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US 6” gun by RGL - FINISHED - Panzer Concepts
Egilman replied to RGL's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
When I get around to mine, I probably wouldn't go that far..... Nice work.... -
Where I live, all you would need is the bill of materials and the vin for the car the engine came out of.... They would assign it a new VIN and then title and register it... Although the assessor will argue over value, generally it would be valued at the cost of the materials to build it.... Easy easy way to get a hot car for little money.... The P/W for that must be just under a light crotch rocket, with twice the traction.... {BSEG)
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US 6” gun by RGL - FINISHED - Panzer Concepts
Egilman replied to RGL's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I have three of them as well and after looking them over, I have to admit it going to take some work to bring the tractors up to the level of the gun as far as crisp clean detail.... But I'm sure you can do it....- 235 replies
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It was my pleasure, remember research is my second hobby.... Pay it forward brother, that's what I'm doing for those that helped me.... thank you...
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Mike, Superlative... beautiful presentation.... Master modeler level work.... Finescale Modeler, eat your heart out!!!! It belongs on the cover of a magazine my friend....
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Very Very close to pre-war deck grey brother.... In real life it would be gloss with embedded grit for traction, you've got the scale representation down my friend.... I love it! Simple, but stunningly beautiful mike.... Another masterpiece model.... Well done...
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US 6” gun by RGL - FINISHED - Panzer Concepts
Egilman replied to RGL's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Short answer is kinda, they had the towing capacity for sure, the 10 ton & 20 ton holt tractors, The 5 & 10 ton Macks and the 5 Ton Standard B truck that could pull anything mostly it was cause the wheels on the carriages couldn't stand up to off road towing and they were predominantly non split trail carriages... (which were much lighter than a standard carriage) The light guns did move as one unit but still used caissons and limbers for mobility... The 9.2" howitzer broke down into three loads, the 8" Mk VI & VII as well the 240mm French Howitzer was three loads... The two PDF's I posted to Greg on the artillery earlier in the thread breaks this down in detail... In essence this was the period where they were transitioning from horse drawn to mechanized... At the start of the war they still hauled most of the artillery with horse teams.... In fact I'm going to do a horse team gun to go with my WWI artillery collection... Probably a French 75 in US service....- 235 replies
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US 6” gun by RGL - FINISHED - Panzer Concepts
Egilman replied to RGL's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Yep, hot water soak and light persuasion usually brings it back into shape.... Nice start.... -
The Great Great grandchild of the 10 ton Mack AC... And the last of the chain drive trucks with narrow panel cabs.... From this they designed and build the 10 ton Mack NO's of WWII fame... The original haul anything anywhere trucks... Beautiful rendition my friend... She looks great...
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Turning out stunningly beautiful, in an engineering sort of way.... The future of modeling.....
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It's a demolition machine for medium grade jobs... I've seen on in operation pull down a 4400 sq foot 2 floor, (8800 total sq ft) steel framed brick walled machine shop in abut 6 hours leaving it in piles for the loaders to load into trucks... Very efficient and powerful machines... Another one was observed to rip off the entire roof of a stick built home in 30 seconds then taking another minute to cut it up.... I'm down for this one....
