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Saturday, 15 April 2023

Tanks for Everything

 As the recent post about the Swedish 'S' Tank caught our attention, I was reminded of the first time I came across it in the excellent book series 'Inside Information'. Eagle comic illustrator Lesley Ashwell Wood often produced large spreads in the comic of various fictional and real life vehicles and in the seventies, his artwork was featured in a small book series by Benwig Books. The first one I got as a lad was naturally Space Exploration, but I followed it up with a couple of others, as I was impressed with the cool colour paintings. One of my other favourites was the Tanks volume and I have scanned it here. Its showing its age now and some of the scans are a little dirty, but its easy to see the appeal.















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11 comments:

  1. KevinD4/15/2023 6:42 pm

    Still got the Dinky Centurion tank that I had as a child.

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    1. Anonymous4/15/2023 9:41 pm

      Ive got my Airfix Stalwart!

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    2. Anonymous4/17/2023 4:28 pm

      I had a Dinky Centurion tank as well!
      We used it's guns to pummel down castles made out of legos.

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  2. Anonymous4/15/2023 9:41 pm

    Thank you for this. A great post. I think I have the aircraft book somewhere, or at least something very similar.

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    1. Anonymous4/15/2023 9:43 pm

      I have the space, Submarine and racing cars in hardback and a couple of others, including planes, in digital form. Lovely books. Ill put a few more up shortly

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  3. Tony k4/15/2023 10:36 pm

    Ace Post, Bill. Love these illustrations. Always liked the design of the Scorpion which was also an Action Man classic.

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  4. MISH4/15/2023 11:55 pm

    I had the Action Man Scorpion tank.
    This version featured in a model shot in the first Tom Baker Dr Who Story, 'Robot'.
    Alas it was shot on video, not film, and was not recorded at scale speed, so looks very toy like.

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    1. Tony k4/16/2023 11:07 am

      Great memory, Mish. Always makes me smile when I see the Palitoy Scorpion roll into action against the Robot :)

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  5. Hugh Walter4/16/2023 1:25 am

    I've got Ships, Racing Cars and another somewhere, but not, strangely, the Tanks!

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  6. Anonymous4/16/2023 7:58 am

    I miss books like that

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  7. WOODSY4/19/2023 10:57 am

    Don't think I had this series. Overall the feel of these makes me think of Eye Soy books and the small pocket Observers on Space and Planes.

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