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That's high quality snow they are cutting. Looks like the new neighbours will be good ones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3pd-wxNEKQ Terry

It''s -20C (-3F) and going down to -25C (-13) overnight but tomorrow night will be a more seasonal -31C (-24F) ^&cool No warming trend for at least 2 weeks but not a concern until it goes to -40C. Terry

Winter is coming. An Arctic cold front will cross Toronto on Sunday with bursts of heavy snow. This will be followed by an Alberta Clipper on Monday with the first widespread snowfall. It will snow most days for the next 2 weeks and the daytime high temperature will stay below freezing...

Probably yes. Here are Girkhas manning a 6 pdr in Tunisia in 1943 And some at El Alamein in 1942 And early in the North Afrika campaign Terry

They frequently got bent or broken off in use anyway Terry

I don't think the BT-5 was at Stalingrad. By late 1942 there were almost no BT-5 in front line service. The tank strength at Stalingrad in August 1942 shows a few T-26, some T-60, about 40 KV-1 with the bulk of the tank strength being T-70 and T-34. Terry

It makes sense that FL made a T-70 given that Stalingrad is a feature series for them. And there were quite a few T-70 at Stalingrad - from memory 60 or 70 spread among 5 or 6 tank units. They were common in the first 2 years of Barbarossa with more than 8000 produced. Even K&C produced a...

My grandfather also fought in WWI in the Army of the Tsar. He's the one sitting and the resemblance of me at 20 to my grandfather at 20 in the photo is uncanny. I've been told that he was in the Cossack Cavalry and was a translator. He did speak several languages and had a real affinity for...

What a letdown. I was all psyched up to watch a game 7. Might we hope for another juiced ball slugfest to erase a 5 - 0 start? Terry

Same thing just happened to me. I had to reset the format to "default format" Terry

Nam for me too Terry

I'll buy them too Terry

I saw a photo of the Tiger II glacis from a better angle and the slope looks OK. Terry

Brad. Is it a trick of the camera, angle of the photo and all black colour that makes the slope of the Tiger II glacis appear very shallow? Terry

The 8.8 cm KwK 43 L/71 came in two versions. The first version had a monoblock one piece barrel like the one on the Figarti prototype. Due to the high rate of wear on the end 2/3 of the barrel, a two piece barrel like the one in the photo was produced allowing replacement of just the end...

Really. Why do you have this happen only late at night? Is it because it's dark or is alcohol involved? :rolleyes2:^&grin Terry

Also the 35R was in the fighting at Arnhem in September 1944 Pz.Jg.Abt.684 was equipped with 6 - 4.7cm PaK(t) auf 35R (f) This model would make good opposition in an Arnhem diorama and there are probably some photos of them in the many books on Arnhem. Terry

I'd like to put this one on the list of 10. And why respond to just me when 2 other collectors went into detail broaching the subject before I posted anything. Otherwise it's a very well done model and I would be first in line to get one with a Normandy paint job. I suspect the camo is...

Some 200 were produced and many went to several Anti-tank Battalions for Barbarossa where they replaced 3.7mm towed anti-tank guns. The 4.7mm gun was superior to the towed 3.7mm gun and they saw combat but performed so poorly mechanically, the units went back to their towed 3.7mm guns. The 35Rs...

I dont know of any method to raise a gun on a K&C AFV model other than moving it by hand and relying on friction to keep it in a raised position. The guns raise easily enough if the model was designed to allow the gun to move. I suspect EA058 gun is fixed in place in a lowered position. DD030...