Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Completed GBs => Group and Themed Builds => April Fool's Day GB => Topic started by: raafif on March 17, 2012, 05:23:48 AM
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When the IDF received its first M-109 155mm S.P.Guns, the West-German "Gepard" Tank was the latest in anti-aircraft vehicles. Left with, now surplus, 105mm M-108 chassis, the IDF decided to convert them to AA vehicles using the Gepard turret. These vehicles were stationed on the lead-in routes to the largest IDF air-bases to counter attacking Egyptian & Syrian fighter-bombers.
Model's chassis was an Italeri M-108 "throw-out" freebie from a friend - (a poor build that needed cutting & fixing), front 1/2 inch of the rhs is now solid bog.
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/mt3.jpg)
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/mt1.jpg)
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/mt2.jpg)
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/mt4.jpg)
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Wicked!
It certainly looks convincing.
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Great Build.
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Absolutely fantastic!
Brian da Basher
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Very well done.
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Certainly gives one pause to consider such vehicles as the M108/M109 as a platform for such a system if there is sufficient space in the hull for the turret to fit.
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Certainly gives one pause to consider such vehicles as the M108/M109 as a platform for such a system if there is sufficient space in the hull for the turret to fit.
Certainly does.
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Excellent concept and your advertisement will fool most!
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Thanks guys ! actually the turret ring of the M-108/109 is larger than needed for this so a filler would be needed in 1:1 scale too.
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Thanks guys ! actually the turret ring of the M-108/109 is larger than needed for this so a filler would be needed in 1:1 scale too.
Of that I have no doubt.
I was more concerned with the depth of the Gepard turret and whether the M108/M109 hull could accommodate it. Not that it really matters, it still looks very convincing.
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Looks most excellent. :)
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Absolutely brilliant! :)
The poster looks rather interesting, too. Don't think I would've been able to pick just one subject for this conversion. The other chassis options would've looked great and plausible as well.
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Totally plausible. I could see these being used in Lebanon during the worst of the urban battles. Yeah, 35mm's a little heavy for street-sweeping, but the IDF have always liked big hammers.
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An amazing build
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Totally plausible. I could see these being used in Lebanon during the worst of the urban battles. Yeah, 35mm's a little heavy for street-sweeping, but the IDF have always liked big hammers.
Jason's right. And I'll add that this model would look like a seller at an arms exhibition
Rafa
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Brilliant. 8)
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Fantastic! Slip it onto an armor table at a show and it'd probably fool just about everyone :)
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What a great adoption and utilization of a perfectly useful chassis - for although the 105mm gun of the M108 might be obsolete, the chassis is still a great layout for an SPAAG system!
M.A.D