This is an image from the Tamiya website but I can assure you that my Kanone looks identical. Being a motorised model the tracks are a little chunky but that aside it's a lovely thing. In term of scale it works out nearer to 1/40 but I can live with that.
It soon occurred to me (as it had to the 1960s Bundeswehr) that a 90mm gun is all very well but what if these new-fangled guided missiles catch on? Their solution was the Jagdpanzer Rakete with the 'kanone' replaced by er, 'raketes...' SS-11 to be precise.
I decided to copy those clever Germans and another model was soon on order.
When it arrived I set to work removing the gun and it's mantlet. I had expected this to involve a great deal of razor saw action but the gun assembly turned out to be a separate part which was easily(ish) prised off.
Missiles were aircraft weapons sourced from the spares box. The periscopes and bow MG (not fitted to all such vehicles) were adapted from 1/76 scale truck axles. So far so good. I'd better paint the thing.
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Like the title, like the vehicle, like the adaptation. By the way, just out of curiosity, I wondered if there was a Maori word 'rakete' and what its translation would be. As it transpires there are two meanings: 'racquet', and ... yep, you guessed it. Actually they are obviously transliterations of English words into Maori...
Very cool Tim- great conversion.
Cheers,
Pete.
From "fringe" project to "obsession"!
Sorry this must be a CoW 2015 Game already planned!
cool project
Very interesting vehicle. Very nice conversion. Enjoying these posts a lot.
Well done Tim, that's pretty much how the West Germans went about it.
Archduke Piccolo
So the Germans copied the Maoris? Gosh!
Pete
Thanks
Geordie
Hey, I can stop anytime. If only I had some willpower....
Al
I thought it would be an easy win!
Stephen Beat
Thanks - bodging never goes out of fashion.
Don M
They probably took it a bit more seriously though.
Tim your scales are getting bigger and bigger
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