Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Review Warbase VBCW Crossley Tender


This is Warbase lasercut kit of a Crossley Motors tender from WWI and the interwar period with an Empress driver.

I found this kit much easier to make than the armoured lorry, possibly because I am now used to how they go together, possibly because I read the assembly instructions this time, or maybe because the vehicle is very square, which suits the material.






This is a diecast metal model of the same truck with an Empress civilian driver added.



 The weird headlights on the Warbase kit are actually not a bad likeness.



The two models together.

This is photo of the real thing in the Shuttleworth Collection.

Converters might be interested in this Crossley armoured car at Bovingdon.




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  1. Meltaburn10 June 2015 at 17:51

    Nice. Think the laser cut one actually compares pretty well to the diecast side by side.

    You must be generating some pretty good traffic to your blog atm to be suffering the attentions of all these spammers on your recent posts?

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    1. John Lambshead11 June 2015 at 14:05

      This laser sut model is very good. There is a staff car version as well. The traffic on this site astonishes me. Thank you all.

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  2. John Stiening10 June 2015 at 23:26

    That's what happens when you write bolt action books. When do we get our ww1 bolt action supplement?

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    1. John Lambshead11 June 2015 at 14:06

      You would have to ask Osprey/Warlord about that. I am just a humble hack-for-hire. :)

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  3.  Ashley11 June 2015 at 08:54

    You've been spammed, oh dear. Useless bunch of neer do wells. Nice modelling.

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    1. John Lambshead11 June 2015 at 14:07

      Spammers are a pain but I try to keep the comments section of this blog as open as I can.

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  4. Dave Drale11 June 2015 at 23:02

    Dear John,
    For a time in the early '50s, the family's second car was a Crosley sedan from about 1947. The only thing I'll say good about it is that they didn't explode in the garage as the slightly earlier model with the sheet-metal engine block was wont to do.

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    1. John Lambshead12 June 2015 at 16:54

      LOL, thse were the days of real motoring, Dave, when men were men and ladies wore stockings to wrap around the alternator.

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