All things dry and crispy

Hey, its a Valentine. No really, its a tank called a Valentine!

I had quite a fascination with desert armor. And this was way before the US invaded Iraq or Afghanistan. Ever since seeing that old BBC show "The World at War" narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier about the desert war, and remembering that old Bantam book "Brazen Chariots" by Robert Crisp, I've always gone and thought that fighting in the desert in AFVs was akin to taking your tank to the moon. Or something like that. And then, there is that classic footage of some AfrikaCorps panzer crewmen cooking an egg on the roof of their tank.

This here is the Dragon kit (reboxed Alan from Russia) which I bought way back in 1996 on a trip to HK, from Universal Hobbies. I didn't build it until 2001 here in Oz, when on a trip back to Manila I had a chance to bring the unbuilt kit back with me. And my little saga with the desert war continues.