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2,0 cm Infantry Support Weapon
Jeffry Fontaine:
I have been working intermittently on a project that involves kit bashing a pair of 1/35th scale Tamiya kits. One of these is the FlaK 38 2cm in the single mount and the other is the 3.7cm PaK. Both kits have their good points as well as bad but for my purposes they are quite adequate.
The idea was to create a towed or vehicle mounted 20mm infantry support weapon that was similar in function and purpose to the Wiesel Airborne Weapons Carrier or the Kraka (also known as the Lkw 0,75 t gl Typ 640 Kraftkarren) both of which were armed with the Mk 20 (Rheinmetall Rh202) 20mm cannon.
My goal or objective is to bash the two Tamiya kits and come up with a towed 20mm cannon that will use the mount and carriage of the 3.7cm PaK 36 and the 2cm FlaK 38. My prototype attempts have so far succeeded in modifying the PaK 36 mount to remove the 37mm cannon parts and modifying a 20mm cannon to fit this mount. The carriage has been constructed without the wheels as they are not necessary at this point and the mount with cannon has been test fitted to determine if there are any movement issues with traverse and elevation.
The PaK 36 splinter shield has been modified by cutting it down in height and removing the rivet details. The Tamiya PaK kit also includes a vehicle mount for the PaK 36 to mount it on the SdKfz 251 series which I find appealing as this could be used to mount my creation on an M113 or HMMWV when I get a little further along in the project.
Using the FlaK 38 2cm cannon with the magazine feed system was deemed practical as this would keep the rates of fire down and prevent overheating the weapon. Anyway, that is my story and I am sticking to it :^)
Jeffry Fontaine:
I had put this aside for a while to work on other projects and decided last night that I should take another look at the project and see if I could continue on with it. While sorting through the tray that held the work in progress and trying to multi-task with both hands doing two different things I managed to cock things up real good by spilling the majority of a liquid cement bottle into the tray. Aside from the stench, it managed to coat one of the sprues and a few of the parts with Testor's Liquid Cement. After pulling the parts out of the tray as fast as I could and getting the tray evacuated to somewhere out of the house I set it all aside to dry and will see what parts can be salvaged later on today or this evening. I was tired at the time and should have known better but I was stubborn and I have suffered for it. It is depressing to see all of that work and effort has come to nothing.
Brian da Basher:
Ouch! Mr Fontaine, that's some serious pain I can truly relate too.
Take heart that if the parts are even marginally salvageable, you can build again. Maybe there'll be a silver lining in all this (battle damage?) that takes your project in a new direction!
Feel free to share an inventory of the damage. It may help and at least it would be cathartic.
Good luck!
Brian da Basher
Doom!:
Ouch indeed! :icon_surprised:
Jeffry Fontaine:
The damned glue smell was still reeking from the black polypropylene plastic tray after being left outside all night. I need to check, but I think I still have a spare PaK and FlAK kit to work with that had been earmarked for the project as the models to build after I had messed up the first set but now I may need to go forth and seek out another spare set so that I can be prepared for the next catastrophe :)
I suppose the second time around on this can see faster progress since I had been tackling this from a hit/miss approach in trying things out to see if they would work or not. The one thing I am grateful for is that I did not cock up one of the better detailed 20mm cannons that I had been saving for the final build. My goal was to create a towed version and a vehicle mounted version perched on the roof of the HMMWV weapons carrier.
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