Curiouser and curiouser. An obscure Norwegian oddity for Jens.
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Spanjaardfirst row available? great, ready for the scratch master class 🙂
and a bit of fun too, of course 😉
gorbyWelcome to the build mates.
Kesa: Sillier the better for me. I go out of my way to find odd things to build. 🙂
Łukasz GlińskiI love the armoured cars and Gorbs' projects - I have to watch this too 👍
CaptGPFI often winder how you choose your next topic for scratch builds! The subject matter is always something different or interesting - and the builds just phenomenal! Taking a seat to see the next creation!
Greg BakerOh, this is cool. I scratch-built an armoured car too - nothing this intense though - so I'm super-keen to see this one shape up.
gorbyThanks both. 👍
Capt: for this one I went looking for something Norwegian, because that was the subject of the GB for Jens. It had to be something I'd be able to scratch build (as I was too tight to open my wallet to buy something. 😄 ). Normally it's because I just stumble on an interesting picture. 🙂
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Norway had a very relaxed attitude to acquiring armoured vehicles. It wasn’t until the mid 1930’s they acquired three truck chassis which they converted into armoured cars. There’s some disagreement to the spelling, I’m going to use Panserbil 21, 22 & 23. Soon after they also bought one light tank from Sweden.
Then Hitler invaded Poland and then it was SHIT!!!!! 😮
As a measure of the military value the Norwegian army placed on their new mechanised armour, they left all four in storage when the nazis dropped in for tea. Oh yes, and a tiny slice of total occupation as well.
Of the three armoured cars I’ll be scratch-building Panserbil 21 in 1/72. It was built on a Morris chassis (possibly a Morris Commercial CDSW) and it turned out to be the less usable than the army hoped it would be as the engine couldn’t cope with the weight of the armour. If I were to place them from first to third, Panserbil 21 would be lucky to come fourth.
So why am I building an obscure Norwegian vehicle? Okay, admittedly I often build obscure things, it’s a Norwegian oddity because it’s part of a memorial group build on another site for Jens H. Brandal who passed away earlier this year at only 59.
