Sometimes I suffer from a silly scratchbuilding syndrome.

Every once in awhile I get bored with building models of "real armor" and start thinking......"what if"'.

Then I start thinking......"why not"?

These are a couple of the things I have had fun with that got out of hand. They might not have happened if someone had taken the glass of Bourbon off of my workbench, but hey.......when you're retired, senile and live alone......ya get to do what ya want!

The six wheeled, quad .50 armored car is my idea of a T17E2 Staghound on steroids, or maybe a T19E1. I had the tires from a Toys R Us thing in my junk box and a spare 21st Century Sherman, a 21st Century M16 halftrack, and a spare Tamiya turret. Put all of that stuff in a box with a Dremel tool, some glue and paint...... and shake well........ for about a month. Out will come a weapon that would have won the war in 1943 if I had been a designer at Aberdeen back then! This vehicle is R/C.

The halftrack (3/4 track?) with the 40mm AA gun on it is what I imagine Ward LaFrance and Marmon-Harrington would have come up with if they had collaborated on a project. But Ward LaFrance/Marmon-Harrington is too long a name to type and it wouldn't have fit on the grill over the radiator. So I named it my Mack/Reo. That's easier to spell. This was supposed to be R/C, but that didn't happen. Not yet anyhow. It rolls and steers, but that's all so far. The suspension was inspired by the French and Italian tanks, the White T17 and the Mack T19. I built the 40mm AA gun a long time ago and took it off of the trailer chassis it mounts on for towing . This thing is my answer to the German Sd.Kfz 7/2.

Then there's an armored fighting vehicle I call the "Shermgeschutz". It's my answer to all that German stuff that is similar in appearance. I posted it in the Gallery a long time ago............ Well, here it is again. It is not R/C. I wish Mato would come out with VVSS track with duckbills, then I could convert this to R/C.............. grousers would be cool too.

I have one other goof ball item on my shelf, but I don't have the guts to post it. I don't want to be banned from the forum and called rude names.

Does anyone else out there build stuff that never was? Please tell me I'm not the only one.........