CHEAP VBCW TANKS (2)

Another 1960s cheap plastic toy to use as a "Hollywood style" VBCW tank: 

As with so many of these 1960s products, the plastic toy looks nothing like the dramatic box art, and although the tank vaguely resembles an M-4 Sherman, it is far too "chubby" and stylised to be anything close to a scale model of the real thing. Hence, a perfect product for a VBCW "Elstree Industries" tank:

As a clockwork "friction tank", the toy has 4 road wheels underneath the chassis and slightly 
raised tank treads. The wheels and clockwork mechanism are easy enough to remove, as is the
"trumpet oversleeve" over the barrel (compare first picture with these).

100mm - or just under 4 inches - long. This is about the right length
for a "28mm tank", and the rest of the dimensions follow on from the length.

Two early production models crewed by the BUF go in to action under the command of 
Major Everard (as the then was, now Major-General Everard) at the Battle of Winforton Pontoons

Later production models form the basis of the Ledbury BUF "Mailed Fist" Battlegroup.
For scale comparison, note tank commander, an old GW Imperial Guard Commissar.

A closer shot of the tank commander, whose tank has been converted with a
longer tank barrel (made of plastic tube). The crewed vehicles to the left of this photograph
are "Yone Tanks" from THIS POST, and helpfully "scale compatible".

Unless you are lucky at a car boot sale, if you wish to recruit a force of "Elstree Industries" tanks, Ebay is your friend. A search under "friction tanks" often brings up examples marked at about the £5 range...