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The following Photographs and information have been donated by Battlefrontmodels Customers over the years they range from basic to customised RC tanks and vehicles to heavily modified models.

All images and data are copyright to the Members and BFM

DID YOU KNOW

Between 1939 and 1945 the contents of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum were stored in a deep stone quarry at Westwood in Wiltshire, but the best kept secret of all was the hiding place of the Crown Jewels.

To this day the hiding place has never been revealed and is still considered to have a 'D' notice upon it.

A 'D' notice is a Crown British Gov't gagging order of secrecy and if spoken about you would be considered a traitor... and possibly shot.

These orders still exist today in the High Court.

' Late Tiger 1 '

Sent in By

Owen Long, Bexley Heath. Kent. UK

Tri colour Tiger 1 with Commander and a rider.

Nice job Owen.

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' T34 / 76 Special Build '

Sent in By

Peter Symonds of Nottingham UK

This model was a T34/76 was a standard model WSN RC T34/85 hull with 600 parts from the Trumpeter T34/76 1942 static model kit grafted onto the top.

It still has the sound of the origional RC T34 and still drives but the gun is inert and the turret is no longer motorised. I could have grafted the turret rotation unit onto it but the 85' has a larger turret ring and you would have been able to see the nechanism through the top hatch so I finally decided that absolute accuracy counted more than RC function for this one.

The two tanks share a lot of featuressuch as identical suspensionand drive sprockets so it was easy to put the wheels from the '76 onto the '85 hull.

The insignia is of the 24th tank corps T34/75 which was part of the 1st guards army. They provided the main thrust of armourduring operation Uranus which cut off the German 6th army in Stalingrad.

Funnily enough the T3 and the Pz.III are exact counterparts... 24th tank corps vertually destroyed the 24th Pz division. The SU-100 and Jagd are also similar adversaries, And both are Budapest veterans.

Peter Symonds

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DID YOU KNOW

In 1942 in the Russian tank factories used large numbers of small Children on the vast assembley lines they were cheap labour and could work in very tight places within the tanks

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' Panzer III model J3 '

Sent in By

Peter Symonds of Nottingham UK

This Model J3 has a good winter effect painted over a grey - blue base, plus really effective back drop semi diorama.

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See photograph above nice use of pigment to produce foot fall damage, rust and paint wear.

DID YOU KNOW

The only nation that Germany declared war on was the USA.

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"Come Let Me Show You Where The Iron Crosses Grow"

A Pz. III with Schurzen Plates (No. 234) and in the backgrouns a Tiger sheltering beside a Farmhouse in Russia

A Pz. III with Schurzen Plates this time in early Colour note the weathered Tri camo.

A Pz. III heavily snowed in looks like Russia all white camo similar to Peter J3 above.

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