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Old 17-09-20, 19:32
Jakko Westerbeke Jakko Westerbeke is offline
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Originally Posted by James P View Post
Hey, give them some credit for at least attempting to paint them in a "military looking" paint
His actual complaint was not so much that they took a military green from a DIY store, but that they have one of the world’s best collections of original British manuals, instructions and more for this kind of work, and didn’t bother looking at them to see which colours the vehicles should have.

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Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering View Post
At the time they sold Cookie, there was an ongoing conflict between the Overloon museum and the people from the Marshall museum collection. The M4A4 was in the Marshall museum collection, so if Overloon would have sold that one to Italy, than I am sure the conflict would only have gotten worse!
Ah, that makes sense, yes. Better sell the one you own than one you don’t.
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