Collectors’ EditionSeventeen 21st March Military Vehicle Special 2014 From the publishers of LT Vz 35 100 PAGE ISSUE Renault FT-17 PLUS Matilda II Minenraumer £4.99 MODELLING gROUP Visit our website at www.militarymodelling.com it’s only a few clicks away! Vol.44 No.4 2014 Published by MyTimeMedia Ltd contents Hadlow House, 9 High Street, Green Street Military Vehicle Special Collectors’ Edition Seventeen Green, Orpington, Kent BR6 6BG Phone: 0844 412 2262 86 From outside UK: +44 (0) 1689 869 840 www.militarymodelling.com SUBSCRIPTIONS UK – New, Renewals & Enquiries Tel: 0844 543 8200 Email: [email protected] USA & CANADA – New, Renewals & Enquiries Tel: (001) 877 363 1310 Email: [email protected] REST OF WORLD – New, Renewals & Enquiries Tel: +44 (0) 1689 869896 BACK ISSUES & BINDERS Tel: 0844 848 8822 From outside UK: +44 (0) 2476 322234 Email: [email protected] 12 KEEPING IT IN CZECH! 60 RENAULT FT-17 – Website:www.myhobbystore.co.uk Mark Bannerman adds after-market THE INSIDE STORY detail products and a colourful John Prigent builds a 1:35 scale EDITORIAL scheme to CMK’s 1:35 scale WW1 tank kit from Meng that’s Editor: Kelvin Barber LT Vz 35 kit. packed full of detail inside and out! PO BOX 6018, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 2RS Email: [email protected] 26 SKODA LT Vz 35 70 HEAVY METAL PREACHER Consultant Editor: Ken Jones WALKAROUND Nick Shuttleworth brings PRODUCTION Dick Taylor provides photo Dragon’s 1:35 scale M7 Priest Design Manager: Siobhan Nolan reference for modellers of this ‘Early Production’ to life with a Designer: Richard Dyer colourfully restored Czech tank. well-weathered finish and lots Illustrator: Grahame Chambers of stowage. Retouching Manager: Brian Vickers 34 1ATB IN FRANCE 1939-40 Ad Production: Robin Gray Peter Brown relates the structure, 76 SOVIET T-24 MEDIUM TANK – ADVERTISING equipment, colours and markings FIRST OF THE BREED Business Manager: David Holden of the tanks of British 1st Army Cookie Sewell looks at HobbyBoss’ Email: [email protected] Tank Brigade. recent 1:35 scale kit for this Tel: 01993 709545 seminal Soviet medium tank. 48 BATTLE OF FRANCE MARKETING & SUBSCRIPTIONS 86 GERMANY’S Sarah Pradhan & Kate Scott MATILDA II Peter Heath modifies Tamiya’s 1:35 ‘GREAT PANJANDRUM’! MANAGEMENT scale Matilda II to one of the earlier Peter Gillson builds Meng’s 1:35 Head of Design & Production: Julie Miller variants serving with 1st Army scale model for the strange-looking Group Advertising Manager: Duncan Armstrong Tank Brigade as part of the BEF in one-off VsKfz 617 Minenräumer Chief Executive: Owen Davies Chairman: Peter Harkness France during 1940. mine-clearing vehicle. elcome to another of our ‘Special’ 100-page editions of Military Follow us on Facebook and Twitter WModelling. This is where we can ring the changes slightly to our monthly editions and include some longer in-depth articles about building military vehicles. 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