They're giving away Pocketbond catalogues. Sorry if this is old news, but the 2012-13 catalogue says they now do a Mk IV Tadpole in 1/72, and that the 1/35 Mk V has been reissued, with "a complete new roof mould. And a complete new frame for different rear horns, cupolas, fuel tanks, exhaust, etc, and will permit either a "Male", "Female", or "Hermaphrodite" version to be built."
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And, what's more, they now have a proper website! I'd given up on them ever setting one up, but there it is. Pocketbond.co.uk
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Cant help thinking their a bit out of touch with their customers, is there really the demand for a one off experimental that never saw action.... surely a MKV or any version of it would have been a better bet.
If were really lucky the rumours of a Schnieder will turn out to be true...
Interesting because they actually quote a price £7.99 for the tadpole which suggests there is a possibility it may be issued. It will be cheaper than getting Matadors conversion. Think on the positive side at least some were built unlike all those '1946' Nazi sets that certain leading plastic model manufacturers keep churning out!
PDA think of all those hours you have spent trying to fit the resin tail to your MkIV.
However I will not hold my breathe as I have been waiting for the release of their Portugese Napoleonic as it still has no price tag against it.
"Think on the positive side at least some were built unlike all those '1946' Nazi sets that certain leading plastic model manufacturers keep churning out!"
Unfortunatly that seems to be the way that many manufacturers go, lots of experimentals or machines that never saw any service or if they did only a handfull at best... WW1 has its fair share too I guess...
Also like the RPM 1/72 Ford Model T MMGS - based on a photo of one which likely never left the UK, at least in the machine gun carrying role. And Matador did a kit of the same vehicle, when they both could have just as easily made one of the Ford Model T patrol vehicles used in the middle east which would be a very interesting kit
PDA think of all those hours you have spent trying to fit the resin tail to your MkIV.
That's one of those myths or curses or whatever they are, isn't it? Like the one about you die if you paint all your figures, isn't there one about model companies watching your projects and bringing out the kit only after you've completed your conversion? Maybe we should all start publicly making 1/72 Mark V tanks. (And by "public" I mean on any forum other than this one.)
PDA: I think it works with classic cars too - as soon as you decide you like a particular car, it rises sharply in value, becoming too expensive.
Regarding Rob's point about experimental vehicles being of limited interest, I suggest that in the case of the Tadpole (which does interest me) it is an experimental machine with a high profile - higher, I think, than the V*, which I only heard of many years after coming across the Tadpole.
For my tuppence worth, I would rather see an interesting vehicle as the subject for a kit, rather than one that necessarily served on the Front. I understand that many people still want an injection-moulded 1:72 Mk V, and it does seem a glaring omission, yet surely a vehicle does not have to have gone into action to have a place in history and be of interest? I suppose it depends what angle each person takes when approaching the hobby - what interests you. I find that most of the rhomboids look sufficiently similar,and are sufficiently common within the subject of WW1 that they are less interesting than the extended tanks (Tadpoles and -stars) and many of the experimentals - a case of "familiarity breeds contempt".
would have been incredible if it did reach the front in time. could you imagine it as beutepanzer; with 7.7 cannons, a couple MG08's or Becker 20mm cannons and a 7.58 light minenwerfer?
that sounds like 1919 or what-might-have-been project.
greetings, Josh
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...that sounds like 1919 or what-might-have-been project.
Plan 1919 was completely unrealistic - the technology just couldn't be implemented in that timescale. However, it did all exist, and if Plan 1919 had been a reality, the British had far better tanks than a Mark IV Tadpole - Amphibious APCs (Mark IX "Duck"), Medium Mark C ("Hornet"), Heavy Tank Mark VIII ("International"), and the Medium D. The Germans, starved of resources by the British blockade, would perhaps have completed one K-Wagen (and then found out that it wouldn't move over terrain - like the A7V), some A7VU, and some LK tanks. These would have been easily destroyed by a Male Hornet or an International, both of which could move over terrain to out maneuvre any opponent.
PDA is right that Plan 1919 was far too optimistic - although I understand manpower to have been a huge problem too, not just building the vehicles. American troops may have supplied the numbers needed when British troops were becoming fewer, but training new tankers would require time.
The best bet for the Germans would have been that the TUF MG reached the front in December 1918, as apparently planned; it would have penetrated the armour of the aforementioned tanks with ease, necessitating much thicker armour (perhaps by bolted-on spaced plating, like the mid-production Schneider). Who knows, since tanks had plenty of detractors, their vulnerability to the TUF could have sidelined them entirely as ineffective; if WW1 had been fought to a natural conclusion, it is possible that tanks might have been abandoned entirely (either during the war, or during the confused thinking of the following decade), and we might have been looking back at them now as a quaint footnote in history - an interesting contrivance quickly rendered obsolete.
Especially if German officers maintained better control of troops in front o Aimien.
Greetings, Josh
-- Edited by FR73 on Friday 8th of March 2013 02:50:53 AM
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