Questions about the Tamiya Matilda

Aurora-7

Member since
December 2002
From: Connecticut, USA

Posted by Aurora-7 on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:59 AM

Thanks, J-Hulk. I'll send it out tonight (US EST).

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J-Hulk

Member since
February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:45 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Aurora-7

Well, then J, would you consider an e-mail from me that has a scan of the page that refers to the mantlet option and tranlate?

Sure, send it on!

~Brian

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Aurora-7

Member since
December 2002
From: Connecticut, USA

Posted by Aurora-7 on Monday, June 28, 2004 10:29 PM

armorchris,

I'm relatively new to armor modeling and I've just started collecting WWII AFVs in the last few months. The Matlida is my latest aquisition. Like hooldum38 says, it holds up well to contemporary produced armor kits.

I chose the Matilda because I wanted a good representative of British armor in the North African Campaign and from what I've read the Matilda was fits that role perfectly. I may not start building untill late summer. I've got a few aircraft kits I want to finish up first.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 28, 2004 7:23 PM

let me know how that works out, with the Matilda. After reading tons of books on north africa, i really want one, and the kit makes me curious. so let me know how the build goes and construction and such.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 28, 2004 6:59 PM

I built the Tamiya Matilda when I was in high school, and fortunately, my kit had English instructions. If i remember correctly, this kit had an optional mantlet with a mounted flamethrower. I was just looking at my old Matilda yesterday and I was really amazed how well the kit stands up to today's standards.

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Aurora-7

Member since
December 2002
From: Connecticut, USA

Posted by Aurora-7 on Monday, June 28, 2004 3:21 PM

Ah, thank you, CC!

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 28, 2004 1:19 PM

heres some sites that might help you for refference
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/html/unitedkingdom/matilda_photos.html

more under the Comenwealth link here http://www.jagdtiger.de

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Aurora-7

Member since
December 2002
From: Connecticut, USA

Posted by Aurora-7 on Monday, June 28, 2004 12:28 PM

Well, then J, would you consider an e-mail from me that has a scan of the page that refers to the mantlet option and tranlate?

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J-Hulk

Member since
February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Monday, June 28, 2004 9:46 AM

I yanked my Matilda out of the closet to see if I could help you, but then I remembered my Matilda is from Tamiya Brazil, and the instructions are in Portugeuse. Japanese, no problem, but Portugeuse, problem!

And not being a Matilda expert, I can't rattle off any stats off the top of my head.

So, in other words, I can't help ya!
Just wanted to let ya know that I tried, though!

~Brian

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Aurora-7

Member since
December 2002
From: Connecticut, USA

Questions about the Tamiya Matilda

Posted by Aurora-7 on Monday, June 28, 2004 8:28 AM

I purchased a Tamiya Matlida Mk.II from ebay and just recieved it. It's an older kit where the instructions are completely in Japanese. While I can easily follow the contruction steps I have a question about the optional mantlets. The kit provides two different ones and I wanted to know what the differences are. One has the fixed machine gun mount and the others seems to have a kind of jacket around the base of the cannon barrel. I'd like to model a 'typical' North African Campaign Matlida and would like to now which one of the mantlets best represents that.

Also for color, what did the British use for painting thier AFVs in North Africa? Is there an out-of-bottle color that represents this?

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