1/35 Tamiya Chieftain Mk 5

[stoves]

Finished this last week.

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[Donkeywalloper]

Nice job on a great tank.
DW

[stoves]

Thank you for the nice comment.

[Meliodas2019]

looks great, nice job

[stoves]

Thank you for the nice comment.

[Hawkmoon]

I always liked the Chieftain ,it looks right and was a great tank for its time. you can still see its influence on modern tanks too. Nice work and top finish

[stoves]

Thank you.

[RangerNeil]

Nice job on a classic of its time.

A quick blast from the past on these beasts - on one of the big 2 week NATO exercises in Germany in the 70's a column of Cheiftains were moving at night and had to pass through a small North German village - cobbled type streets with a more or less 90 deg bend in the centre of the village. Almost inveitably the third vehicle took the bend just a tad too fast and ended up wedged between two homes. REME decided there was no way they could get a direct pull on it sideways to free it so the Burgomeister was dragged out of bed and asked which of the two houses was coming down... Cue in-fighting between the occupants as to who got the honour - because any property damaged was repaired or replaced by the Fegeral German Gov't so who ever won got a new house out of it..... It was a crazy world in those days!!

[stoves]

Thank you for the nice comment.