Thompson SMG's - 1/35?

Thanks for finging the article. Reading the article, it says that the kit was rare when it was available and impossible to find now. Dragon doesn't mention it at all on their online catalogue.

thanks again carnivalfun

Mike T.

I found the kit and a review for it, but I havent looked for a website that actually sells it heres the url- http://www.usarmymodels.com/MANUFACTURERS/DML/dml3815.html

Carnivalfun - if you can give me more information on which Dragon kit. I would guess it had to be an early war British set (vehicle or figure set). I have already looked at their online catalogue and didn't see it. Any help would be appreciated.

Thinking about this more, I'll probably will stick wiith the available M1A1's as I would probably ruin several before getting one that would be accurate enough.

Also, the gun that you want also has different type of barrel and compensator at the muzzle.

As you can see, barrel (towards to the breech) has ribs to discipate the heat.  It also has the Lyman rear sight as well. 

telsono wrote:

I was hoping that I didn't have to do a retro-fit of an M1A1.

Which winds up a kettle of worms.  Some of the M-1 Tommies would accept the vertical fore grip, but must were issued with the straight grip to conserve wood.

Note, too, the M-1A1 only takes the 30 round "stick" magazine, too. 

So, while whittling off that fore-end, off goes the mag, too, to make a well big enough for drums . . .  Oh, and the vertical foregrip ties into the front of the drum carrier on the reciever, so it "shows" a lot of light under the barrel (gee, let's carve up this tiny bit of plastic, and remove most of the attchement points . . . )

That 54mm Untouchables Tommy is nice, though.  It's a very nice rendition of the M-1928 Tommy.  Barrel fins, big fat drum mag, the works.  Tommy trivia:  the mags were named for their capacity.  So the box mag is an "XX", the drums were "L" and "C" (and that 100 round drum is a bear to fill up with two boxes of ammo, too).

I was hoping that I didn't have to do a retro-fit of an M1A1. The removal of the existing handle under the barrel would have to be done carefully. Thanks anyway guys!

I do think there was a Winston Churchill figure carrying one, but I don't remember what scale that was.

telsono wrote:

I have been looking for 1/35th scale Thompson submachineguns that have the forward pistol grip and the drum magazine (M1928). Does anyone know of any comapny that makes them? All I can find is the later M1A1 version.

I don't think those were ever done in 1/35. This 54mm set

from El Viejo Dragon (not to be confused with DML/Dragon) has one in "Malone's" hand. It's available from The Red Lancer.