Landships II

SkAh · Private

Building three 210mm german heavy mortars

eugene · Field Marshal

verlinden makes 210mm mortars? how good is the kit, and where can I find one?

the mortar and the figures look nice. good job!

SkAh · Private

Hello,

The kit is the ver-1022�from Verlinden.

I got 2 from http://www.depothobbies.com/Resin%20and%20Photo%20etch.htm
And the last one from: www.netmerchants.co.uk

Approximative price was 40USD.

This kit is discountinued, but I think you can easily find some at local retailers.

I'm not used to very detailed models, so my opinion will not be worth something. However, this kit is complicated, verrry detailed, and fragile.

Regards,

Lionel

eugene · Field Marshal

thanks for the info!

Rhomboid · Field Marshal

Nice model, Lionel. Do you intend to use it as a Medusa or as a Heavy Mortar? The crew are quite unique - will they be your version of the Death Korps of Krieg?

SkAh · Private

Hello,

What can I say but: Mos' definitely !

I've been trying to find models that would suit the Krieg style, inorder not to use the verry expensive ForgeWorld models.

I found replacements for every model, as FW took inspiration from WW2 and WW1 models. I will use them as Medusas, relative to their sheer�size. I've planned to use Nebelwerfers as Thudd guns, and MK1 for centaurs... As you've seen, the grunts will all be Bauhaus troopers, for sale @ 15 the 80s!

>> Questions:

> What does an ammo crate looks like ? I cannot find one on the pictures.

Except here: http://www.landships.freeservers.com/jpegs_new/number_14/21cm_mrs_bwpic%20(41).jpg

There is a wooden box, but nothing except the loading platform put on its side, can say its one.

> I'am starting the ground worksin clay. On the site, one picture is described to have "by the book" ground work. Are there any historical references I could have access to ?

Help ?

Lionel

-- Edited by SkAh at 11:02, 2008-06-08

SkAh · Private

Dear all,

Here are the assuptions I took to create my first artillery site, which features a 210mm mortar, being loaded by its crew.

I assumed, from the pictures of the website that:
- The mortar have to be put into horizontal position to be loaded.
- The shell is transported on a carriage with 4 iron bars to move it.�The carriage is�put on the�"balancer", locked on it, and the whole thing�is lifted into position by the crew.
- The "rear part closing the cannon" is of course slided in open position.
- There�is one or two crew members who use a wooden stick (a "gaffe") to slide the shell into the "culasse" of the cannon.

Hmm... this is it,for now.

You have two pictures of the current state of the dio. All models will have magnetic bases, this is why you see the pile of magnetic stuff, and that the upper model base is cut in the artillery model.

SkAh