Saturday 15 June 2019

Japanese anti-tank gun. Or is it?

My latest bit of bodging resulted in this Japanese AT gun. It’s a sort of combination of the 37mm Type 94 and the 47mm Type 1. The crew are again adapted from the Tamiya infantry set while the gun is actually a Hinchliffe metal 1/76 scale German FH le18 105mm. If you stand about 10 feet away from your screen I think you’ll find it looks pretty good. My own standards being very low, I am very pleased with the ghastly monstrosity!


11 comments:

Martin Rapier said...

I've got two of those Hinchliffe 105s. I thought the AT gun looked familiar!

Robert (Bob) Cordery said...

Tim,

It works for me ... and it's a great re-purposing of an otherwise redundant model.

Years ago Stuart Asquith wrote an article about garden wargaming where his Japanese Army was made up of Deetail figures equipped with Crescent 13-pounder guns standing in for a Mountain Guns.

All the best,

Bob

Peter said...

The gun looks surprisingly effective. A nice bit of reuse.

Archduke Piccolo said...

I thought I recognised the 10.5cm FH le18 ancestry. But my attitude is that 'if it looks like what it's meant to be, then that is what it is.' Actually, if I had been asked to guess, and told it were Japanese WW2, I would have figured on 'infantry gun'. Apart from function, not a lot of difference in appearance.

Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com said...

Looks good to me but then identifying a model as small, 2nd quarter 20thC, artillery piece, comes close to my limit. This was a big help when doing my 54mm WWII Vichy French to defend Syria. $ store Marx undersized US howitzers with cardboard shields for AT guns, even cheaper $store copies of the classic RHA gun made with tractor wheels for everything else.

I got the Japanese part though!

Tim Gow said...

Martin Rapier
It’s all about context - a different colour and the crew make all the difference.

Tim Gow said...

Bob Cordery
The Crescent gun seemed like too easy an option!

Tim Gow said...

Peter
That 105 has been out of work for some years so it was nice to find it a job.

Tim Gow said...

Archduke Piccolo
I see we share the same (low) standards!

Tim Gow said...

Ross Mac
Cheap is good. And my 105 was effectively free!

Chris Kemp said...

This springs to mind, Tim.

https://notquitemechanised.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/truescale-german-vs-heroic-28mm/#comments

Regards, Chris.