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Nice little vehicle! Who makes it?
In the 1980s I had pen pals in Czechoslovakia. I sent them Tamiya aircraft kits and they sent me HO scale vehicles. Mostly military but often civilian or dual use, like this one. They disappeared after the Cold War ended. The models and the pen pals!
I hope you remember your experiences with your pen pals as being mutually beneficial. I can understand your excitement in getting hold of some rare vehicles.
Back in the 1990s, there was an American who lived in Russia and worked for the US embassy (if I remember correctly.) I don't know if he was a hobbyist. But he sold some really interesting Russian books about the Russian military, books which simply weren't available in the US otherwise. I think he had ads in the old MWAN newsletter. I bought two of his books, both of which dealt with the eighteenth century. Even though the text of both books was in Russian, the illustrations of the soldiers of Peter the Great, Paul I, etc. were first-rate. The American seller even provided a partial English translation of one of the books.
Sadly, the American bookseller's business was short-lived. He was expelled from Russia for some unfortunate reason and could no longer work with Russian publishers to share their work with the West. I remember reading his own account of what happened; it must have appeared in MWAN.
Thanks for letting me ramble. It's really wonderful to acquire something unusual and rare from a foreign source.
I remember reading MWAN and even having a couple articles and letters printed, good publication; Hal was a very kind man. Yes, those were the best of times and the worst of times. I got a lot of vehicles that disappeared after the Iron Curtain fell. They were all good guys that I worked with. I corresponded with people from Poland, CZ, and Bulgaria and even the Soviet Union.
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