Thursday, 16 June 2016

Minenwerfer

Time now for some Great War era bodging.  I found a sci-fi/steampunk type cannon on eBay and bought a couple hoping they'd be useful for something.  After the customary period of dust-gathering I was looking at a photo of some German minenwerfers.  These seemed to have been built in several different sizes so I figured that bodging such a thing was thus easier if I didn't have to worry what size the resulting model was!
Anyway, much bodging later here is the finished minenwerfer, complete with crew adapted from Armies in Plastic infantry.  I think it looks sort of OK-ish.
Oh, and did I mention that it fires plastic pellets?  Oh yes!


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11 comments:

  1. Conrad Kinch17 June 2016 at 00:14

    I'm not minenwerfer,
    I'm the minenwerfer's son,
    and I'll be werfen minens
    'til the minen werfens done.

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  2. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com17 June 2016 at 01:08

    I don't know what the originals looked like but this definitely says "early 20thC thing that goes BOOM"(or sproing)

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  3. Pete.17 June 2016 at 01:37

    Looks the part to me Tim. Bonus that it fires too.

    Cheers,

    Pete.

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  4. Don M17 June 2016 at 03:19

    Close enough to target.......)

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  5. tradgardmastare17 June 2016 at 06:53

    Looks the part Tim and where can you go wrong if it fires pellets!
    Alan

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  6. Tim Gow17 June 2016 at 07:58

    Conrad Kinch
    Just the sort of cheery ditty one associates with trench bombardments!

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  7. Tim Gow17 June 2016 at 07:59

    Ross Mac
    Sproing? Yes, that'll put the fear of God into Tommy Englander.

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  8. Tim Gow17 June 2016 at 07:59

    Pete
    Exactly my thoughts.

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  9. Tim Gow17 June 2016 at 07:59

    DonM
    Not when I've test fired it....

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  10. Tim Gow17 June 2016 at 08:00

    Tradgardmastare
    Aside from retrieving the pellets from under furniture it's a winner!

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  11. maximex17 June 2016 at 19:45

    Hi
    The fine rise, very rare model.
    Cheap and effective device bunkers and barbed wire against
    7.5 cm minimum and 38 cm in the largest
    and also showed effectiveness against tanks

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