In the pre-dawn hours of Dec. 7, 1946, the submarines I-501, I-503, and I-505 surfaced two kilometers of the coast of california,
a mere ten klicks north of Los Angeles. Massive door opened on their bows, and out paddled the last gasp of Imperial Japan,
the 200 ton GohtenGo...Mission: Destroy Hollywood!
Armed to the teeth with a 90mm, 2 x 47mm, 2 x 70mm*, a single launcher for 200mm artillery rockets, and the ultra secret 'Zero
cannon', these steel behemoths would wreck great destruction before ultimately being stopped mere blocks from their
objective by a determined company of visiting Cascadian militia, and a sadly inaccurate map that neglected to include a
specific terrain feature - the la Brea Tar pits.
I didn't really think I'd get as far as I have with this, and for what is really my first nearly fully scratch-built armor, I'm
reasonably pleased. The body is .04 sheet, with not-structural elements in sign sheet - which I'd guess is about .01,
but without a micrometer I wouldn't swear to it. The main turret is a much modified Panther turret from a Hasegawa
kit. (Hows
that for violating a Panther?
) while the sub-turrets are built up from a combination of styrene tube,
sheet, and a bit of Aves putty. The pontoons are next.
* Maybe. I'm thinking of mounting two more sub-turrets on each of the pontoons.