Landships II

Paul Bonnett · Hero

New WW1 models

rue_d_etropal · Captain

Been waiting for those figures for a while. Don't think they are officially available for a couple of weeks, but did see a listing on eBay from someone in Ukraine offering them for sale. Think I will wait as not in that much of a hurry.

-- Edited by rue_d_etropal on Thursday 29th of May 2014 04:41:42 PM

Paul Bonnett · Hero

I think the Skoda 30.5cm M1916 Siege Howitzer has great early war diorama potential, and its great to see more Great War era kits arriving in plastic.
Paul

CharlieC · Legend

Careful - you'll have have the rivet counters having conniptions. The M1916 was deployed from 1917 onwards. For an early war diorama you'd need a Skoda M1911

this is sufficiently different that an M1916 really couldn't be a standin.

Regards,

Charlie

Paul Bonnett · Hero

Sorry Charlie, I relied on good ol' wikipedia and got it wrong

But would it be a viable candidate for conversion ?

CharlieC · Legend

I think it would be very difficult - the effort required would probably no different from scratchbuilding an M1911. I'll have a look when I get a bit more time and find an image

of the M1911 but the take home message would be "the M1911 and M1916 have a similar configuration but there are major differences in most components of the gun".

Regards,

Charlie

28juni14 · Hero

The two weapon systems have little in common other than calibre, and the steel firing platform. Hecker & Goros marketed an excellent example of the M11, but it was discontinued when the molds wore out a couple of years ago.