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Potatopanzer


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Hello All, Has anyone built this kit? Won it a few day's ago on Evilbay

the detail looks alittle heavy, Did a Google search for build guides references--NADA-ZIP-Nothing. This is my first sortie into WW1 Arty Any info/help/references/pic's are Welcomed. I don't usually suffer AMS but one never knows!

<img src="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/rNq6d-Xxyf4_2-7YjSNwHoQvW6xLgaiwnq96HC_HM3s?feat=directlink">



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THE OLD LANCER


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Hi Potatopanzer,
I did this kit ( under a different name, Encore Models ) a few years ago and had it placed in a few competitions at shows, nice kit for 1/24 scale.

THE OLD LANCER

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Which gun does this kit say it's modelling?

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Charlie



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The kit closely resembles the US 3in M1902 field gun.    This weapon system, other than the breach, stongly followed Ehrhardt design features.   Produced in limited numbers, it is not believed to have seen combat use other than in the 1916 Mexican Expedition.



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Hello Charlie, the 75mm WW1 artillery piece, that's all the instructions and box show, I was looking earlier this morning here on Landships and it is in several other posts, I'll have to find them again as I didn't think to add them here. I scanned the instruction sheet-its below.

Jim

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/NqzcB6E2eoGB-dkTy95GYoQvW6xLgaiwnq96HC_HM3s?feat=directlink

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ji3a79rzx616OPhpOoom2YQvW6xLgaiwnq96HC_HM3s?feat=directlink

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/qKyg4yi0W5DDZXYngTJH_IQvW6xLgaiwnq96HC_HM3s?feat=directlink

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/pkTx2_VCAhA5uT89k_3jb4QvW6xLgaiwnq96HC_HM3s?feat=directlink

 

 

 



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Old Lancer have any pic's?

28juni14 Yes that is correct, from what info I've been able to gather, it never served in The Great War. only used for practice  by American troops and in the Mexican campaign.



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The handbook for the US 3in gun (with drawings) is available at archive.org (can't find the exact URL at the moment). The 3in gun went through a series of models until it was replaced by the licence built French M1897.

The US did buy a small number of Ehrhardt guns before producing their own. It would be interesting to know if the original US Ehrhardt guns had the same breech as the 3in gun. German manufacturers were quite happy to supply whatever the customer wanted. For example, Argentina bought 75mm Krupp guns in 1909 with screw breeches whereas most other 75mm Krupp guns had a sliding wedge breech.

Couple of images of a surviving 3in M1902 at: http://canonspgmww1guns.canalblog.com/archives/p20-20.html

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Charlie



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Charlie, Hi smile.gif Thanks, I looked it up earlier today I had found a post prior to mine about the same thing, PDA, I think it was had posted a link to  an American archive and the hand book is downloadable in PDF and other formats. 120+pages that it'll make your printer work overtime.

Yes The French and Americans prefered the Interupted screw Breech whilst the Germans favoured the sliding breech which by the way has continued into today's modern Arty and Tank guns-excellent designers and fabricators those Germans!

Yeah! I found it!

Here is the earlier post by Wolhodden

"75mm World War 1 Artillery Piece" from HALES Life-Like Model Kits - Landships WW1 Forum
http://landships.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=63528&topicID=21030123


PDA supplied archive address

http://www.archive.org/details/handbookof3inchg00unitrich

O K Thanks everyone!biggrinbiggrinbiggrin



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