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. 🙂
gorbyNew photos start from number 13
Build stage is now complete, just need to get the crayons out to colour it in. 😉
gorby😄 😄 😄
Soon it'll be a silly, moderately angry grey truck. 🙂
Thanks for your comments mates. 👍
gorbyTeabag-proof is a bit of a stretch. I suspect the insurance would have been void if they drove past Tetley's.
I'm currently making a pigs-ear of the weathering. No change there then. 😄
Thanks Alec. 👍
gorbyI'm not one of those people who claim to have a remarkable super-power...the ability to know what colour something is in a black and white photo. I haven't found anywhere which mentions what colour it was, so I'm going grey. Actually most of my hair fell out before I went grey but that's probably down to living with a daughter all those years ago. 😄
Oh yes, grey. I used Tamiya XF-87 as I thought that would be the most actuate shade of grey for something I know nothing about. Or it could equally be that I've got a lot of XF-87. Seems like a good enough reason to me.
I hope to get the completed pics posted at the weekend.
gorbyThanks very much Finn. 👍
Aaaaaannd…..tis done. Completed photos now posted. Hope you like my obscure Norwegian oddity. 🙂
gorbyThanks mates for your lovely comments. 🙂
Mick: The description on Photo number 13 explains the rivety skin.
gorbyThanks very much Kesa.
This was a very quick scratch-build for me, I think it was a bout three weeks. My Steaplechaser traction engine took about four months to build. Now that was a long wait. 😄
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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.
