Total Pageviews

Greetings!

'A gaping silken dragon,/Puffed by the wind, suffices us for God./We, not the City, are the Empire's soul:/A rotten tree lives only in its rind.'

Thursday, 11 October 2012

Ferdy ...

... finished:


A nice looking kit. I am very tempted to buy another, and source a cheap Stug III for its coupla, so I can convert the Ferdinand to an Elephant.


And, below, in company with a (very old, early 1980s) Esci Marder:


Just look at the size difference. The Czech arms industry was certainly a major asset for the Germans, and one that was pretty much out of reach of Allied air attack for most of the war.


An interesting conundrum - cheap, quick, straightforward, and plenty of them, or big, complicated, and few of them ?

8 comments:

  1. Would an Airfix Stug be of any use?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Indeed it would. And should you have a spare one going, I will gladly rescue it from your clutches - for I have seen your new post, you apostate!

      Delete
    2. Drop a comment on the blog with your email and I'll delete it afterwards.

      Delete
  2. Ah, as one horrible little man once said, "Quantity has a quality all its own." :-)

    Nice work.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yes. Indeed. And Uncle might have been right back then (unless you were one of the many millions who died because of it), but does it still apply now, I wonder? For example, the current issue about $1 billion aircraft for the Royal Navy's new carriers. Is $1 billion apiece too much? Would it be better to have more, but less sophisticated? I don't know.

      Delete
  3. Terrific job on this humongous beast Stephen. I do think you should get onto another one ASAP.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. It looks quite the thing - I'll definitely go for another.

      Delete