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Old 10-29-2014, 11:41 AM
Olefin Olefin is offline
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Actually I have - keep in mind that Littlefield restored his vehicles when they were done to basically either production or better than production condition - and many of them had working armament as well historically

Here he is getting not only more spare parts during the war as the Army tries to bring older equipment back into order out of storage depots but has access to their remaining stocks after he officially makes the Collection available to them.

The tanks for instance I choose have working armaments in real life with the exception of one Sherman tank. That is why the AMX and the M103A2 werent in the first batch - he needed more parts for them to get them fully working.

Most likely the wear value of most of the vehicles would be either a 0 or 1 at the most - with the ones that never got restored being from 7 to 10 - what he first sends out are the fully restored, fully armed vehicles. Its amazing how good his restoration work was. There were WWII and Korean War vets who said what he did was in better than factory condition.

For instance he has two Staghounds - one is in terrible shape and would have been used to get the other one ready. There are vehicles that were barely started in their renovation - both of the Jagdpanzer Kanone's he had for instance were very rough - probably wear value 9 or 10 - so not all of them are going to be able to be made useable. But the repair facilities are perfect to get damaged M1 tanks and Bradleys back into shape as well

Last edited by Olefin; 10-29-2014 at 11:47 AM.
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