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Customscale: Gebirgsflak 38 on Schwimmwagen
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Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 02:36 AM UTC


Michael Baldeweg from Customscale informed us on his upcoming conversion giving some additional firepower for your 1/35 scale Schwimmwagen.

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Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 02:47 AM UTC
I don't doubt it was a failure. VWs are great but they do have a limit on what they can handle.
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Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 03:08 AM UTC
The metal barrel is a nice touch.

Cheers,

Christophe
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Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 03:59 AM UTC
Wow. I just cannot believe the legs this weird make-up story has!

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Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 04:26 AM UTC
You'd think if they went to the trouble of removing the rear propeller and associated gubbins, they'd have gone the extra step and put outriggers/stabilizers on the sides to give a half decent firing platform
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Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 04:53 AM UTC
Well, well, well, another example of weird German projects created to help keep someone away from the actual fighting.
Many weapons projects were started as a way to try and keep the involved engineers et.c. away from the dangerous parts of the war, the places where people die ....

Outriggers to stabilise the whole thing would have been nice.
Getting outriggers deployed when enemy aircraft suddenly turn up takes too long time ...
Hum ....wouldn't it have been easier to put the gun on a smallish trailer pulled behind the Schwimmwagen ? Nah... getting it into firing mode takes too long time, even if it had some kind of quick release which would drop the gun platform onto the ground.

Need new tactics against fighter-bombers or a heavier (and more stable) vehicle. Preferably a tracked one with a suspension lock-out ...

/ Robin
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Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 06:23 PM UTC
Really! Now I am waiting for an 88 on a sidecar. Cheers! Gabriel.
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Posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 06:21 PM UTC

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Really! Now I am waiting for an 88 on a sidecar. Cheers! Gabriel.


HEY! How about a PaK.36/37 3.7cm on a Bicycle?
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Posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 06:23 PM UTC

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Well, well, well, another example of weird German projects created to help keep someone away from the actual fighting.
Many weapons projects were started as a way to try and keep the involved engineers et.c. away from the dangerous parts of the war, the places where people die ....

Outriggers to stabilise the whole thing would have been nice.
Getting outriggers deployed when enemy aircraft suddenly turn up takes too long time ...
Hum ....wouldn't it have been easier to put the gun on a smallish trailer pulled behind the Schwimmwagen ? Nah... getting it into firing mode takes too long time, even if it had some kind of quick release which would drop the gun platform onto the ground.

Need new tactics against fighter-bombers or a heavier (and more stable) vehicle. Preferably a tracked one with a suspension lock-out ...

/ Robin


No more ridiculous than a MAUS or an E-100...
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Posted: Thursday, December 24, 2015 - 05:05 AM UTC

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Well, well, well, another example of weird German projects created to help keep someone away from the actual fighting.
Many weapons projects were started as a way to try and keep the involved engineers et.c. away from the dangerous parts of the war, the places where people die ....

Outriggers to stabilise the whole thing would have been nice.
Getting outriggers deployed when enemy aircraft suddenly turn up takes too long time ...
Hum ....wouldn't it have been easier to put the gun on a smallish trailer pulled behind the Schwimmwagen ? Nah... getting it into firing mode takes too long time, even if it had some kind of quick release which would drop the gun platform onto the ground.

Need new tactics against fighter-bombers or a heavier (and more stable) vehicle. Preferably a tracked one with a suspension lock-out ...

/ Robin


No more ridiculous than a MAUS or an E-100...


Yep! Silly projects came in all sizes but the bigger silly projects had a potential for keeping more people away from the dangerous business. Don't forget the Ratte .....

/ Robin
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Posted: Thursday, December 24, 2015 - 04:20 PM UTC

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Well, well, well, another example of weird German projects created to help keep someone away from the actual fighting.
Many weapons projects were started as a way to try and keep the involved engineers et.c. away from the dangerous parts of the war, the places where people die ....

Outriggers to stabilise the whole thing would have been nice.
Getting outriggers deployed when enemy aircraft suddenly turn up takes too long time ...
Hum ....wouldn't it have been easier to put the gun on a smallish trailer pulled behind the Schwimmwagen ? Nah... getting it into firing mode takes too long time, even if it had some kind of quick release which would drop the gun platform onto the ground.

Need new tactics against fighter-bombers or a heavier (and more stable) vehicle. Preferably a tracked one with a suspension lock-out ...

/ Robin


No more ridiculous than a MAUS or an E-100...


Yep! Silly projects came in all sizes but the bigger silly projects had a potential for keeping more people away from the dangerous business. Don't forget the Ratte .....

/ Robin


Riiiiight... The "Ratte"- a battleship on tracks... How and where were these machines to be built? How would they get around? These proposed "weapons" were to be so heavy that that the ground couldn't support them...
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