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I've run out of models to build that I am intimately familiar with. Need a new 3/4 ton but I hear the available model is a nightmare. So I am thinking of doing the AFV club M1 in hopes that it does not look too much like the Long Tom. Anyway I am considering doing my first howitzer in the towed position. Does anyone know what the prime mover of this hog was and if it is available in the 1/35 scale?
Just smiling here looking at the pic wondering how amenable these were for hip shoots.
A number Army Viet Nam scans from hundreds yet to be done:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/southwestdreams/albums/72157621855914355
Have had the great fortune to be on every side of the howitzers.
M4 High Speed Tractor was the prime mover for the M1 155mm and 8” guns. Hobbyboss makes that vehicle in two versions in 1/35, the 155mm/8” gun type, and the 90mm AA gun type.
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U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
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Thanks Stikpusher. Found it at the same place I had the howitzer parked in the cart. While I was looking around for pics I ran into some really nice builds of it for sale on Ebay. Far beyond my skills or perhaps my patience is the better term.
That’s good news. I have the 90mm AA Gun version of the M4 HST and plan to build it in the markings of my father’s ADA unit in Germany one day. And I keep hoping that somebody will come out with the M3 90mm gun that he crewed on as well for the complete set. Currently there is only a 1/35 resin kit of the WWII era M1 90mm gun available. Kinda strange that Hobbyboss came out with the AAA tractor when no gun kit is available. The FA guns in 155mm/8” were out years before by AFV Club.
stikpusherKinda strange that Hobbyboss came out with the AAA tractor when no gun kit is available.
The workings of the kit manufacturers appear to be beyond the ken of we mere mortals.
Sigh.
Now, I remember the Life-Like 1/40 AA gun, but cannot now remember if it was the 90mm or the 120mm one, it's been so long ago. And, I have a memory that LL also had a HST, but not the rights one, alos in 1/40 (but, that could be bad memory).
The Life Like kit was the 120mm AA gun. Their ‘Long Tom’ 155mm gun kit came with the M4 tractor also.
MJames70 The Life Like kit was the 120mm AA gun. Their ‘Long Tom’ 155mm gun kit came with the M4 tractor also.
I built the Life Like 155 Long Tom and M4 HST. Never saw the 120mm gun. But I do remember the 1/32 Renwall 75mm “Skysweeper” AA gun kit.
stikpusher But I do remember the 1/32 Renwall 75mm “Skysweeper” AA gun kit.
Oh my, and such a frustrating thing, back before we routinely had photoetch in kist for things like the paired rotary loaders.
I remember getting one as an xmas gift, but not finishing it as various relatives starting comparing the kit to the dual 3"/50cal Mk 22 they were familiar with (which had similar rotary loaders using all VX fusing). Not sure that kit actually ever made it home with me. Sigh.
Don't forget the M23 ammunition trailer. My father defended the State of Michigan throughout the Korean War as crew of a M40 GMC, M4 HST and M23s.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
GMorrison Don't forget the M23 ammunition trailer. My father defended the State of Michigan throughout the Korean War as crew of a M40 GMC, M4 HST and M23s.
Somebody had to deter Moose and Squirrel and keep their hordes in the Great White North...
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