales"!).
These two British capital ships were sunk on December 10th 1941, by twin-engined land-based Japanese bombers, Bettys and Nells.
The aircraft are a mixture of Tamiya and Fujimi carrier-bourne Zekes, Kates and Vals.
I built/painted these around 30 years ago, and rediscovered them 2 years ago, and played a few games. I have since produced some new ships and planes for further games.
I remember the Matchbox construction kit of the USS Indianapolis very well from the 1980s although it was one of their range of ships which I never bought / built. Matchbox only produced a few ship kits which were all 1/700 Scale and these varied from the Admiral Graf Spee to the more modern HMS Tiger - both of which I did buy and build when I was about twelve years old. I seem to remember Matchbox also producing a Narvik destroyer kit along with HMS Kelly (Lord Mountbatten's ship during WW2) which were also 1/700 Scale but I was never interested in their smaller ships just the bigger ones.
I think Matchbox ended up producing ten ship model kits in total but other than the ones I have mentioned and the USS Indianapolis I cannot remember what the others were ...
Last edited by Tonx; 07-07-2015 at 12:29. Reason: HMS Kelly information.
USS Indianapolis
USS San Diego
USS Fletcher
HMS Kelly
HMS Ariadne
HMS Exeter
HMS Duke of York
HMS Tiger (modern-ish cruiser)
Z-38 "Narvik" class destroyer
Admiral Graf Spee
Bismarck
Thanks Tim - I knew the list was about ten or eleven ships long. Everything from destroyers to pocket battleships plus the mighty Bismark. I thought that HMS Tiger was the only modern era ship which Matchbox produced within their range - remember buying it as it came equipped with two helicopters for the large helipad towards the rear. Already had the Bismark in 1/700 Scale by Tamiya (1/700 Water Line Range) as given to me for my eleventh birthday by the time I discovered the Matchbox range of ships.
I have:
USS Indianapolis x 5 ( 1 built )
USS San Diego x 4 ( 1 built )
USS Fletcher x 7 ( 3 built )
HMS Kelly x 9 ( 1 built )
HMS Ariadne x 3
HMS Exeter x 3 ( 1 built )
HMS Duke of York x 1
HMS Tiger (modern-ish cruiser) NONE
Z-38 "Narvik" class destroyer x 6 ( 1 built )
Admiral Graf Spee x 2
Bismarck x 1
They are mostly in storage along with around 400 Tamiya/Skywave/Pit Road/Fujimi/Hasegawa/Aoshima/Trumpeter/Midship Models/Skytrex unbuilt ships!
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