Landships II

Centurion · Legend

Italian Self Propelled Gun

Treadhead · Major

Didn't I just see this vehicle in kit form avaialable at Cri.el Models?..?

Could have sworn I did.........

Tread.

Roger Todd · Legend

Yes! Well spotted!

Tim R · Hero

Hey Guys

Look at my Models, {on Landships} I have scratch built one.

All the Best

Tim R.

Roger Todd · Legend

Damn, sorry Tim, I thought it looked familiar - beautiful job!

Tim R · Hero

Thanks Roger

I loved scratch building this one, I would like to build the ammo carrier version as well.

All the best

Tim R.

Roger Todd · Legend

Oh you should, you could work up quite a nice diorama of the two together.

Tim R · Hero

Thats what I am thinging Roger, My problem is I am not a great painter, I also would love to add figures, but there again, I can scratch build them, but paintingwell lets just say, that gift passed me by.

All The Best

Tim R.

28juni14 · Hero

Say Tim, what scale is this... 1/35? ... looks very nice !!

Tim R · Hero

Actually it is 1/32 scale. And thanks.

All the best

Tim R.

28juni14 · Hero

Ah ha!! 1/32nd Scale! I knew it had a special appeal to me for some reason! And from whence did you acquire the plans ?

eugene · Field Marshal

wonderful job tim

paitning scratch built soldierd is sometimes evne harder, miliput doesnt take acrylics too well

Tim R · Hero

I have a set of drawings that a friend sent me; also an old French magazine (Steel Masters) had a scratch build up article in it. That was my main inspiration. Plus a ton of pictures.

All the Best

Tim R.

Centurion · Legend

eugene wrote:

wonderful job tim paitning scratch built soldierd is sometimes evne harder, miliput doesnt take acrylics too well

As a one time builder of scratch built figures in Miliput can I recommend undercoating with white from an old fashioned car (full size) paint spray. The current ones work quite well but the old cellulose based ones provided an excellent base for arcylics, poster, water based 'oils' and good old fashioned proper oils.

SASH155 · Major

Hello everyone from Alexandria, VA. I first would like to say that the model is beautiful. However, there seems to be some confusion as to its identity among the posters to the site. The gun is in fact not 105mm at all, but 102mm, granted, a very unusual caliber. The precise designation of this weapon in Italian was "Autocanone da 102/35 Ansaldo/Schneider su autocamion SPA 9000". The weapon had an unusual breech system designed by Schneider in France (this weapon was not used by France and was unique to Italy) involving a breechblock that rotated down horizontally to the axis of the breech ring when it was opened. The posters on the site are forgiven for thinking initially that this could be a 105mm as the Italians used another truck chassis (I am not certain the make, but probably Fiat) with the ordnance and recoil system of a Schneider 105mm L13S field gun (Cannone da 105/28 in Italian parlance) mounted on a pedestal on the extreme rear of the cargo bed. The Cannone da 102/35 was used as a field piece, anti aircraft gun and coastal defense gun, and some remained as static anti-aircraft guns as late as the end of the Second World War. There was also an L/45 version of this weapon.