1914 RENAULT TAXI TO 1:35 SCALE FROM MACH 2 MODELS OF FRANCE
Here’s a neat little item that was first displayed at the 2014 Scale Model World show in Telford, UK. The 1:35 scale Taxi de la Marne was released by French manufacturer Mach 2, to commemorate the centenary of World War I. Mat Irvine: Didier Palix ( below ) is the founder of Mach 2 models, an outfit that has provided modellers with an intriguing array of aircraft and spacecraft models, many not made by any other company. Didier came up with a rather special vehicle to commemorate World War I, in the form of a Renault Taxi de la Marne from 1914. The taxi is produced to the military scale of 1:35, as it is intended to be seen in dioramas with other military models of the same era. A question to think about is whether this Renault would have been sent to war zones in the decidedly non-military paint scheme depicted by the kit. It may well have been the case, but you could give the taxi a more serious look by adding a coat of khaki camo finish instead, to give it a similar look to the tro...