After reading Chris's post regarding the QL,there is very little I can add.Although I didn't realise the moldings were so old.
Anyway preamble over on to the pics

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The instructions,in classic Airfix fashion
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And the Sprue
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and the decal sheet
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As you can see the components a surprisingly free of flash (for a molding that has been in use continuously) and has a fair degree of detail.I'm beginning to look forward to starting this build,but need to do some more trawling on google first.....

So there you have it.

Take care and happy 4th to all the Yanks reading this
Woz

The Airfix Matador refueler is indeed a very nice kit; even if it was a brand-new release. It goes together very well and certainly look the part. Enjoy your build, as I certainly enjoyed building it last year. Some pictures shows the result OOB.




Cheers and remember to post often, Vic

...If I can get it looking as good as yours I'll be more than happy!

Woz

There is something about these Matadors.... I just like the looks of them, and it's always a treat to see pictures of them

Very nice build, good weathering

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William De Coster / Belgium

Current Airfix GB projects :
1/72 Ilyushin IL-28
- Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI - Part VII - Part VIII
1/72 Focke Wulf Fw-190F-8
- Part I

...unofficially it was often called that (apologies if you knew that already, just trying to help).

Regards
Steve


'A child of five could understand this. Someone fetch me a child of five'. (Groucho Marx)

Still I like this type - Matador or not

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William De Coster / Belgium

Current Airfix GB projects :
1/72 Ilyushin IL-28
- Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI - Part VII - Part VIII
1/72 Focke Wulf Fw-190F-8
- Part I

....again I too have learned summut new!Thanks for the tip.
If anyone else has any relevant information regarding the AEC,please let me know,as I want to do you all proud with this build
Now on to dealing with me hangover......
Woz

...bent strips of steel, with some nominal stiffening ribbing rolled into them at the edges (war austerity production).

The 'fancy' curved edged ones you tend to see on restored vehicles, would have been post war production or replacements. So the thick plastic ones on the Airfix kit (easier to injection mould), parts 65 + 94 and 95, are not really correct, they either need thinning down or replacing with plastic or metal strip (if you think its worth the effort).

The only other part I'd query, is part 120, the 'firewall' partition between the back of the cab and the main tank. Not sure that all 6x6's had this fitted ('check your references' as they say), but some do seem to have something in this position at least from the chassis downwards, behind the front wheels (maybe the upper part was removed/removable or an option/not fitted. Again, not sure it's that important, but I thought I'd mention it.

BTW, I have this kit (well two of them, and a Recovery Set and half a dozen of the 4x4 Matador artillery tractors). No longer my scale (now 1:48), I actually got them for a crazy notion I had, to model the vehicle fleet of a firm of concrete engineers my dad worked for in the 1950's. All their main vehicles were ex-military (as was the case for many firms starting-up after the war), which also included a CMP truck and for mobile crane work; a Ruston Bucyrus tracked excavator and a Thornycroft 'Amazon'. Time and interests move on though (but I just can't bring myself to dispose of the kits just yet!).

HTH

Regards
Steve


'A child of five could understand this. Someone fetch me a child of five'. (Groucho Marx)