Oddling addition: Loyd Carrier with mounted 25 pdr gun.
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:05 pm
Hi guys,
Here's another addition to my 'oddling collection'!
The inspiration was this picture:
(The source: http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index. ... ic=3347.15)

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!
And lots of them so tiny, you'd think they belong to a 1/76 scale kit!
But I survived.

This is the Tamiya kit for the gun:

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

The engine.


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


Putting in the engine:

Mounting the gun:


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

The model finished:




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

That's it for now folks.
Next up: Painting.
cheers
Here's another addition to my 'oddling collection'!
The inspiration was this picture:
(The source: http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index. ... ic=3347.15)

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!
But I survived.

This is the Tamiya kit for the gun:

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

The engine.


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


Putting in the engine:

Mounting the gun:


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

The model finished:




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

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












