ORDNANCE Models Page
keywords = "ordnance model Aberdeen Proving Ground tank armor track history self-propelled artillery gun howitzer cannon rifle Maryland Comet Authenticast"
Updated: 05 May 2005, 20:20
ET
(Created 05 May 2005)
[Ref: This is
ordmodel.html
(URL
http://home.att.net/~Berliner-Ultrasonics/ordmodel.html
)]
ORDNANCE
Models Page
Consultant in Ultrasonic Processing
"changing materials with high-intensity sound"
Technical and Historical Writer, Oral Historian
Popularizer of Science and Technology
Rail, Auto, Air, Ordnance, and Model Enthusiast
Light-weight Linguist, Lay Minister, and Putative Philosopher
This site has now been visited 
times since the counter was reinstalled 13 Apr 00.
The ORDNANCE page had to be split; this page is a specialization for models
of ordnance materiel, see also the main ORDNANCE
page, et seq.
INDEX (truncated):
On the main Ordnance page:
Unindexed ORDNANCE APOCRYPHA.
On the Ordnance Atomic Cannon Page:
ATOMIC CANNON
The Ordnance Supergun Page
On the Ordnance Continuation Page 1:
MORE ORDNANCE APOCRYPHA
On the Ordnance Continuation Page 2:
RAILROAD GUNS.
SMALL ARMS.
On the Continuation Page 3:
CALIBER (Calibre).
Anzio Annie.
SMALL ARMS.
Ordnance BIBLIOGRAPHY
Russian Armor.
HELP!
On this Ordnance Models Page:
(05 May 05)
{unindexed to date - please scroll down}
Comet Metal Products Authenticast Models Page.
ORDNANCE MODELS
(05 May 05)
Treasures - on the preceding page, I mention that I found
all sorts of treasures when I dug out my Russian KV-122 model. It has
bothered me that I have all these 1940-1960 models, both factory-built and
kit-made, in every state of condition, and no real use for them, other than to
look at them with great nostalgia now and then. Well, I lost both
grandmothers long ago and my mother a bit more recently, so I can't sell
them off, but I can "de-accession" my models if anyone really wants to give
them a good home. I did that wth my Comet
AUTHENTICAST ~HO soldiers and the Honest John Missile Launcher and
have no lasting regrets, so I guess I could do so with much of the rest of my
expression of severe pack-rat syndrome.
I received an inquiry about a model of an LVT(A)4 as a gift for a fellow who
served in one; I have the Comet AUTHENTICAST one in my set (which I won't
break) but, as it happened, I had a vague recollection of one in about 1:35
scale, went down to the cellar to a box of old models, and, lo and behold,
there she was, a 1958 Adams styrene kit I'd built rather carefully:
(05 May 05 photo by and © 2005 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
She's a beauty, absolutely as good as the day I finished her some 45 years
ago; the 75mm howitzer elevates with a gentle breath, the turret turns
smoothly, the two swivel .50s turn and elevate easily, the wheels all turn, and
the tracks are still supple!
Oddly, she measures out at 7¾" long and the prototype was 26' long,
so that comes out to 1:40, which is not a scale with which I am familiar; but
then I don't remember Adams, either.
Well, some money (NOT an insignificant amount but she's mint and I
put a lot of work into it) is changing hands, she's packed MOST carefully, and
it's "By-bye, baby!"
I recall seeing an M3A1 half track with twin (or quad?) .50s, a Long Tom
155mm towed mount, a single 40mm AA towed mount (no one gets that one
away from me!), a Weasel, a 37mm field piece with revetment, wind-up
lithographed German "tin" tanks from Gama in three "scales", and who knows
what else, and all that in only one box and there are more boxes!
As I get a round tuit, I will dig out more of these gems and post them here.
The ORDNANCE page had to be split; this page is a specialization for models
of ordnance materiel, see also the main ORDNANCE
page, et seq.
THUMBS UP!
THUMBS UP! - Support your local police, fire, and emergency personnel!
S. Berliner, III
To contact S. Berliner, III, please click here.
of this series of Ordnance pages.
© Copyright S. Berliner, III -
2005
- All rights reserved.
Return to Top of Page