[WWI] RR Armored car from Roden

[Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton]

The turret for a 1914 pattern cars is a few inches lower than that on
the 1920 pattern cars; some later 1914 patern cars actually got disc
wheels, though I haven't discovered whether this was the way they came
or a retrofit.

1/35 has been the armour standard for many years - certainly since the
70s and the vast majority of OT plastic kits are in this scale. There
is  a 1/35 resin kit for a 1914 pattern car from Resicast and a hybrid
1920 Rolls/Fordson car from Jordi Rubio. I have one of the latter and
it's got some issues - nothing that can't be fixed, but  its got
something of a mixture of Rolls and Fordson features - Rolls wheels
but Fordson suspension

There is a 1914 pattern car in 1/32  by Scale Link; it's neither
plastic nor cheap but looks super when finished.  1/32 or 54mm
vehiclesare pretty much the realm of specialist companies such as
Scale Link. Much of their OT production is decidely old school with
white metal castings but it's pretty easy to put together


On 2/6/09, Magnus Berggren <berggren.berggren at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think that among other things, the 1914 pattern need wire wheels,
> something that Roden didn´t felt up to. But from what I´ve heard, it
> shouldn´t be that hard conversion. If my source is correct, we will see a
> 1/48 version in the future too. We had a long argument about why they did a
> 1/35 instead of a 1/32, but at least we might convert it into something on
> topic....
>