M3 with 3 inch Gun
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:55 pm
Hi guys,
Meanwhile....
I'm working on a series of vehicles that did not come of the standard production line.
But were put together afterwards. Often in the field. Sometimes because there was a need
for upgrading a vehicle's firepower. Or making heavy artillery mobile.
Sometimes captured guns were put to good use by mounting them on the vehicles of the captures.
Sometimes it was the other way around.
What I like about these vehicles (the kits) is that they seldom come in a box.
This means I have to put the parts together myself.
The result is a unique kit that very few modelers have/build.
And they were unique in the war and often non have survived till the present.
They were the odd results of creative experiments and ingenuity of the mechanics and engineers.
The first one in this series of mine is the Stuart Pak that I built a few weeks ago.
http://intscalemodeller.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=8905
Here's the next one in line:
The M3 with 3 inch Gun.
After I saw a few pictures of this halftrack with a big gun mounted on top of it,
I thought it was an US 3 inch Gun. I bought the kit and afterwards noticed that
the gun in most pictures is a modernized French gun!
Oh, well. I stuck it on there anyway.
As it turned out, lot's of different guns have been put on M3 Halftracks.
So why not a 3 inch gun? Looks very cool!
This in spite of the fact that I am trying to make this series authentic.
I promise to do my homework better on the next build.
(Cause I already built it.
, and have photographs to prove it's authenticity. )
I Stuck the gun on an old kit of mine, that I bought half my life ago.
Spiced this puppy up!
And finally, here are the pictures:
This is the box of my old kit:
This is the old kit. I removed the machine gun mount to make room for the gun.
I put the windshield down to make room for the barrel
This is the box of the gun, from AFV Club.
So I started building the gun. This is not a beginners kit! Many many parts! Some smaller than you would expect in a 1/76 scale kit! It took me 4 hours to complete! And I didn't even have to build the main part of the under carriage!
I chopped the ends of to make it fit on the halftrack. (next picture..)
Metal barrel!
Conversion complete:
Next up: Painting!
Thats all for now folks.
cheers
Meanwhile....
I'm working on a series of vehicles that did not come of the standard production line.
But were put together afterwards. Often in the field. Sometimes because there was a need
for upgrading a vehicle's firepower. Or making heavy artillery mobile.
Sometimes captured guns were put to good use by mounting them on the vehicles of the captures.
Sometimes it was the other way around.
What I like about these vehicles (the kits) is that they seldom come in a box.
This means I have to put the parts together myself.
The result is a unique kit that very few modelers have/build.
And they were unique in the war and often non have survived till the present.
They were the odd results of creative experiments and ingenuity of the mechanics and engineers.
The first one in this series of mine is the Stuart Pak that I built a few weeks ago.
http://intscalemodeller.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=8905
Here's the next one in line:
The M3 with 3 inch Gun.
After I saw a few pictures of this halftrack with a big gun mounted on top of it,
I thought it was an US 3 inch Gun. I bought the kit and afterwards noticed that
the gun in most pictures is a modernized French gun!
Oh, well. I stuck it on there anyway.
As it turned out, lot's of different guns have been put on M3 Halftracks.
So why not a 3 inch gun? Looks very cool!
This in spite of the fact that I am trying to make this series authentic.
I promise to do my homework better on the next build.
(Cause I already built it.
, and have photographs to prove it's authenticity. )I Stuck the gun on an old kit of mine, that I bought half my life ago.
Spiced this puppy up!
And finally, here are the pictures:
This is the box of my old kit:
This is the old kit. I removed the machine gun mount to make room for the gun.
I put the windshield down to make room for the barrel
This is the box of the gun, from AFV Club.
So I started building the gun. This is not a beginners kit! Many many parts! Some smaller than you would expect in a 1/76 scale kit! It took me 4 hours to complete! And I didn't even have to build the main part of the under carriage!
I chopped the ends of to make it fit on the halftrack. (next picture..)
Metal barrel!
Conversion complete:
Next up: Painting!
Thats all for now folks.
cheers
.