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US 6” gun by RGL - FINISHED - Panzer Concepts
Egilman replied to RGL's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Excellent! I'll also add the 1920 version as well... That will give you an idea of what we had at the armistice and then three years later when we adopted the best of such equipment as standard issue and disposed of the rest... I think you will do this piece justice.... They went overseas in dark navy grey overall, and in the midst of the battalion getting trained they were being painted in the standard pattern agreed upon by the allies of the time, Dirt Brown, (dark kahki) Medium Green (British Army Green in irregular splotches) and the resulting splotches bordered by 4" black stripes.... and of course everything that touched the ground was splattered in muted mud brown liquid with chunks of sticky mud stuck to everything on and around the underbelly.... {chuckle} if anyone can do it justice you can brother... Here's an example... They are both 6" naval guns the front one is the 1905 on the M1917 carriage depicted in the kit with the standard camo applied, the rear gun is a 6" M1903 naval gun on the same carriage in it's shipping paint of dark Navy Grey... This is going to be a fantastic build... 1918 Handbook of Ordanace Data.pdf Handbook of artillery including mobile, anti-aircraft and trench materiel 1920.pdf
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US 6” gun by RGL - FINISHED - Panzer Concepts
Egilman replied to RGL's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I'm sure they did it that way when necessary, but the standard train for the 6" 1905 Gun was the Carriage on its limber pulled by the Holt tractor or a Standard "B" 5 ton truck with the Barrel transport wagon on it's limber hooked up to the carriage while carrying the gun barrel.... The second tractor or truck would be hauling a couple of caissons and the tool/repair wagon hooked as a train as well... They would then have a couple of two or three ton trucks to haul the crew... The FWD or the Nash would be a good period piece to represent this.... The Officers were usually riding in a White command (reconnaissance) car.... There were other pieces included in the train as well but not too many pics of them out there and they would have to be scratch built, (the forge trailer, the gun director trailer and parts trailer.... An artillery train for a full battery would consist of over 50 vehicles to haul four guns with all their accoutrements... A full artillery battalion would be over 250 vehicles for 12-16 guns.... Only four vehicles we had could haul the heavy gun trains, the Holt 75 & 150 tractors, the Standard "B" 5 ton Truck and the Mack AC 5 ton or ten ton.... This is according to the US Army Manual of Artillery dated November 1918... Just after the armistice.... I have a copy of it if you would like it... EG -
US 6” gun by RGL - FINISHED - Panzer Concepts
Egilman replied to RGL's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
It's a very nice model... The Holt 75 was one of the prime movers for it, the Holt 150 and the Standard "B" Liberty Truck were the others The Holt 75 pulled everything the AEF had at one time or another, your images show the Mk VI 8" howitzer the GPF 155mm gun and the 9.2" howitzer in it's triple train.... It's a shame the 6" never got to be used in actual combat... Going to be an excellent build.... I'm in... (wouldn't miss it for the world) -
Interesting, I see a 747, and F-18 & F-15 in that.... Very inventive....
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Aww I wouldn't worry too much, it is still in it's shipping crate and the stevedore's don't seem to be in too much of a hurry.... {chuckle} Besides the Masonry is looking too good to blast holes in it.... Nice work...
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Or modeling nerds.... https://www.ebay.com/itm/165900957344?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=165900957344&targetid=1263104806246&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=9033423&poi=&campaignid=14859008593&mkgroupid=130497710760&rlsatarget=pla-1263104806246&abcId=9300678&merchantid=112317872&gclid=CjwKCAiAxP2eBhBiEiwA5puhNet30xlKK3a03DHVJG-ANoIChhD6_U6ygjqQyBazfDZjne_NOVDafxoCMLwQAvD_BwE Only one of several different versions/scales available...
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You know what she said? Who cares about the angle of the dangle! Well done!!! She looks beautiful andy, Very nice....
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4 more infusions (2-3 months) and I'll be joining you at the WB.... Glad to see you back!!!! Nice work on the decals...
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I'm down for this one my friend....
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That would be something..... The Napier Sabre, one heck of an engine, not a Merlin by any stretch but eventually became a good solid powerplant although underpowered compared to it's contemporaries... the Merlin and R2800... https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-media/NASM-A19670111000-NASM2014-05108 CMK makes the Sabre Engine for the Eduard kit.... https://www.scalemates.com/kits/cmk-4393-tempest-napier-sabre-engine-upper-half-eduard--1242698 CMK also makes the full engine as a generic AM set.... (in 1/48th scale) https://www.scalemates.com/kits/cmk-4215-napier-sabre-mkii--113397
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Yep, Backlight the box so the light spills down the upper stairs and reflects into the space highlights the detail without overpowering the lamp over the staircase landing... Gives you two highlighted interest points in the picture leaving the shadows over the upper staircase.... A simple switch would make it so the upper attic light could be off or on so you would get the best of both worlds... Brilliant vision as to scale lighting effects... Very well thought out Gary....
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You must have been a old style carpenter in a former life Grant... Gorgeous looking pole barn framing, the plate ties, (ceiling joists in a house) rafters and collar ties all are authentic to what the real things should look like.... (simplified for scale though) Beautiful work my friend....
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In my not so esteemed opinion, the first part is more accurate than the second part... In my experience, when you like what your doing, the abilities come along for the ride.... The muse never lies brother....
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