Friday 22 November 2019

Tamiya US gun & mortar set

I've had this venerable Tamiya set knocking about for a while now, so recently I released the parts into the wild and began assembly.  It's a useful 'top-up' to soft plastic figure sets which are fine for blokes with rifles, SMG and LMG but tend to be lacking anything heavier.  This set contains a .30 cal MG, a Bazooka, a 0.50 cal AAMG and a mortar, along with eight crew figures.
Like all of these Tamiya kits it all went together easily enough.  The paintwork is intended to help them fit in with my 54mm Airborne figures.

10 comments:

Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com said...

Excellent. I found the hard plastic kits fine for wargaming, as long as I didn't drop them....too often....

Brian Carrick said...

That AAMG is a very nice piece of kit.

JLee118 said...

Ah this brings back memories. I remember using this kit as kid to convert a toy halftrack into a mortar carrier.

Tim Gow said...

Ross Mac
Quite. They don’t bounce as well as their bendy brethren.

Tim Gow said...

Brian Carrick
The AAMG alone justifies the purchase of the kit.

Tim Gow said...

JLee118
And no doubt you glued the MGs onto the same halftrack?

JLee118 said...

Sure did. At least with the .50 cal.

Geordie an Exiled FoG said...

I have support weapon envy

Tim Gow said...

JLee118
We’d all have done exactly the same in your shoes.

Tim Gow said...

Geordie
Everything looks bigger in 54mm...