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Offline Fitz

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Bishop
« on: July 11, 2019, 05:33:52 AM »


The Bishop was a British attempt at a self-propelled gun, mounting the excellent 25 pounder gun-howitzer on the chassis of a Valentine tank in a big steel box. It was not entirely successful; the gun couldn't reach its full elevation, so range was impaired, and the very high silhouette made it very difficult to conceal in the desert. Very little ready ammunition could be stored in the vehicle itself, so it towed an artillery limber for its immediate use.



This is one of Bergman's 1:100 scale (15mm) models which I printed some time ago, but have just now got around to painting.

It's not likely that I'll actually use the limber on the wargames table; there's no benefit to it under the Battlegroup rules, and it would necessitate basing the whole shebang, which I prefer not to do with vehicles.

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: Bishop
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2019, 09:15:04 AM »
Very nice.

Offline Ballardian

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Re: Bishop
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2019, 10:15:24 AM »
 Very nice, weathered just right :)

Offline Plynkes

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Re: Bishop
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2019, 02:50:38 PM »
A hellish ugly thing, ain't it?  Nicely done model though, good work.


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Re: Bishop
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2019, 04:48:30 PM »
A hellish ugly thing, ain't it?

As the actress said.

Offline Shahbahraz

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Re: Bishop
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2019, 06:01:28 PM »
Very nice indeed. I built the old ESCI kit in 1/72 a while back (and got the doors the wrong way round!)



I think yours looks better, especially with the trailer.
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