| Subject: What Prime Mover ? |
 | Danny Greenway
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| Posted: Monday, October 05, 2009 - 09:04 AM UTC |
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Hi Gang,
I was thinking of buying Revell`s re-release of the Hawk missile battery and this set me to thinking what kind of vehicle was used to tow it ?.
I`d like to know so i could do a mini diorama of one in action with attendent vehicles in the background.Any help would be appreciated.
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 | NormSon | Location: North Carolina, United States
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| Posted: Monday, October 05, 2009 - 09:29 AM UTC |
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Something to take into consideration is that the old Revell kit is 1/40 scale. Most military models produced now are 1/35. That's a pretty significant difference in scale. |
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| NormSon | Location: North Carolina, United States
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| Posted: Monday, October 05, 2009 - 09:31 AM UTC |
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Correction; I THINK that it is 1/40.
Sorry about that. |
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 | Frenchy | Location: Rhone, France
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| Posted: Monday, October 05, 2009 - 10:07 AM UTC |
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It looks like it's a 1/32nd scale kit : Revell Hawk battery Frenchy |
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 | Mike Del Vecchio
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| Posted: Monday, October 05, 2009 - 12:23 PM UTC |
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Scale aside, I think it was towed by the old M800 series 5 ton. You could use the AFV M35 duce and with some scratch work make it a 5 ton.
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 | Pascal Bausset
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| Posted: Monday, October 05, 2009 - 04:37 PM UTC |
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Scale aside, I think it was towed by the old M800 series 5 ton. You could use the AFV M35 duce and with some scratch work make it a 5 ton.
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The M800 series trucks are 5tonner. To buil one there is 3 possobilities : -heavy scrath work, for this you need an AFV M35, a M923 Italrei kits ,the excellent articles from Dave/ Animal (here on Armorama) and lot of pains.... -conversion resin kit with a M923 Italeri kit and a Real Model M800 cab conversion -total resin kit from Realmodel, more expensive but more easy.  |
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 | Joseph M. Callan
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| Posted: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 - 01:25 AM UTC |
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I used to be an IHAWK Radar creweman. The launchers were towed by 5 ton long beds,and the radars were towed by 2 1/2 ton trucks. IIRC any Viet Nam era versions of those trucks would be good up until the Army replaced IHAWK and Nike Herc with Patriot in the mid 80s. |
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| Frenchy | Location: Rhone, France
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| Posted: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 - 02:00 AM UTC |
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The launchers were towed by 5 ton long beds
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| Joseph M. Callan
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| Posted: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 - 03:10 PM UTC |
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That's the one! There was no tarp and most of the launcher prime movers had racks for three missle reloads. |
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