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Quote from: zenrat on January 23, 2024, 03:53:39 AMSo what you are saying is that while use of the vehicle may have begun in the fifties or earlier and/or continued into the seventies and beyond, to be valid for entry into this GB it must be finished in a specification and scheme it bore between 31/12/1959 and 01/01/1970?

affirmative / yes

Now I'm wondering it it was possible to get the MBT-70 into service before 1970. Not sure if enough Handwavium exists in this universe.

Sure you could because if one wants to be accurate the 1960s - the seventh decade of the 20th century - started 01 January 1961 and ended 31 December 1970. There's never been a year Zero.
 

It has been argued (not by me) that the sixties didn't really get going until 1964 with the Beatles and didn't finish until '73 with the oil crisis.

That would be a very Boomer biased pop-culture based sociological definition rather than calendrical or historical.

After all my tribulations in obtaining my Revell F-111C, I wondered whether the F-111 might be an eligible build for this one?

Quote from: Leading Observer on February 06, 2024, 07:36:33 AMAfter all my tribulations in obtaining my Revell F-111C, I wondered whether the F-111 might be an eligible build for this one?

Can't see that being a problem LO mate ..the F-111 is bang on the money for this GB .
First flight: 21 December 1964
Introduced: 18 July 1967
 

Quote from: Leading Observer on February 06, 2024, 07:36:33 AMAfter all my tribulations in obtaining my Revell F-111C, I wondered whether the F-111 might be an eligible build for this one?

yes mate right on the money

Quote from: NARSES2 on February 05, 2024, 06:32:01 AMI can see that argument having been 12 in 1964. They were certainly two distinctly different half-decades

I was almost MARRIED in 1964! One year later and I was! 

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Quote from: NARSES2 on February 05, 2024, 06:32:01 AMI can see that argument having been 12 in 1964. They were certainly two distinctly different half-decades

I was almost MARRIED in 1964! One year later and I was! 

So that would be December 64 and January 65 then       

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Quote from: NARSES2 on February 05, 2024, 06:32:01 AMI can see that argument having been 12 in 1964. They were certainly two distinctly different half-decades

I was almost MARRIED in 1964! One year later and I was! 

That's because you're OLD! (Both of you! )

Just keep getting older, please!  

Actually I got married, the first time, in Sept '65.

And I'm planning on getting a lot older, there's LOADS more kits still up in The Loft!

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 07, 2024, 09:48:48 AMAnd I'm planning on getting a lot older, there's LOADS more kits still up in The Loft!

Good!

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Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 07, 2024, 09:48:48 AMAnd I'm planning on getting a lot older, there's LOADS more kits still up in The Loft!

Good!

Damn skippy Kit 

Skippy is definitely '60s.

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I've had a rummage in my spares boxes and came across a 1/32 Triang Frog Austin 1100 reg Frog 042.
I only have the bodyshell plus the fitted chrome plastic parts.
The underside






Is this allowed as I intend to add wheels and alter the bodywork, taking it from a 'toy' to a model of one of the prototypes with a bit of whiffery thrown in?

For clarification there's a similar model on eBay reg FROG 041, with a motor. Could be converted into a slot car.

Quote from: McColm on February 19, 2024, 07:54:48 AMFor clarification there's a similar model on eBay reg FROG 041, with a motor. Could be converted into a slot car.

It'd be possible, but far too heavy. Those FROG car kits were moulded from lead based styrene I reckon, it was SO thick and strong!   

The Airfix MG 100 made a much better slot car, they even sold it in that market at one stage, but only as a kit.

Your FROG 1100 would be good as a static model though.

Quote from: jcf on February 09, 2024, 09:38:21 AMSkippy is definitely '60s.

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Hahaha..nice one Jon   

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Quote from: McColm on February 19, 2024, 07:54:48 AMFor clarification there's a similar model on eBay reg FROG 041, with a motor. Could be converted into a slot car.

It'd be possible, but far too heavy. Those FROG car kits were moulded from lead based styrene I reckon, it was SO thick and strong!   

The Airfix MG 100 made a much better slot car, they even sold it in that market at one stage, but only as a kit.

Your FROG 1100 would be good as a static model though.

I got the idea from looking at the Crayford four door saloon conversion into a split tailgate, Creech Motors used the MG GT tailgate for their Mystique.I'm not too sure if there was ever a three door hatchback but there was a three door estate, Morris Traveller and the Austin Countryman.
I don't know if the Morris Nomad was ever sold in the UK unless it was imported from Australia .