"The Romfell Panzerwagen" Topic
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| Tango01 | 26 May 2020 9:09 p.m. PST |
"The Romfell Panzerwagen was a 1915 Austro-Hungarian armoured car, which had an unusual inward-sloping body, designed to deflect enemy fire downwards. It was designed by Hauptmann Romanic and Oberleutnant Fellner, who combined their surnames to create the Romfell brand name. Their creation had an air-cooled machine gun in a pillbox-style turret. Overall, the Romfell seems like an excellent design, even if it's likely that only one was ever made…"
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 Legion 4   | 26 May 2020 9:12 p.m. PST |
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 ColCampbell | 27 May 2020 8:24 a.m. PST |
Interesting armored car, but "Their creation had an air-cooled machine gun in a pillbox-style turret." Looks like a bog-standard water cooled machinegun to me. And the third image appears to be a type of Rolls Royce armored car belonging to the Royal Navy Air Service (RNAS). Jim |
| Tango01 | 27 May 2020 12:24 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it boys!. (smile)
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| monk2002uk | 27 May 2020 10:27 p.m. PST |
The third image is a Lanchester armoured car. The CSM range includes detailed crew figures as well as a variety of armoured cars in 1/35 scale. Robert |
| Tango01 | 28 May 2020 12:15 p.m. PST |
Thanks!.
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rebases some old soldiers.
