Chips

I got this little gem on a recent visit to the train shop.

They make a nice range of HO scale civilian vehicles.

Fully assembled, painted, decalled, right out of the box for only $5.98.

This is an excellent model of a California Highway Patrol car. I see cars just like this almost every day.

I got these two woody station wagons at the recent train show, they look pretty good with the Crown Vic.

M47

More of my 1950's Cold War US Army. It includes 8 inch and 155 mm self propelled armored guns. Naturally, the mainstay is the M-47 series Roco tanks. Note the tank commanders popping up from the hatch. My battalion command vehicles are designated by the presence of a tank commander.

The corner here has a couple Nike anti-aircraft or anti-missile rockets.

I have a few M59 Roskopf armored personnel carriers. This was in use before the M113 and looks very similar. I am always on the lookout for a few more of these long out of production vehicles. The little green plastic box is my spares box for this storage box. I try and put a tiny box in each large box in case a machine gun or other bit falls off in storage or in play.

I had an old Roco AVLB on the M48 chassis and I backdated it onto an M47 chassis. Call it a prototype to test the theory.

I got an M47 from some Japanese company decades ago that had a terrible turret, so I used the hull to make this AVLB.

Tiger Tanks

The Germans also mixed the early turret and series turret Tiger II tanks in the same battalions, as seen here.

The German TO&E has Tiger tank, all the various tank versions of the Tiger were interchangeable, both Tiger I and Tiger II with either tank turret.

These old Roco Minitanks have been in my collection for a very long time, maybe 30 to 40 years in some cases.

Late in the war, some units were still at full strength, as late as January, 1945 they had at least one battalion of 45 Tiger tanks.

Tiger Battalion

One of my Tiger Tank Battalions in the box.

On the Western Front, the Germans mixed Tiger I and Tiger II with the early turret, into the same battalion.

I have a full range of Tiger tanks, including the Arsenal M Driver Training Wood Gas Fuel version. If the drivers are not trained, then they don't drive my tanks.

Old Roco Tiger tanks. The old Roco was not a bad vehicle, it was just not highly detailed, this is true for both their Tiger I and Tiger II series tanks. When Roco came out with a new Tiger I, I got a few of them but unlike their Panzer IV, I did not replace my Tiger collection with the new vehicles.

A big nasty surprise for any Allied tank battalion.