Armoured train Valkyrie

[tigercat]

I'm going to try something different and go for an Armoured Train . Captured as the Allies roll through Europe and redeployed .

[Old Wombat]

Make it more fun: Make it a Soviet armoured train captured & used by the Germans, then captured & used by the Allies!

[kerick]

That would be wild! German and Soviet weapons on the same train.

[tigercat]

medium.com/war-is-boring/a-remarkable-armored-train-fought-its-way-across-eurasia-db3e3180b50c

I'll see what's in the spares box   Given the Germans magpie tendencies it could be very eclectic .

[loupgarou]

That would be wild! German and Soviet weapons on the same train.

Not so wild, I'd say even usual.
German armoured trains included everything  that moved, from WW1 austrian wagons, to polish and obviously a lot of russian units, adapting and modifying them endlessly. "Standard" BP 42 and 44 tpes are a late development and rarely really complete as designed.

[PR19_Kit]

Which track gauge would it be though?

The Russian gauge is 5 ft (1520 mm for Metricheads) and the German gauge is 4' 8.5" (1435 mm...) as is most of the rest of Europe.

[tigercat]

It'll be captured in Europe so European gauge although practically it'll be 00

[loupgarou]

Which track gauge would it be though?

The Russian gauge is 5 ft (1520 mm for Metricheads) and the German gauge is 4' 8.5" (1435 mm...) as is most of the rest of Europe.

Germans were very adept both at re-gauging tracks, and pressing together wagon wheelsets. They had mobile workshops for that.

[Captain Canada]

Great story in that link. Neat stuff to be sure, and defo somat to explore further. I would opine that going through the motions, you might as well do it in one of the popular model railroad scales. Be pretty cool to see one rolling about in HO scale !

[tigercat]

Am starting to look for spares and repairs wagons  for conversion

[jcf]

Paul Malmassari's Armoured Trains tome shows that modification of armament
was pretty standard when trains changed hands.

[tigercat]

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/armored-train-zheleznyakov.html

[loupgarou]

Great story in that link. Neat stuff to be sure, and defo somat to explore further. I would opine that going through the motions, you might as well do it in one of the popular model railroad scales. Be pretty cool to see one rolling about in HO scale !

If you go for WW2, lot of materials already available, from Liliput's Pazerdraisinen to russian trains from obscure ukrainian brands like REModel, to resin kits (Wespe, Artmaster, old Artitec etc)

[tigercat]

First up armoured diesel . The donor kit was prepainted when bought as a spares lot so needs some olive drab 

[PR19_Kit]

I know a Bullied Light Pacific when I see one.