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| Subject: | Re: Building a collection of WW2 tanks from all countries |  |
| Date: | Feb 5, 2008 |
| From: | Bruce Probst | |
>If some one wanted indeginous production only that would preclude Australia (except for the Bob Semple tank)
A-HEM.
The "Bob Semple" tank was from New Zealand, not Australia.
Australia did have its own tank -- the Sentinel. There's a nice photo of it on the home page of "ANZAC Steel" - http://anzacsteel.hobbyvista.com/
More information about this tank (which never actually saw action) is at http://www.armytankmuseum.com.au
No kit of it so far as I'm aware. I'm sure Dragon will get onto it as soon as they finish with German prototype vehicles. (Ha!)
An Australian design (or modification, to be more accurate) that *did* see action was the Matilda Frog -- a Matilda with the 2-pounder replaced with a flame-thrower. It was used in the Pacific theatre (particularly in the Tarakan operation) and was quite effective. Again no kit of it that I'm aware of but I reckon that it would be a relatively simple conversion of a Matilda kit. (Tamiya, I guess, if we're talking 1/35.)
As for Hungary, they had quite an active AFV industry and designed and built several vehicles during WW2. Their big problem was their lack of sufficient industrial capacity to build them in any great numbers. The Toldi light tanks and Zrinyi assault gun (inspired by and very similar to the German StuG III) were their most famous offspring. |
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 | Building a collection of WW2 tanks from all countries - Paul A. Owen - Feb 3, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Building a collection of WW2 tanks from all countries - Dave Clark - Feb 3, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Building a collection of WW2 tanks from all countries - Juan Contreras - Feb 3, 2008 |
| . . . Easy and hard at the same time - david nickels - Feb 4, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Kits too - Paul A. Owen - Feb 4, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Maybe only one kit of a tank anyway - David Nickels - Feb 5, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Building a collection of WW2 tanks from all countries-Paul - Michael Bedard - Feb 4, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Building a collection of WW2 tanks from all countries - Eric Scurlock - Feb 4, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Building a collection of WW2 tanks from all countries - Gary Cooper - Feb 5, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Building a collection of WW2 tanks from all countries-Gary - Michael Bedard - Feb 5, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Building a collection of WW2 tanks from all countries-Gary - Gary Cooper - Feb 5, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Building a collection of WW2 tanks from all countries-Gary [IMG] - Gary Cooper - Feb 5, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Toldi-Gary - Michael Bedard - Feb 5, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Building a collection of WW2 tanks from all countries-Gary - Michael Bedard - Feb 5, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Building a collection of WW2 tanks from all countries - Bruce Probst - Feb 5, 2008 |
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