That's got to be a LOT of plastic! 

Natural follow up to the Bismarck turret, HMS Hood Turret B:

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What's the box thing on the top, pointing up at 45 degrees?

Un-rotated Projectile (UP) launcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrotated_Projectile

Hood specific: http://www.hmshood.org.uk/ship/aaa.htm



Thanks to Greg (GTX_Admin) over on BtS for the above information & links.

Good heavens, I've never heard of that thing before. Sounds like a sort of anti-aircraft naval shotgun! 

Thanks for the research and the link.

Is that in 72nd?  Add it to a 35th Challenger for the British battlefield  answer to the Ratte?

Quote from: The Wooksta! on July 21, 2023, 04:35:23 AMIs that in 72nd?  Add it to a 35th Challenger for the British battlefield  answer to the Ratte?

It's 32cm (12.6") long! That's less than a cm shorter than entirety of the the 1/35 Challenger (32.85cm/12.93")!

Maybe a 1/16 PzKpfw V Panther, 1/16 PzKpfw VI Tiger (I), 1/16 IDF Merkava III, 1/16 M1A1/2 Abrams, 1/16 WWII Soviet T34/85 or 1/16 Russian T-72B?



(Sorry, couldn't find any British AFV's in 1/16 but there are other 1/16 options available - they just all happen to be stupidly expensive.)

Quote from: PR19_Kit on July 21, 2023, 03:43:35 AMGood heavens, I've never heard of that thing before. Sounds like a sort of anti-aircraft naval shotgun! 

Thanks for the research and the link.

AA shotgun is precisely what it is, Kit!  Land based too. There were many batteries of them on the island of Flotta, protecting the Scapa Flow anchorage;  much of their  infrastructure remains there  (or at least it did in 2018) as an example of military archaeology.  The Orkney.com website is full of such  military arechaeological material.      https://www.orkney.com/things/history/wartime


  Is the HMS Hood the first part of  one of those  interminably extended (and expensive) part-works that ends up with a full 1/72  battle cruiser?

Quote from: Rheged on July 21, 2023, 07:01:26 AMAA shotgun is precisely what it is, Kit!  Land based too.

I've seen some newsreel footage of the things being fired and they look pretty impressive although upon reading about them in a couple of books I have on convoys they weren't  particularly so, especially as I don't think they were reloadable ? Might be wrong. Typical British stopgap until we could get enough "proper" light AA weapons in the arsenal.

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Quote from: Rheged on July 21, 2023, 07:01:26 AMAA shotgun is precisely what it is, Kit!  Land based too.

I've seen some newsreel footage of the things being fired and they look pretty impressive although upon reading about them in a couple of books I have on convoys they weren't  particularly so, especially as I don't think they were reloadable ? Might be wrong. Typical British stopgap until we could get enough "proper" light AA weapons in the arsenal.

My late godfather, an RN Chief Yeoman of Signals  saw them in action at Scapa and described them with a Shakespearian  quote "....full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...."  (MacBeth act 5 scene 5)

Quote from: PR19_Kit on July 21, 2023, 03:17:52 AMWhat's the box thing on the top, pointing up at 45 degrees?

My first thought was a RAM launcher. Then the 'no, wait, those didn't exist in WW2' came.

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Quote from: PR19_Kit on July 21, 2023, 03:17:52 AMWhat's the box thing on the top, pointing up at 45 degrees?

My first thought was a RAM launcher. Then the 'no, wait, those didn't exist in WW2' came.

That would be on the late/post-Cold War HMS Hood.

Another in the naval weapons series, 1/35 PLAN H/PJ11-11-30. Might look good on some kind of vehicle.
https://armorama.com/news/takom-h-pj11-11-30-ciws

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The only problem with putting something like that on a tank chassis or similar is that it would run out of ammunition in 30 seconds or so ?

oh, it's less than that. Closer to 10 than 30 seconds, and that may even apply to shipboard installations. At least one CIWS has no ammo feed from outside. The system has to be able to slew at high rates, and feeding ammo from the stationary part of the gun to the swiveling part is difficult, so the turret contains the ammo supply.