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Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Land => Topic started by: stevegallacci on June 19, 2015, 01:28:55 PM

Title: Waffentrager Tiger + 17cm gun
Post by: stevegallacci on June 19, 2015, 01:28:55 PM
The Trumpeter kit dressed up into a operational machine, brackets for cables and skirts and pioneer tools added as well as some misc. stuff inside the gun compartment. The gun carriage is modified a bit to be fixed in the hull as mobile artillery rather than simply being carried into an emplacement. Still need to add a recoil spade.
Title: Re: Waffentrager Tiger + 17cm gun
Post by: GTX_Admin on June 20, 2015, 04:26:53 AM
Looks good.
Title: Re: Waffentrager Tiger + 17cm gun
Post by: raafif on June 20, 2015, 06:34:37 AM
 :) looks neat. would like to see it with the skirts & overhead armour for the crew.

need to get one of these ... fold the sides down & mount Takoms new twin Flak ;)
Title: Re: Waffentrager Tiger + 17cm gun
Post by: Buzzbomb on June 20, 2015, 09:33:48 AM
Really nice work on the paint
Title: Re: Waffentrager Tiger + 17cm gun
Post by: stevegallacci on June 20, 2015, 11:04:20 AM
:) looks neat. would like to see it with the skirts & overhead armour for the crew.
Overhead armor? Never seen any ref for that. The skirts would likely be shallower and untapered versions of Tiger skirts.

need to get one of these ... fold the sides down & mount Takoms new twin Flak ;)
The 12cm Flakzwilling is likely too big for the hull (?) On the other hand, I've got a very cunning plan for an armored transport for the unit that I've had around for decades. On the other, other hand, I've got a plan for an E-50 type suspension version of the waffentrager to carry a one meter mortar (more of a rocket projector, but really 100cm calibre)
Title: Re: Waffentrager Tiger + 17cm gun
Post by: raafif on June 20, 2015, 03:23:55 PM
The 12cm Flakzwilling is likely too big for the hull (?)

possibly ... or possibly not - all those Pz-38t-based waffentragers were overloaded (recoil) but they still got off the drawing-board (shake-head emoticon) .... I have widened a few hulls now so the Flakzwilling's size wouldn't be a problem ;D

On the other, other hand, I've got a plan for an E-50 type suspension version of the waffentrager to carry a one meter mortar (more of a rocket projector, but really 100cm calibre)

Ditto !!  must get back to my Sturm-Elephant (SturmTiger/ Elephant combo).
Title: Re: Waffentrager Tiger + 17cm gun
Post by: GTX_Admin on June 21, 2015, 03:27:07 AM
The 12cm Flakzwilling is likely too big for the hull

Bah!  Put the Flakzwilling on a Hetzer hull...after all it was used for just about everything else... ;)
Title: Re: Waffentrager Tiger + 17cm gun
Post by: Jeffry Fontaine on June 21, 2015, 06:26:40 AM
The 12cm Flakzwilling is likely too big for the hull
Bah!  Put the Flakzwilling on a Hetzer hull...after all it was used for just about everything else... ;)
a true fire and forget-one shot weapon system :)