Armor Based Gb Anyone?

[jcf]

Recently, I've been thinking of modifying one of these:




by placing some sort of gun (say something like a 37mm or 47mm gun) between the two crew in a fixed mount to great a small (very small considering this was only around 2m in length!) tank destroyer.

Regards,

Greg

The Poles built a series of mini tank destroyers.

http://derela.republika.pl/tkd.htm



Jon

[frank2056]

Recently, I've been thinking of modifying one of these
...
by placing some sort of gun (say something like a 37mm or 47mm gun) between the two crew in a fixed mount to great a small (very small considering this was only around 2m in length!) tank destroyer.

Greg,
Here's an example with a 3.7cm gun. Mirage has kitted several variants of the Renault UE, including this german version with a couple of machine guns. There's also a version with rockets!

Frank  

[Mossie]

Looking forward to this Greg, I always thought the Renault UE would be the perfect candidate for a bit of scalorama.  Slap a 1/72 turret on it & you've got a French heavy tank.

[GTX]

Thanks Jon and Frank.  In my mind though I was thinking something more low profile with the gun mounted almost S-tank style.  


France - their late '30s aircraft may have been ugly, but I'll try to make their tanks look nice !

Regards,

Greg

[GTX]

Speaking of armour, has anyone seen this ugly creation - the Rheinmetall Gefas:






Who needs weapons - just scare the enemy off with your looks!!!

Regards,

Greg

[frank2056]

Thanks Jon and Frank.  In my mind though I was thinking something more low profile with the gun mounted almost S-tank style.

Greg, the Mirage Renault UE kits are "old school" kits, with separate top, bottom and sides. That's not too bad, though... until you see the sprue full of tiny, delicate individual track links, with giant attachment points. That's where I put the kit back in its box (I have three of these).

The Tamiya kit is far more expensive, but it looks much easier to build... and probably gets built more often than the Mirage kits!

Frank

[Maverick]

(One Night at WAAF (Whif Armour Anonymous))  

Hi, my name's John & I'm an armour whiff modeller although I haven't whiffed armour in a few years

But seriously, I'd love to join the Build, I've got quite a few projects in the brainpan and a couple on the go as we speak that could easily slot into a GB.

[fabe]

Got a braille scale Hummel this Christmas and would just love to join....

[nev]

I've got a 1/76 Black Prince and Tortoise that are begging to join this GB.

[SinUnNombre]

If we want the Armor GB next on the docket, as I do, we all need to place our votes in anthonyp's pol stickyied at the top of this forum.

Jon

[anthonyp]

I'm too lazy to look through the thread.  Is there a Commandant for this GB? 

[GTX]

Is there a Commandant for this GB?

I might - what exactly is involved?

Regards,

Greg

[nev]

You have to drum up support, chivvy the entrants, encourage the slow, sticky and unsticky the relevant threads and sort out a winner - who will probly receive a prize from your stash.

[anthonyp]

OK, this one's the winner of the recompete!  If someone doesn't step up by Friday, this one's going on the back burner and the Styrene Junkyard GB becomes January's!

[General Zod]

What is the proposed time for this GB? I won't be able to start anything until early March Got some non what if stuff to get done first