Gunships - Inspiration.

[zenrat]

ISTR at least one western where a Gatling was hidden in a covered wagon. The  Outlaw Josey Wales maybe?

Yes.  At the beginning of the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjrx0TjJN6M

There was a John Wayne movie called The War Wagon. Some kind of armored stagecoach. The problem with all of these is why not just shoot the horses, mules, oxen, whatever?...

Because, as I learnt watching the clip and paying attention, horses are bulletproof.  Clint guns down no-end of Yankees without a single tethered horse in the background getting hit.  A few fall over when the troops riding them are shot but they get up again.

Alabama Slammer pics have made me think of the contraptions the A-Team came up with while (once again) locked in a shed with a fully equipped workshop.

[scooter]

Alabama Slammer pics have made me think of the contraptions the A-Team came up with while (once again) locked in a shed with a fully equipped workshop.

That was the ingenuity we needed in the Before Times - prior to the level 2 armor kits hitting the depots and Level 1 vehicles coming straight from the factory.  Because...you go to war with the army you have, not the army you want.

And I think those shots of the Slammer might have been taken in late '03, early '04.  My battalion (50th Main Support BN, 42ID(M)) had to turn in all our M-8xx series 5 tons during our predeployment phase, including several trucks with XM-818 by Kaiser Willy's data plates for 900 and FMTV series trucks.

[NARSES2]

HaT industrie make Gatling guns and Gardner guns in 1/72nd :

Hat's range is pretty impressive. I had a few of their sets, the plastic's quite soft, a bit like the old Airfix figures, but none the less impressive.

There was a John Wayne movie called The War Wagon. Some kind of armored stagecoach. The problem with all of these is why not just shoot the horses, mules, oxen, whatever?

Ah well you just give them a full Sassanian or late Byzantine armoured bard 

https://about-history.com/history-of-the-cataphract/

[kitnut617]

I've a plan to do this one day;



I've gathered most of the parts for it to build as you see it, but since then I've had second thoughts about the whole concept (as usually happens  )

So I've got another plan coming together but it involves a lot of work which I don't see getting it done in the GB's time span, so I'll do it some other time.

[Old Wombat]

Why are they shooting up those poor sheep farmers trying to get their flock to the market down river on the boat that's just blown up?

[Mossie]

I think this GB is perfect for the character in the bottom left:
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=283

[Mossie]

Most of Modelcollects Fist of War range qualifies:
http://www.modelcollect.com/producttag/115/fist-of-war

[sandiego89]

I believe the Belvedere was remembered as one of the more elegant gunships 

[tigercat]

http://www.modelcollect.com/atlantikwall-coastal-artillery-site-twin-38cm-1496-inch-turret-anton
http://www.modelcollect.com/austratt-fort-coastal-artillery-site-triple-28cm-turret-caesar-one-v1-missile-include



For those wanting something a bit bigger

Modelcollect also delivers 

[Mossie]

And if you want to go the whole hog...
http://www.modelcollect.com/german-wwii-p1000-ratte-scharnhorst1945

It's well worth a browse through the full range, they're obsessed with big guns if their sci-fi and paper panzer ranges are anything to go by:
http://www.modelcollect.com/germany

[loupgarou]

Zenrat, you should unearth your old avatar, Hello-Kitty-with-Kalashnikov for this GB. 

[Weaver]

I was looking for a good pic of the OV-1 Brid Dog 'Little Puff', that was tested with a side-firing M60 in Vietnam, when I came across this even greater silliness. Yes folks, those are a pair of M3 submachine guns in devastating .45 ACP...

Presumably you'd call this a Greasegunship...





Images from here: https://soldiersystems.net/2016/09/24/this-is-too-good-to-not-share/

[kitnut617]

Here's one I photographed at the Yuma Airshow in 2013. Chatting with the owner he said it's a replica of an aircraft that was set up like this.

[Weaver]

Here's one I photographed at the Yuma Airshow in 2013. Chatting with the owner he said it's a replica of an aircraft that was set up like this.

Yes I've seen that one before, but there was definitely one with a side-firing M60 in the cabin.

EDIT: found it! It was in the Squadron/Signal book, but it wasn't on the web anywhere.

[kerick]

This is what you get when FACs try to be fighter jocks. The pairs of rockets are there to mark the target then get your a$$ out of the way before the big boys show up. Anything else can get you killed.