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Have Gun, Will Travel III
Posted by Thunderbolt379 on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:21 PM

Welcome to the third round of the self-propelled artillery group build,

"Have Gun Will Travel"

Rules as before, any era or nationality, any scale or brand, OOB or AM, which addresses the theme of self-propelled artillery, this being specifically tube and rocket artillery -- so long as it drives itself it's in.

Staring August 1st 2013, running one year to a close on July 31st 2014.

There have been a number of expressions of interest in resuming this theme, so please drop by and let me know what you'll be working on. I'll be finishing my Trumpeter AS-90 with etch.

There'll be a Roll Call list, badges and an Honour Wall for finished projects, as always.

Looking forward to registrations!

Cheers, Mike/TB379

 

 

Roll Call

Thunderbolt379 (host): Trumpeter 1:35 AS-90 (w/ Eduard etch) DONE

WayneC: HobbyBoss 1/35 DANA 8x8 and Trumpeter 1:35 BM-21 122mm MLR AND Zvezda 1/72 SS-25 TOPOL

Taxtp: Bandai 1:48 Wespe (carried over from HGWT II) DONE

SchattenSpartan: Dragon 1:35 Hummel

Buffirn: Renwal 1:32(?) Atomic Cannon and Trumpeter 1:35 Chinese Type 83 SPA

Deattilio: Dragon 1:72 LVTA-4  (USMC w/ 75mm howitzer) DONE

Gunner Chris: Revell 1:76 M7 Priest (crossover from the D-Day GB)

Tyrithe: Dragon 1:35 Pz. Sfl. IVb (w/ 10.5 cm leFH 18/1.)

Jibber:  Dragon 1:35 Flakpanzer IV "Ostwind" (cross over from the Duck Hunter GB) DONE

Pvt Mutt: AFV Club 1:35 M-40 (conversion to -43)

Gamera: AFV Club 1:35 M40

Garzonh: SFV Club 1:35 M109A2 Howitzer DONE

Castelnuova: Eastern Express 1:35 B-4 Howitzer and Ark 1:35 PAK 43/3 Waffentrager

 

 

Badges

  

Many thanks to WayneC for putting together these fab badges!

 

 

Honour Wall

Garzonh    21 Oct. 2013

 

Jibber  23 Oct. 2013

  

 

 

Taxtp    11 Nov. 13

 

 

Deattilio    6 Jan. 2014

 

 

Thunderbolt379    7 Aug 2014

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Posted by waynec on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:36 PM

hey mike

will probably do the 1/35 DANA 8x8. the PLA DF-21 ICBM is on a semi trailer but it does have an eractor to the vertical to launch so that should count.

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Posted by Thunderbolt379 on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:55 PM

Thanks, WayneC -- Roll Call is go! M

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Posted by pyrman64 on Thursday, August 1, 2013 7:45 AM

Does this include self propelled AAA?

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Posted by Thunderbolt379 on Thursday, August 1, 2013 8:01 AM

Hi pyrman64 -- it would have to be guns only, but I guess I could stretch the definition to include AAA. What did you have in mind?

M/TB379

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Posted by Gamera on Thursday, August 1, 2013 9:06 AM

Mike: I didn't see anything in the rules here or on part II about partly completed models. I've an AFV Club M40 SPG I started for Stikpusher's Korean War GB and didn't quite finish. She's mostly built but I haven't added some small parts or painted anything but the interior yet. Plus I want to modify some infantrymen into a crew and do a small diorama. Not sure when I'll be able to re-start on her though.

Please let me know if she's kosher or not!

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Posted by pyrman64 on Thursday, August 1, 2013 9:41 AM

Thunderbolt379
Hi pyrman64 -- it would have to be guns only, but I guess I could stretch the definition to include AAA. What did you have in mind?

I was thinking of something like the German 8t half-tracks with 2cm Vierling 38 or 3,7cm Flak37, or even a M42 Duster?

Greg H

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Posted by waynec on Thursday, August 1, 2013 9:45 AM

it's the trumpeter DF-21. have a pair of them and found some cool camo patterns.

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Posted by Thunderbolt379 on Thursday, August 1, 2013 6:55 PM

Gamera -- that M40 would be a great addition, by all means go ahead and complete it under the banner of this GB!

Pyrman64 -- these are all great subjects, and I think they qualify, they are most certainly guns and most certainly self-propelled!

Cheers, M/TB379

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Posted by Bish on Friday, August 2, 2013 1:32 AM

In that case Mike, count me in. Put me down for the 1/35th Tamiya Mobelwagen 3.7cm. This will be a cross over from the Duck Hunter GB. I assume cross overs are ok.

