GMorrison

I came across this while working on something else. I did not know about this fit.

 

At first i thought that might be a troop ship and the gun belonged to the troops being transported. Then i spotted the aircraft. Clearly some one thought the ship needed some extra punch.

Man City and Tonka, thank you for looking in and your kind words. Yes, I would like to get at least one, or perhaps two more builds in for him this year, but I have a lot of other things ahead as well. I'm sure I can at least start one...

Great Job Stik! Nice level of weathering. And very nice to honor your father's service!

Neither did I... very interesting, an Army gun mount in a Navy ship... thanks for showing that...

I came across this while working on something else. I did not know about this fit.

stikpusher

 

 

ygmodeler4

Looks great Carlos, and a nice tribute

 

 

 

 

Thank you my friend. My dad and I butted heads over many things. But our service was not one of them.

 

I'm looking forward to you posing it next to something for scale. I have the feeling it's pretty tiny.

That's a neat little model, unusual subject.

SprueOne

Very nice finish! And you have 7 more months to get 1 more model done for 2017

 

LOL! Yes I do! And thank you for the kind words. I am near the finish line on another project that I pulled off the sidelines... maybe a couple more weeks to go on that one...

Very nice finish! And you have 7 more months to get 1 more model done for 2017

Thank you Toshi. For looking in here, and for commenting.

Stikpusher, you did a great job on this build.  I'm most impressed!

Toshi

ygmodeler4

Looks great Carlos, and a nice tribute

 

Thank you my friend. My dad and I butted heads over many things. But our service was not one of them.

Thank you Griffin. These photos did come out okay. But the flash, just changes things up a bit, while it highlights the effects you mention. I gotta say that though, the new iPhone has the best camera and software for close up photos that I have used yet. Way beyond my feeble skills to fully exploit. 

Looks great. Congrats on finishing your first of the year. It's a nice feeling. Lately I have been fooling around with figuring out how to take better photos of my models. I am not good at it. One thing I found was less light and more exposure time seems to make the model pop more. Even on my phone I can fool around with the camera settings. The colors, fading, weathering look much better. Just my two cents.

Bish, Templar, and Gamera, thank you for looking and commenting. I'm sure that my dad would like it. I think the flash photos from last night washed out the finish a bit. I'm gonna try to get some natural light photos on here later today.

Yeah, that's some nice work! 

Your dad would love it. Nice work Stik.

Really nicely done stik. Love the dusty finish, looks used but certainly not over done.

Great looking build.

And now this is all done! My first completed build of the year! Woohoo!

I'm glad you like it. 300 ft of drop at 1500 yards sounds excessive. I know the M2 has a longer heavier barrel than a Barret, and I don't recall that big of a drop at extreme ranges when I fired it. 

A nice little build.  

Someone above mentioned French use in Indo China.  The US Vietnam-era Gun Truck was pretty much the same thing: massive firepower in the event of ambush - 2,000rpm or so.

In typical fashion German prisoners - who thought nothing of using single and quad 20mm FlaK in the ground role - whinged about US use of the quad 50 in the ground role. For some reason they never cottoned-on to using their own 13 and 15mm MG in the ground role.

I caught a clip on a WW2 history TV programme of the twin-gun version of this mount emplaced on a British coastal defence in a concrete pit.  Presumably stripped from a half-track, as we didn't use the AA versions supplied but converted them to other things.

Someone above also mentioned trajectory.  Depends on a number of factors, but in a previous job I was tendering for some 0.50 anti-materiel rifles and Barrett stated the drop with standard ball to be 300 feet at 1,500 yards for a similar barrel length.  That's like lobbing it 100 yards in the air!  We wanted decent accuracy out to 2,000m but struggled to get it and find scopes that would compensate past 1,800m.  But with auto fire and tracer you can "walk" your fire.

US Navy had their own take on this idea.  The ELCO Thunderbolt, used on some PT Boats. Started out as 6 x 0.50s but ended up as 4 x 20mm, in a flat row.

Perhaps surprisingly, we Brits didn't make any ground/land use of our naval quad-50 Vickers mount.  Put that on the back of a truck instead of twin Bren/Vickers K or a single 20mm.

    ... and we are in the home stretch now heading in to the finish line...  

first up, if I was to fault any part of the kit instructions, which Dragon is notorious for, it would be right here, where the gun and ammo can assembly is shown....

but there are couple things they do not mention... first, the little nubs that are on the end are also attached to the mounting stub for the ammo cans, but look like a natural cut off point for the excess plastic nubs (whatever those things are called). I cut off two and filed the support ends flat before I realized the fit into the slots on the ammo can.  

the other thing that needs caution is the little part between the guns and the ammo cans that have the rounds molded onto them. it seems only natural to push them in as far as they will go to match the widened end right up against the ammo can.

But that is a no no. Do that and you will have a gap between that part and the guns as I found out.

That part is best painted and left loose until you mount the guns and cans on their support arms. Live and learn... so I ended up scratching up some extensions to the ammo feed trays

trimmed to fit

last night I painted up the gunner's sight, and today I glued that in place

and then I painted the tail lights and reflectors

and as this is typed, the ammo cans are drying after I glued them in place a little while ago...
the build is now complete! 

Thank you sir. It's really quite a simple technique for painting the .50s. And the look is just how I remember them.

That's looking really good. I really like the technique you used to paint the M2's. Sweet 

Lots of progress in the past couple of days on my Quad .50. Yesterday I airbrushed on a top coat of Humbrol Satin as I wanted the OD to have a slight sheen, but I was not happy with the result. It ended up a bit too shiny/reflective. 

So today I airbrushed on a coat of Humbrol Flat

Much better now...

Then I did more some painting- the tires and a metallic background for the reflectors and tail lights

And then I glued the .50s onto the turret

Now all I have left is to add the ammo cans and paint the reflectors & tail lights...

stikpusher

 

Gamera

Oh, gonna look cool with the M34!

Looking forward to seeing how you pull it off.

 

 

 

 

It'll be a M35, as the wheel cut out in the bed of the M34 interferes with bulk cargo loads like this. 

But if you go to the manual that Pawel linked early in this thread, there is the load plan in there. Pretty much just what the photo I posted above shows. I'll be using the AFV Club M35 in my stash for the truck. 

 

Whoops yeah you said M35- I misread your post...

Gamera

Oh, gonna look cool with the M34!

Looking forward to seeing how you pull it off.

 

It'll be a M35, as the wheel cut out in the bed of the M34 interferes with bulk cargo loads like this. 

But if you go to the manual that Pawel linked early in this thread, there is the load plan in there. Pretty much just what the photo I posted above shows. I'll be using the AFV Club M35 in my stash for the truck. 

Oh, gonna look cool with the M34!

Looking forward to seeing how you pull it off.