Quickie WW1 British Gun Carrier.

[uncle les]

To showcase some new Eureka Miniatures 20mm (1/72) tank figures I whipped up something a little different from the usual Whippet, Tadpole or Mother..  It starts life as a rough 3D printout

Then it gets smoothed out and detailed in the usual way


Scratchbuilt an 18 pounder to sit in it.


A little paint

et voila



The smudges, glue stains and other sins will be cleaned up in the coming days


 :)

[Buzzbomb]

wow a wickerwork tank... that will trick them

Came out a treat Les.. great work as usual.
Good to see you whip out a weekender..... again.

[Brian da Basher]

You could really fool a lot of people with this magnificent self-propelled gun, Les!

The paintwork is especially nice and hit's that Great War look dead on!

You should enter this beauty in the Great War GB!

Brian da Basher

[uncle les]

You could really fool a lot of people with this magnificent self-propelled gun, Les!

Thanks Brian - wasn't my intention to fool in this case !!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Carrier_Mark_I

Good call re the WW1 build - I'll see to that now.
 

[GTX_Admin]

Wow!  Seriously wow!

[Brian da Basher]

You could really fool a lot of people with this magnificent self-propelled gun, Les!
/quote]

Thanks Brian - wasn't my intention to fool in this case !!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Carrier_Mark_I

Good call re the WW1 build - I'll see to that now.
 

Thanks for adding this great gun (hehehe) to the GWGB and for adding to my (admittedly limited) knowledge of AFVs!

Brian da Basher

[Buzzbomb]

You could really fool a lot of people with this magnificent self-propelled gun, Les!

Thanks Brian - wasn't my intention to fool in this case !!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Carrier_Mark_I

Good call re the WW1 build - I'll see to that now.
 

Les was stupidly referring to the initial 3d print texture.. oh well that line fell flat.

The gun carrier has been on my "one of these days" 1/35 list  from Panzershop for a number years.
For when you get around to it in 1/35
Panzershop 1/35 Gun Carrier
One of these days

[uncle les]

Also, an interesting thing I learnt from this was that this intended not as an SP but simply a mechanised carrier - ( I thought SP as soon as I saw it) - there were only a few dozen made ending up as supply carriers - some with the cannon dolly deleted. 
The idea was to just get the cannon there without all that messy mucking about with horses...  then I'm guessing at some stage someone stood back, looked at it and thought - why don't we just leave the arty on board and make the whole thing an artillery piece...    I have read that whilst this was possible in theory it was never recorded as ever happening.
I'm tempted to enter "whatif" territory and create another British WW1 landship specifically as a front-line support SP arty with light support weaponry..
I did do a master for Eureka Minatures many years ago for his Victorian Era steampunk wargame "Pax Limpopo" - a 28mm scale British Pangolin class landship ( HMS Chelmsford in this case)

..and those aren't WH40K or spacey figs - they're Pith-helmeted Poms in steam-powered armoured suits

[uncle les]

Sorry Brian (Thewlis) - I got what you meant - ( and I giggled a chirlish David Mitchell laugh at the wicker concept ) -  my comment was in response to moderator Brian as in "this was actually a real thing" and not a whatif...  even though this is essentially a whatif site...    and I could have done with that pic you referred to earlier today !!
 

[uncle les]

All tidied up and deemed finished. 

[uncle les]

One more while I'm on a roll...  unlike the Mark 1 this one's fiction - my take on a late war/post WW1 SP based on a MkVIII.  Did they have Caunter schemes back then ??

render render render flip


print print print remove


cut cut cut stick


I'll have another shot at it tomorrow night when I get some more downtime.
 

[GTX_Admin]

Another masterpiece in the works...

[Buzzbomb]

I like where it is heading already

[uncle les]

Construction finished we'll move onto slapping on some paint

whipped up a limber too !


first shot at gaudy scheme done - I'll work on it further, not quite sure what colours I want..

[Old Wombat]

Purple was often a favorite amongst WW1 camouflage gurus.

[uncle les]

Purple was often a favorite amongst WW1 camouflage gurus.

hmmm...

[Queeg]

Muchness to like here there is ......     Great stuff, I envy your ability to draw/render and print parts 

[uncle les]

Whipped up a base from a previous project:

a little airbrushing

and we're here

I took Old Wombat's advice and added some purple






That'll do for now.   :)

[mrvr6]

that build is awesome
you actually listened to what 1 of us nutters told you? LOL

[GTX_Admin]

[Old Wombat]

Ni-ice! :)

And, yep, the purple looks "right".

[elmayerle]

Awesome piece of work there.  Bravo!!

[Brian da Basher]

Once again, your paintwork is simply superb! Not only appears historically correct, but weathered perfectly!

Brian da Basher

[Volkodav]

I could see Monash asking for something like that to be put together for one of his offensives, or more likely Blamey as he was apparently the innovator, the one who pushed for the tactical implementation of new technology.

Superb job, so totally believable, I could see it in one of the war memorial dioramas any day.