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Posted by Thunderbolt379 on Friday, August 2, 2013 1:41 AM

All signed up, Bish!

M/TB379

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Posted by Bish on Friday, August 2, 2013 5:24 AM

Thanks. I hope to get around it at the end of the year.

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Posted by jbell30 on Friday, August 2, 2013 6:00 AM

Count me in.  I will be building the Hobby Boss SU-152

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Posted by Gamera on Friday, August 2, 2013 11:24 AM

Hey thanks Mike, sounds great! Hoping to get some paint slapped on her when I get the Churchill I'm building for Bish's D-Day build out of the paint booth.

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Posted by taxtp on Sunday, August 18, 2013 12:07 AM

Hi Mike,

I'll try to get my Bandai 1/48 Wespe done this time. I didn't quite make it for the last one.

Cheers

Tony

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Posted by Thunderbolt379 on Sunday, August 18, 2013 12:12 AM

Glad to have you aboard, Tony! M/TB379

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Posted by waynec on Sunday, August 18, 2013 9:03 AM

it is the hobbyboss DANA.once i get caught up some on shelf queens will start these.

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Posted by SchattenSpartan on Sunday, August 18, 2013 9:32 AM

Hi there folks!

I'd like to join this one as well, but I can't start work untill January...

I have a Hummel in my stash I wanted to build for some time now, but I never had the opportunity to do so. It's the Dragon kit in 1/35 (late version).

Maybe I'll add a GW Tiger later on, but I still have to get one...

Cheers, Clemens

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Posted by SchattenSpartan on Sunday, August 18, 2013 9:33 AM

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Posted by Thunderbolt379 on Sunday, August 18, 2013 9:40 AM

Thanks Wayne; Clemens, good to have you in this unit!

M/TB379

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Posted by Buffirn on Monday, August 19, 2013 9:05 PM

Mike,

Add me to the fray.  I'll do the Renwal Atomic Cannon and a Trumpeter Chinese Type 83 SPA

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Posted by Thunderbolt379 on Monday, August 19, 2013 9:40 PM

Welcome aboard, Jim! I look forward to seeing these subjects -- Trumpeter had awful problems with the tracks for the vehicles on that common chassis, they were too short and would not stretch, so the company produced workable indie link tracks, #TK-14, 02044. I have them on the shelf for my own Type 83, which I started for a GB many years ago and had to shelve because of the track problem.

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Posted by waynec on Monday, August 19, 2013 10:40 PM

ttype 83 sounds like a candidate for cargo on the PLA TANK TRANSPORTER. roll up the track and put it up front or under the spa and tied down. break off a sprocket and  strap it down on the bed and it will look like a sheared druive sprocket recovery situation. i have both of these.

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Posted by deattilio on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 7:25 PM

I would like to join this GB and bring an oft overlooked piece of self-propelled artillery, the Marine Corps’ WWII amphibious 75mm howitzer armed LVTA-4. 

It may take a little while to get tracking on it as I want to finish my 1/144 C-47 for the nearer dead-lined 1/144 GB.  But, I have pulled it to the front of the line of my AmTrac stash.

 

WIP:
Trying to get my hobby stuff sorted - just moved and still unpacking.

 

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Posted by Thunderbolt379 on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 7:31 PM

Welcome to the GB deattilio! Yes indeed, very unusual piece of SP artillery, I look forward to seeing it!

Mike/TB379

PS: Can you let me know the make and scale, for the Roll above?

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Posted by deattilio on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 9:18 PM

Thunderbolt379
 PS: Can you let me know the make and scale, for the Roll above?

 
This will be the Dragon 1/72 kit..
Tags: 1/72 , LVT

 

WIP:
Trying to get my hobby stuff sorted - just moved and still unpacking.

 

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Posted by gunner_chris on Friday, August 23, 2013 10:00 PM
I can't not participate......pencil me in for the 1/76 Revell M7 Priest, a cross from the d-day GB

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Posted by Thunderbolt379 on Friday, August 23, 2013 10:11 PM

You're in! M/TB379

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Posted by tyrithe on Sunday, September 1, 2013 10:23 PM

I'll speak up as well, switching away from air for a while.

Dragon 1:35 Pz. Sfl. IVb with the 10.5 cm leFH 18/1.

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Posted by Thunderbolt379 on Monday, September 2, 2013 2:47 AM

Glad to have you! That's a very unusual vehicle! M/TB379

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