This is a very nice looking model from Bolt Action Miniatures: the legendary German 88 flak gun in 28mm scale.
I have absolutely no use for this piece in Pulp gaming but if I had a spare £35 laying around I’d probably pick one up just to go with the DAK Germans I ordered earlier. Mind you that’s almost exactly $100nz at the moment so it’s quite a pricey piece.
It would make a superb objective. I just noticed that you can assemble it in transport mode so I could totally see it winding its way along with a convoy of German trucks after they raid the dig site are heading off with the artifact. I feel the sudden need to rent Indiana Jones again. :)
Pagumb
Yes…to be fair the whole kit is in white metal and as you mention can be assembled as emplaced or ready for transport.
An ‘88′ in this scale would probably be a good candidate for scratch building too actually…
Didn’t mean to imply that any unwillingness to spend $100nz on what would effectively be a terrain piece is unwise. Actually, it is the sign of a very wise mind. :)
Anyway, I visit a conversion website called Works in Progress and they have a thread on trying to scratch build an Blitzen 88 Field Gun that would fit into the 40K world:
http://s11.invisionfree.com/Work_In_Progress/index.php?showtopic=1807&st=0
Now I don’t know enough about WW2 German artillery to know if there’s a substantial difference between a field gun (artillery, right?) and a flak gun (anti-aircraft).
This link from within the thread seems to imply it’s the same gun:
http://www.cloudster.com/RealHardware/88mmFlak/88mmFlakTop.htm
Not that you need another terrain project but it might be fun if you get deeper into the Pulp gaming universe.
Nice link Pagumb! Regarding scratch building field guns I imagine the ’show stopper’ is the barrel basically. Mind you plastic rod of different gauges would probably suffice with lots of pinning and patching…
I don’t confess to know much about the details of German field guns either but I gather the ‘88′ was widely as AA and also as AT as its high velocity rounds were apparently good against armor (they’re fearsome in Flames of War). Plus the 88mm gun made it into the famous Tiger tank but who knows how it or it’s shells were modified for the different roles. That’s one for the historians!
Spike Milligan’s War Diaries actually mention the 88 explicitly too. Apparently you couldn’t hear the shells arriving overhead (maybe the high velocity again?) so coming under 88 fire was particularly harrowing because there was little or no warning you were under attack.
the 88 was good for both anti tank anti aircraft there were a few minor differences but you could set up for what ever you had to fight off.i think i have an article on the differences if someone wants them i can get them for you.it is a really nice model to in 1/35 scale produced by tamiya and i am currently working on one(its quite a beast to so many smaller bits)
I bought a ‘real’ modelling magazine recently because it had some Desert Rats articles and madly enough I’m now tempted by those Tamiya 1/35th scale kits.
Fortunately I have no idea how to paint at that scale (spray cans and/or airbrushes I assume) so I have a good reason NOT to rashly purchase a Tamiya kit in the future. Phew.
Maybe once I’m retired and sick of gaming I’ll get into the serious modelling and diorama scales.
well definite airbrush but i dont have one and so they remain mostly unpainted.but painting at such small scales fow 40k deinitly helped me weathering and such has become much more easy to achieve.but to get that nice camo finish you really need to have an airbrush.but dioramas are cool and i want to do one with my tiger/flack cannon and the 8 ton semi track.thats alot of work but im having alot of trouble applying zimmeritz to the tank i might try sending it off to pityak to get him to try as its one of my favorites and i want it to be done properly.but i say get into it start with something small with your skill and abilities youll have no probs