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.

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10 comments:

  1. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com23 November 2019 at 01:18

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

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  2. Brian Carrick23 November 2019 at 08:28

    That AAMG is a very nice piece of kit.

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  3. JLee11823 November 2019 at 16:33

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

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  4. Tim Gow24 November 2019 at 16:43

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

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  5. Tim Gow24 November 2019 at 16:44

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

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  6. Tim Gow24 November 2019 at 16:45

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

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  7. Geordie an Exiled FoG24 November 2019 at 21:55

    I have support weapon envy

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  8. Tim Gow24 November 2019 at 22:15

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

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  9. Tim Gow24 November 2019 at 22:16

    Geordie
    Everything looks bigger in 54mm...

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