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Claymore's AH AFVs: Take 2

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Claymore:

--- Quote from: The Big Gimper on September 26, 2016, 01:30:53 AM ---I'm not a zipper head but this is an amazing conversion.  :)

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Thanks mate. Sadly these are re-post of old conversions/models necessitated by the evaporation of my original thread...  :( 

I have about another 30 to go...

Claymore:
GAU-19 M1 Comabat Car

Jim Smitty's M1 Combat Car armed with a GAU-19 (6-barrelled, 50-cal gatling gun) for his American Airline Flight 817 TL. This vehicle 'Lightning' is the 6th vehicle of D Company of the 11th Armoured Cavalry Regiment and whilst a light AFV its primary function in the line of battle is the disruption of enemy infantry assaults. Its extremely high rate of fire and heavy 50-cal round also make it devastating in clearing dense jungle, light urban areas and soft/light armoured vehicles.

Claymore:
Wheeled SPAAG

 Attached is RCTFI's wheeled SPAAG come APC to match the requirements of his AH TL. The vehicle depicts the 3rd vehicle of A Company, 27th Armoured Infantry of the 9th Armoured Division. A number of these specialist vehicles were spread throughout all armoured infantry regiments to provide localised close anti-air support whilst maintaining the ability to deploy a half infantry squad when required. Later these vehicles were augmented and mostly replaced in the armoured infantry role by the heavy SPAAGs (watch this space). The wheeled SPAAGs were then re-located to the regular infantry divisions.

Claymore:
The Beast

 The beast features in Life in Blacks (I think still unpublished) AH TL as the command tank, 'Lili' (as in Lili Marleen) of Oberst Anton Weiss of the 1st Brigade of the 37th Panzer Division somewhere in the Middle East.

 The model is a pick and mix of an M1A2 Abrams hull married to a Leopard 2A6 turret with a Challenger 2's side plates and a GAU-19 remote weapons system on top. The camouflage is a take (simplified) on a Canadian desert digi-cam. Mostly painted in with a tooth pick... kill me now!

Claymore:
Armadillo

 This is the 'Armadillo' from KyleB's TL "A British StuG III". The vehicle is essentially a casemated British QF 3 inch 20 cwt, WW1 era, AA gun mounted on a Crusader MK III hull. OTL, a number of these guns were indeed converted to the AT role but not in SP mounts.

 In KyleB's TL the Armadillo (a development of the 'Walrus') is conceived as a counter to the heavy German AFVs beginning to appear in the Western desert which are virtually immune to even the 6 pdr armed British tanks.

 The model is based on a very old Italeri Crusader Mk III with a scratch built casemate. Although it looks quite similar to the Soviet SU 100 it is not based on it at all - indeed a made a point of purposely not looking it up until afterwards. The similarity comes from the basic box like casemate mounted on a Christie suspension hull and that's about it. The model itself depicts the 6th vehicle of B Squadron, 3 Royal Tank Regiment of the 8th Armoured Brigade of 10th Armoured Division.

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