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Kaiser


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Currently building, detailing and correcting, the Airfix MK I tank, and I have some questions regarding markings and such.


1) Can I use the included transfer "HMLS Dragonfly", or is that the name of a MK II tank?


2) Did all MK I's carry markings (such as "D7"), or where some of them "bare"?


TIA,


Jochen.



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Mark Hansen


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If you follow the building and painting instructions and use the decals, you will get a model that will resemble Bovington's Mk II how it used to be except that it had one male and one female sponson. Unfortunately this will give you a tail wheel equipped Mk II with inaccurate markings. HMLS Dragonfly was the name that was given to the tank at some stage (David Fletcher doesn't know when but before he was at Bovington) but it's apparently a bogus name. A better option would be to get either the Landships decals or Decalcomaniacs.


All the Mk I's that I have seen at the very least carried their company number above the track adjuster.



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there were some questions very similar to this on the missing lynx forum. a search will find them.


HMLS Dragonfly never saw any kind of service, and wasnt used in the war. There was a HMLS Dragon, but apparantly the font in the transfers is all wrong for that.


Mike Cooper, i believe, is an expert in this department. a search for his name on that forum would be useful



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Anonymous wrote:

HMLS Dragonfly never saw any kind of service, and wasnt used in the war.
If you mean the name HMLS Dragonfly, you're right but the Mk II at Bovington certainly did see service. It still carries it's war wounds (visible on the Mk I-III page on the Landships site).

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yes, i meant that His Majesty's Land Ship Dragonfly (the name) didn't go to war. certainly the vehicle on display at the museum did. but that's no longer called dragonfly.


i wonder if a HMLS Dragonfly saw service in Ireland or some other similar place/conflict?



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