Another partwork magazine I have been collecting is Military Vehicles magazine (Which is rather a plain name, but quite descriptive of the contents). Issue three of the magazine (of which I bought some additional copies) offered a model M1126 Stryker and a model Bergetiger.
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| And all for under NZ$15 an issue. |
Now, while having multiple model Strykers is very useful, having multiple models of a vehicle that most likely only one ever existed of, is somewhat less useful.
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| Tank and spare parts. |
Fortunately, I had spare parts from one of the many different Tiger I kits put out by Hasegawa, and thus I had a solution for one of the extra Bergetigers. (One of the others I sent over to Paul at Plastic Warriors click
here to see his post on it).
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| Useful spares. |
The first step was to remove the crane and winch, which according to some (click
here for more detail) is too small to use as a recovery vehicle, but was actually designed for use as a demolition charge layer. Other theories are discussed
here.
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| And all gunned up. |
I have of course kept one for use as a demolitions tank, or workshop tractor, or even an ARV!
