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Just seen it on the Warlord site. It's a BIIIIIGGGG beastie, isn't it.

I see the guy "fuming" (fumeeing?). You kind of hope the guy carrying the shell is rejecting it as it looks a bit, well, sort of bendy, rather than thinking, "Ah wundere wot weel 'appen if we use zees wonky one?"

The way they’ve painted the shell makes it disturbingly like something you’d find in Purps specialist collection

I am amazed at how familiar some of you seem to be with Purps' specialist collection.

How does one say Pffft with a fronch accent?

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 5:47 pm

Norman D. Landings wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:13 am There’s no ‘fixed’ attachment point for the split-trail legs. They must be sat on the axle ‘freehand’.
And they’re so damn long that any minor variance in angle is glaringly obvious.

Yes, but the important thing is.....that it's FRENCH!!! This means that ANY idiosyncratic and irregular angle is both feasible AND historically accurate. If anyone questions it, simply light up a Gauloise Bleu, shrug your shoulders, and go "Pffftt!" in a Gallic manner.

You have just described, to a tee, the French mechanic who turned up in remarkably swift time (i.e. the following day) at the RAC's behest to recover my military minibus... He was even wearing a grease/food/wine-stained stripy t-shirt and only needed a string of onions and beret to complete the ensemble/caricature.

He looked at the bus, lit up a Galloise, shrugged, went "Pffft!" in a Gallic manner and said "LDV... Sheeet."

Still, he knew that you can get LDV in sheets, so that's something....

Whenever the father of a friend of mine saw someone urinating in the street, he described them as “oozing Gallic charm””

My dad used to say that it was the French peeing on the roads that meant so many roads were 'Chausee Deformee'

Vintage Wargaming wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 1:28 am Whenever the father of a friend of mine saw someone urinating in the street, he described them as “oozing Gallic charm””

It was a common sight in SA

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:12 pm How does one say Pffft with a fronch accent?

With élan

levied troop wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 7:16 am

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:12 pm How does one say Pffft with a fronch accent?

With élan

Outrageously