Vintage Wargaming: Armtec Armour Artillery Accessories

Sunday 16 August 2009

Armtec Armour Artillery Accessories

While redoing scans of the Der Kriegspieler lists in an old Walthers catalogue from 1975 I came across this list of Armtec conversion kits and accessories. It also includes some metal artillery models I had never seen before - for example a 17pdr anti tank gun. I think these metal pieces may not have been distributed in the UK.

1 comment:

John Orange said...: They were certainly available: when I worked in the local model shop in the 70's and 80's, we used to sell them.

I can't remember who the importer was, but they were never very successful, because they were expensive.

John; 22 August 2009 at 08:41

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