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Good idea Jakko, but the 12 ton couldn't get it into the air.........So Ian,
How about driver's training at the Peenemunde rocket testing site on the north sea. A 12-ton towing a V2 on a Meillerwagen through an obstacle course,
Come on, you know towing a cannon is boring.......Ok, so most of them did tow artillery, but a little food for thought..........
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LOL
Admittedly not something you see that often but, alas I fear t'is to late the canon's are bought and paid for, as I quite like artillery.
Today I will attempt to part the drive wheels and sort out the problem.
Anything else I should know about. BEFOR I stick it together...Comment
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Morn Ian,
Ok, I can understand that you already have something in the stash......
Not really. If you follow Terry's tip on offsetting the rollers, you'll be fine. With the tracks built, you should end up with something like this (hope you don't mind the pic),
The rest of the build should be pretty straight forward. If I may ask, what cannon will she be towing?
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That was my first thought of what you meant, but then I felt this would have been too obvious so I suggested the glider as a guessat what you had in mind … Guess I overthought it
I don’t think it’s an obstacle course but represents the German railway loading gauge.Comment
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Do these look about right Allen Dewire
And no worries about the picture of yours quite helpful.
As for what it will tow.. either a pak 43 or a flak 44 both big buggers 128mm.Comment
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Looooking gooood Ian!!! Great weapons of choice to tow too...This is gonna be great!!!.....Life's to short to be a sheep...Comment
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Well done Ian, you're a patient man. Just see now how much better the track fits :thumb2:Comment
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Cracking work so far Ian.Comment
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Hi Ian,
The 12 ton could carry ammo in the rear storage lockers, but not a lot in this caliber. Re-supply probably would have been done by 4.5 ton trucks as they could carry more rounds than a 3 ton Blitz or the like.
The Wehrmacht also had FlaK units in it. The 128 FlaK guns were mostly used to protect factories and important objects/sites and were Luftwaffe controlled. So were the twin 128's that were mounted on FlaK towers in major cities. They weren't dragged all over the battlefield like an 88 was. The few transportable 128's couldn't fire while on their transport bogies and had to be put on the ground. Very few towed PaKs of 128mm were produced as the total weight of them was around 12 tons and towing vehicles weren't in abundance this late in the war......Krupp and Rheinmetall were the makers of them, so almost all of the 128's were mounted in the Jagdtiger......
And here I was thinking you were going to have it towing an arty piece like a 21cm Mörser 18 or the like............
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Blimey!!...
This is VERY INTERESTING STUFF
.... not to mention a nice looking kit,well, despite the problems,and after your determined modifications that is !....
It's making my GB entry,(that I'm basically shoving together ootb ),seem positively bland!!
Good stuff here though Ian
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And on the second day he said let there be wheels...
And behold there where wheels. 'Er ya go, clean those up'
On the third day He shall stick them together.
And on the forth he shall rest... lolComment
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