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Oddling addition: Loyd Carrier with mounted 25 pdr gun.

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:05 pm
by hansolo
Hi guys,

Here's another addition to my 'oddling collection'! :banana:

The inspiration was this picture:
(The source: http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index. ... ic=3347.15)

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This is all the text referring to it:
"What else is there? Well, my favorite option for a tracked, self-propelled anti-tank gun using a good chassis and WWII technology would be a Loyd Carrier with a 6-pdr. Here's a 25-pdr that they actually tried, so it's well within the capabilities of WWII designers."

These are all the references I could find. So I didn't have a lot to go on.
For combining the gun to the carrier I had to improvise.

And here are the results up to the point of painting:

This is the Bronco kit of the carrier.
This is not a 'beginners' kit!! It's a kit for modelers with steady hands and nerves of steel!
So many parts! :crazy: And lots of them so tiny, you'd think they belong to a 1/76 scale kit! :shock:
But I survived. :th:

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This is the Tamiya kit for the gun:

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The gun was done pretty quickly; considering I needed only a few parts of the whole kit. :D

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The engine. :wtf:

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The beginning of the lower hull. (This alone took me hours and hours....)

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Putting in the engine:

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Mounting the gun:

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I had to leave out some chairs to make room for the gun mount.

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The model finished:

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I don't think this vehicle ever saw action.
But I put in a soldier, awaiting orders.
Just in case... :thumb1:

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That's it for now folks.
Next up: Painting.

cheers

Re: Oddling addition: Loyd Carrier with mounted 25 pdr gun.

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:25 pm
by MikeyKb
Looks awesome! Did all that PE come with the kit, or did you scratch it out of spares?
I wouldn't want to be standing on the other end of this thing! :P

:cheers2:
:thumb2:

Re: Oddling addition: Loyd Carrier with mounted 25 pdr gun.

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:42 pm
by peppie
Great idea this. I love altering kits like this. :th: We need more of this on this forum.

Stunning looking Bronco kit btw. How was the fit?

Re: Oddling addition: Loyd Carrier with mounted 25 pdr gun.

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 7:00 pm
by chief5437
Brilliant idea! Good skills mate!

Re: Oddling addition: Loyd Carrier with mounted 25 pdr gun.

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:11 pm
by hansolo
MikeyKb wrote:Looks awesome! Did all that PE come with the kit, or did you scratch it out of spares?
I wouldn't want to be standing on the other end of this thing! :P

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Thanks Mikey!
Yeah, all the PE came with the kit.
And there was even more. But I didn't need to use it, 'cause it wasn't in the picture. :th:

cheers

Re: Oddling addition: Loyd Carrier with mounted 25 pdr gun.

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:13 pm
by hansolo
peppie wrote:Great idea this. I love altering kits like this. :th: We need more of this on this forum.

Stunning looking Bronco kit btw. How was the fit?
Thanks!
The fit was good, but there were a truckload of flimsy little parts.
And it was hard to glue them together straight. :crazy:
But if you manage that, there is a lot of detail!

cheers

Re: Oddling addition: Loyd Carrier with mounted 25 pdr gun.

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:14 pm
by hansolo
chief5437 wrote:Brilliant idea! Good skills mate!
Thanks Chief! :bow::

cheers

Re: Oddling addition: Loyd Carrier with mounted 25 pdr gun.

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:55 pm
by PaulAyrey
Ha ha that's crazy, but great work!

Re: Oddling addition: Loyd Carrier with mounted 25 pdr gun.

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:49 am
by Coen
That's wicked work Han.
I love a good kit bash.

Final reveals!!

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 12:25 am
by hansolo
Hi guys,

Here's the finished model!:

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That's all folks!

The Kits to combine for the next oddling are already ordered!......

cheers

Re: Oddling addition: Loyd Carrier with mounted 25 pdr gun.

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 10:57 am
by Coen
Oh wow!!
It's always a great pleasure to see your work Han, but this one is really special bud.
It's always the little things. I love this one.
That's excellent work on all that wood too. Nicely done.

Re: Oddling addition: Loyd Carrier with mounted 25 pdr gun.

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:01 am
by hansolo
Coen wrote:Oh wow!!
It's always a great pleasure to see your work Han, but this one is really special bud.
It's always the little things. I love this one.
That's excellent work on all that wood too. Nicely done.
Thanks Coen!
Appreciate your fine comments

cheers