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Monday 25 March 2013

It's an...

... ambulance! Just as Xaltotun of Python correctly identified the bones yesterday. Well done, that man! And he provided a very nice link to a large scale version - here. My PSC conversion is now more ambulance-like:


Still some bits and pieces to do,


including some stretchers for the  body of the vehicle.


And, perhaps, some unit markings.


The inspiration for this wargame conversion came in this marvellous old copy of Airfix Magazine from February 1970. It is absolutely packed with a feast of articles - including, a scratch built Deacon SP (I will, without doubt, have to have a crack at that), a late production Sherman with HVSS, railway modelling, aircraft modelling - all in the smallest type face, matched by often indistinct black and white photos. But one of the clearer ones is:


'A carrier ambulance of a New Zealand armoured regiment in Italy', from Peter Chamberlain's series, 'The Carrier Story'. This series was later turned into the Profile hardback book, Making Tracks; the Carrier Story, by Chamberlain and Ellis. I have that book, but the all white NZ carrier ambulance does not feature in it. 

I rather enjoyed bashing that PSC conversion, and the assortment of old 1960s and 1970s Airfix Magazines that I recently e-bayed tempts me to do more.  Perhaps a carrier shower, a ghost carrier, or a tea and buns carrier...



13 comments:

  1. Great stuff - will it be featuring in a game ?

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    1. Well, not in the near future. I've had plans (for several years) to make my garage/shed warm and empty enough to use for a permanent gaming table. The roof was lagged last year, but now I've got serious problems with damp ... Hopefully, before I pass on..

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  2. I confess. I recognised it because I'm an aged person with Airfix magazines going back to the 60's - and I made one from that article. Though I thought it was an earler mag.

    Have to admit, I preferred some of the other answers more.

    Rob

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    1. Marvellous! I don't suppose that you still have the carrier ambulance? It can't have been that long after the tiny Airfix carrier and 6 pounder came out. I started getting Airfix Magazine in the early 70s, but, sadly, lost most of them later when I 'lent' them to a 'friend' !! But, I've been buying the odd one or two recently.

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    1. And, more importantly, easy!! Actually, I suppose there is an infinite 'family' to be made of the carrier... I can feel a new obsession coming on!!

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  4. The Kiwi Carrier was later turned into a dairy milking unit...True story!

    Nice job Stephen.

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    1. Right, we need to know more about that eminently NZ use for the carrier. Let us know, while I go and source some 1/72 cows.

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  5. Great conversion there.
    By the way I twice tried and failed to leave comments here yesterday but to no avail.The joys of Blogger what!

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    1. Strangely, one of your comments was here for a bit, then it disappeared. Odd. The snow?

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  6. Ah ! the dear old Airfix magazine - that takes me back to my distant youth !!!

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    1. Indeed, they are minor works of art, have been smiling and sighing over them for the last few days.

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  7. A very fine conversion. I had no idea there were such uses for the UC and I imagine it would be a bone-jarring ride while lying wounded on a stretcher.
    Can't wait to see the NAAFI Tea and Bun Carrier.

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