Landships II

PDA · Legend

New Strelets 1/72 Guns

Rob · Legend

Will pick some up shortly - never thought I'd see these two in plastic. More power to Strelets for doing so, bring on the Schneider!

Kamil · Lieutenant-Colonel

I hope thet they will be available soon in Poland

Rob · Legend

All the Strelets guns are suitable - technically should have a limber, but there's photos showing them not with the limber so not essential. There's a photo of a 6 inch being towed here;

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6inchMkVIIGunTowedByHoltTractorTronesWood1917.jpeg

-- Edited by Rob on Wednesday 14th of November 2012 03:33:40 PM

Kaiser · Lieutenant-Colonel

So, if I want my Holt tractor to pull one of these guns, which should I pick?

I beleive it was Rob who posted a picture of a Holt pulling the 8in gun. But what about the 6in? Would that work too?

Ian P · Major

Here's some work in progress shots - lots of work to be done...

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The kit comes with rubber treads for the wheel rims which are far too thick, so I've used plastic strip instead.

Rob · Legend

Many thanks Ian, that looks superb - plastic strip for wheels looks very effective too

Kaiser · Lieutenant-Colonel

Fantastic! Thank you, Rob! I'm leaning towards using the 8in gun for my Holt. The 6in would look good being pulled by a Fowler steam traction engine, I think.

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Thank you for sharing your pictures, Ian!

How's the plastic to work with? Is it very soft...?

Kamil · Lieutenant-Colonel

Great work!!!!!!!! Many thanks

Eric · Colonel

Nice job, very inspiring.
I will place an order for the 2 references !!!

All the very best,

-- Edited by Eric on Saturday 17th of November 2012 06:31:24 AM

Ian P · Major

Kaiser wrote:
Fantastic! Thank you, Rob! I'm leaning towards using the 8in gun for my Holt. The 6in would look good being pulled by a Fowler steam traction engine, I think.
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Thank you for sharing your pictures, Ian!
How's the plastic to work with? Is it very soft...?

Hi, it's hard plastic, and easy to work with, but needs a fair bit of cleaning up.

Kaiser · Lieutenant-Colonel

Ian P wrote:
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Hi, it's hard plastic, and easy to work with, but needs a fair bit of cleaning up.

�Thank you for the information!

I'm used to cleaning up shoddily moulded models, so that won't be a problem (even though it'd be nice not having to do so...). Atleast it's in a workable material. smile

baldwin · Hero

With regard to the 8ins Howitzer has any one any scale drawings??

CrashandBern · Field Marshal

baldwin wrote:
With regard to the 8ins Howitzer has any one any scale drawings??

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baldwin · Hero

Nice one !!!!! I have found the one I had bought from B&K,that will show you how long ago that was.I will now have something for the Holt to pull.

Many thanks

Rob · Legend

Barry, is the limber used for the 8 inch howitzer the same as that used for the 18 pounder etc?

baldwin · Hero

Rob

Nothing like. There is no "box" on top of the limber. Best thing is that I taks some pic@s. Will do this weekend.

Rob · Legend

Couldn't resist.... got plenty of other kits to build but bought myself an 8 inch Howitzer too

Kamil · Lieutenant-Colonel

Very nice work, especially� those soldiers.

-- Edited by Kamil on Sunday 25th of November 2012 11:47:58 PM

Ian P · Major

I finished off the 8 inch Howitzer over the weekend and also painted the crew from the 6 inch gun (set A001).

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PDA · Legend

Looks good, Ian. Strelets figures always look better painted.

Eric · Colonel

Nice looking gun.

The figures are better painted, I didn't thought that they could be so nice.

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All the very best,

CrashandBern · Field Marshal

Wow Ian they came out really well, looking at the bare mouldings I honestly didn't think they'd look that good.

RCD · Lieutenant-Colonel

Excellent painting of the figures. Clearly solves the problem about the mixed up figures on Strelet site which I asked for help on another theme..

Rob · Legend

Very nice! The crew look really good too actually, very pleasantly surprised!

mike_m · Major

Indeed does look very nice, worth picking up by the looks of it

Mike

RCD · Lieutenant-Colonel

Ian P wrote:
I finished off the 8 inch Howitzer over the weekend and also painted the crew from the 6 inch gun (set A001).
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You should seriously consider sending these photographs to Stretlets. These would undoubtly be used on their site as each set has its own area including any contribution.
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Rob · Legend

Very impressed with being able to open the breech - how many models have that?!

CharlieC · Legend

These guns - the 6" gun and 8" howitzer were derived from naval guns which used a separate projectile and bagged propellant.�The projectile for these guns was too heavy for a single loader to safely lift up to the gun's breech - 45kg for the 6", 91 kg for the 8". So a simple stretcher-type carrier was used so two men could lift the projectile up to the gun's breech. The projectile was then rammed into breech and the propellant bags were pushed in afterwards.

Edit - beaten to the reply - I think it was a lot safer to carry a 6 inch projectile with two men - really don't want a loader tripping over the trail with a fuzed shell. This isn't an issue for naval guns - the projectiles come up via a hoist and the area behind the breech is clear unlike the WW1 guns.

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Regards,

Charlie

-- Edited by CharlieC on Tuesday 27th of November 2012 01:33:38 AM

Kaiser · Lieutenant-Colonel

The gun looks neat, and the crew looks very good!

Gilgamesh · Sergeant

I'm new to all this, so could someone explain the "stretcher bearer" figures, please?

Kamil · Lieutenant-Colonel

They are carrying ammunition for the howitzer

Gilgamesh · Sergeant

I'm a little surprised that they would need to do it like that for a 6" - I know more about Navy than Army practice, and, at 100-112 lbs, 6" shells were considered manhandleable by a single person. I can see it would be needed for an 8".

PDA · Legend

These pictures are on Toy Soldier HQ:

Rob · Legend

Very impressed with the wheels. Will have to pick up the 6 inch cannon set, with a bit of trimming to remove certain items like water bottles, rifles etc the figures will be perfect.
Looking forward to the Late war 8 inch howitzer too

RCD · Lieutenant-Colonel

On the Strelet forum site tonight�there was the following comment to a question I asked

rest assured this range will be expanded in 2013.
Right now we are deciding on which cannons shall be released in the next year. You know, that with all the variety of various guns used by all sides, that alone is quite a task. Most likely the ones that we will go for in 2013 are German and French guns.

Now that does make you thing what goodies and suprises will appear!� A French 155mm would be the icing on the cake for me

It might be worth�giving your three ha'pence�worth to Strelets.

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PDA · Legend

RCD wrote:
...� A French 155mm would be the icing on the cake for me...�

Which French 155mm?

All photos are from http://www.passioncompassion1418.com/plateforme.html�

RPM have done the GPF

RCD · Lieutenant-Colonel

Ideally I would like to see the GPF because after making a FT wireless tank from RPM a couple of years ago I would not like repeat the experience! However I would be equally happy with the Canon de 155C�modele 1917 Schneider.

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CharlieC · Legend

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I thought there was something odd about the 155mm GPF - it's a 105mm barrel from an AMX-30 tank.

Here's a real 155mm GPF.

Regards,

Charlie

Ironsides · Legend

RCD wrote:
Ideally I would like to see the GPF because after making a FT wireless tank from RPM a couple of years ago I would not like repeat the experience! However I would be equally happy with the Canon de 155C�modele 1917 Schneider.
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�This is one gun I hope H�t will do as I think they will do it better and you'll get more guns for your bucks, seems theres little difference to the 155mm�modele 1915 Schneider other then the method of loading.

Cheers wink