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Heavy Artillery
Posted by saransk on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:54 PM

Are there any plans available for heavy artillery.  Since very little is in kit form, I wanted to build some coast or rail artillery pieces.  Pictures are easy, but scale drawings are scarce.

Thanks

Mike

 

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    December 2006
  • From: Scottsdale AZ
Posted by spaltro3 on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:49 PM

Mike, I know Schiffer books published a couple of titles on German and Soviet armored trains. But I wouldn't say they had "complete" 3 view drawings. The Russian magazine Modelist Konstructor had great plans but they were in Russian.

I share your pain. There's been very little published with scale illustrations. The whole 1/35 market seems to have done very little as far as artillery. There are no US 3" guns or 90mm AA. No Russian 37mm or 85mm AA. Perhaps with the cheaper 3D prototype machines available now, someone will tackle artillery pieces at a reasonable price.

There's a guy under "davesdrydock"  selling nautical themed plans on Ebay, but I managed to get some detailed AA mountings from him. His store is called Plans N Things.

Try Google; I found a book on early QF British arty on mhobbystore dot com that includes scale plans.

 

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    October 2008
Posted by Sky Cop on Thursday, October 9, 2008 11:56 PM

You might want to try contacting the Ordnance Museum at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

http://www.ordmusfound.org/leopold.html

They "might" have something or at least be able to help.

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Posted by Sky Cop on Friday, October 10, 2008 12:12 AM
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