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[Shermania84]

Thanks for having me on this forum.

 

My name is Willem, 31.5 years young and just this year I started taking more of an interest in my grandfather's army days with the Prinses Irene Brigade during WW2. What started with a couple of 1/72 Airfix tracked vehicles has now grown into a full blown love of 1/35 Shermans plus a couple of other vehicles that draw my interest. Hoping to learn a lot about the 1/1 side of things and to find whatever reference material (mainly photographic) the books are missing. Currently focusing my attention to a 1/35 M4A3E4 Kelly's Heroes movie build, nobody seems to have any information on how the interior was configured which as of right now is the main point of my reference search.

 

What may also be of interest is that my other grandfather worked for a Chrysler factory in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) where he built the M38 NEKAF Jeep. Recently I locked up the brakes on my car when at the last moment of driving by one a For Sale sign was noticed on the windshield, sadly it turned out to have a first road admission date of 1960 which means not built in Rotterdam from where production was shifted to Dordrecht in 1958, so no direct literal hands on connection to my grandfather.

Edited September 21, 2015 by Shermania84

[Tony B]

Welcome in.

[paul_bish]

welcome on board, they sound like fun projects

[shane.c]

Welcome.