![]() ![]() It is remote controlled with the power pack and smoke generator fitted into the cab, and there is also a sound system supplied that would require fitting by the new owner. The scale model transporter is described as having all axles, steering and trailer linkage working just like the real thing. The scale model transporter is described as having all axles, steering and trailer linkage working just as the real thing (Picture: PA). The tank has a power pack, remote control unit, sound system and smoke generator, and is complete with the Armortek certificate stating this is number nine supplied by them in kit form. "She's put up with me doing this, you know, and given me support. "She doesn't really understand any of it, but she's put up with me doing the original lorry all those years and that's unique," he said. He said that his wife Diana Hopper, 79, a retired schoolteacher, had been "very supportive". ![]() ![]() ![]() "But nobody makes these – that's the only Scammell model tank transporter of that scale in existence as far as I know." "People like Airfix and the plastic kit, they probably do one which is about six inches long," he said. He said that he believed the 1:6 scale transporter was unique. "Some of the parts I obviously had to get made – some were made in my old company, some were made in other machine shops, then I bought all the driving gear." "I'm basically a draughtsman, I suppose, an engineering draughtsman by trade, so I had a number of drawings from Scammell years ago, then I was able to produce drawings. "I finished the tank then started to make the articulated trailer and then the lorry part." "While I'm fiddling with that and making that I think I've got enough information to make my tank transporter the same scale and then the tank will sit on the back. You put it all together and it's remote control. Anyway, I bought a model tank from Armortek. "I was a bit bored to tears in retirement and my nephew had got a business friend in Braintree who built model tanks as a hobby," he said. ![]()
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