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!


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11 comments:

  1. Martin Rapier15 June 2019 at 18:14

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

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  2. Robert (Bob) Cordery15 June 2019 at 18:30

    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

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  3. Peter15 June 2019 at 23:09

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

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  4. Archduke Piccolo16 June 2019 at 05:07

    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.

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  5. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com16 June 2019 at 12:21

    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!

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  6. Tim Gow16 June 2019 at 17:13

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

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  7. Tim Gow16 June 2019 at 17:14

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

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  8. Tim Gow16 June 2019 at 17:14

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

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  9. Tim Gow16 June 2019 at 17:16

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

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  10. Tim Gow16 June 2019 at 17:17

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

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  11. Chris Kemp16 June 2019 at 20:33

    This springs to mind, Tim.

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

    Regards, Chris.

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