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Location: Beauvais, 60000, France
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Latest Activity: Jun 10

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Eaglemoss 1/43 AFVs series N°4: The Cruiser Tank Mk VI Crusader III

Started by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN Feb 15. 0 Replies 1 Like

Hello, you!I get this morning the fourth issue of this new 1/43 series launched in France by Eaglemoss: it's the Cruiser Tank Mk VI Crusader III A15 from the 6th Armoured Division, Pichon, Tunisia,…Continue

The new France Eaglemoss "WWII Véhicules militaires" test series.

Started by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN Feb 1. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Hello, m8s ! I got this morning by my newspapers shop the 3rd issue of the new 1/43 Eaglemoss AFVs series, launched as a test exclusively in France: it's a French light tank SOMUA AMC…Continue

My CORGI 1/50 AFVs series (very few of course regarding CORGI products !!)

Started by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN. Last reply by Ahmed Misbah Oct 19, 2012. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Hi, mates!Here are my diecast CORGI 1/50 AFVs collection:3 Churchills1 Centaur A27L2 Sherman M4A23 SdKfz7…Continue

My AFVs ALBUMS

Started by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN. Last reply by Ahmed Misbah Sep 25, 2012. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Hello, all!Here are the links to my updated AFVs albums on the site!Hope they will be of some interest for a lot of you !!Take care, all!Jeff…Continue

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Comment by Ahmed Misbah on March 17, 2013 at 1:06pm: My Russian tank collection:

From bottom to top:

KV-1
T-34/76
T-34/85
IS-2
IS-3
T-54
T-55
T-62
T-64
T-72
T-80
T-90

And most recently a KV-2 heavy tank:

Comment by Ahmed Misbah on March 17, 2013 at 1:01pm: My German WWII Panzer collection:

From left to right - bottom to top

Pz 38(t), Pz. I, Pz. II, Pz. III, Pz. IV, Panther, Tiger, King Tiger, Maus

Comment by mario jimenez on June 26, 2012 at 5:38pm: very beautiful collections of 1/72.Jean....wish i could broaden my collections too in the coming months....am just a newbie with diecast armor collection

Comment by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN on June 26, 2012 at 12:44pm: Hi, people: here is my FOV 1/72 AFVs and trucks WWII collection:

From first rank to last, left to right:

Pz IV, PzJäger 38(T) Hetzer, Wespe,

SdKfz 2251/1 Ausf D "Stuka Zu Fuss", KingTiger, Panther,

Büssing-Nag truck,

US M3 Lee, Sherman M1A1 w/ mine roller, GMC 2.5t truck,

LCT (wearing a Dragon Armor Sherman 105mm howitzer), M3 w/ 105mm howitzer,

UK M3 Grant, Churchill Mk VII.

Same collection, other angles of shots:

Still diecast most of components!

Ciao, mates !

Jeff

Comment by mario jimenez on June 16, 2012 at 4:50pm: I finally decided to join the armor vehicles in my diecast collection.Years ago, i enjoyed building plastic models from Tamiya, mostly tank and have always liked it. Having just posted some pics I recently got....i hope you like the pics....cheers

Comment by mikeindigokiloecho on October 16, 2011 at 8:21pm: Awesome info! Many Thanks!

Comment by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN on October 12, 2011 at 2:07am: SORRY!!!

I forgot one of the most important diecast series:

Corgi's 1/50 AFVs. I own 9 models of this collection.

Comment by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN on October 12, 2011 at 1:40am: Hello, Mike !! Very happy contaminating a MAC member to ground armored bugs !!

Q1: generally speaking, and regarding only static models, the scales are from 1/144 up to 1/32. You can find some enormous exceptions like the Tiger I at 1/16 from FOV/Unimax. But Two models and your room is full !!

Q2: Hobby Master, Dragon Armor, Easy model Ground Armor (preassembled prepainted Trumpeter models), Forces of Valor (FOV/Unimax), Panzerstahl, IXO, aso ...

Q3: Metal (zamac?) / plastic parts. It is to be noticed that what they call "diecast" is more and more plastic for metal raw mat. increasing costs. But some brands try to maintain, as HM, Panzerstahl, FOV or IXO. For FOV, they are issuing new series in plastic at lower price.

Q4: It depends on the Brand. I found a mix of metal chassis/plastic turrets, plastic chassis/ metal turrets, the oldest models I got are entirely diecast.

Q5: Plastic wheels in most of the cases for finest details at 1/72.

Q6: Generally, turret rotates, gun elevates. Wheels are fixed as the models are for static exposition.

Q7: My recommendations are for the 1/72, with some exceptions for 1/48 or 1/35. I have no 1/32 FOV, only some 1/72.

-1/72: HM, Dragon, Panzerstahl, Easy Model, IXO, FOV

-1/43: IXO

-1/48: HM

-1/35: Dragon

I hope that this will help!!

Kind regards

Jerff

Comment by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN on August 24, 2011 at 3:00am: Find more on my Photo Albums !!!

Comment by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN on July 27, 2011 at 1:02pm: Here are my last HM shipping SdKfz 222 Leichter Spähwagen 1/48 and the same in Dragon Armor 1/72!!