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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: Laflin and Rand on 11 April 2010, 01:53:53 AM
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I'd like to find a Maxim gun for a contraption I want to build. I hear Brigade Games has some but I can't find any on their web site. How are the ones from Old Glory?
How about 28mm scale safety bicycles or early motorcycles?
Just guess what I'm getting at :D
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North Star/Great War has a British motorcyclist in the "British Characters" pack as seen here:
http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=574
with better picture here:
http://scarabminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5_25_26&products_id=92
Old glory makes real Maxims on cavalry carriages in their Boer War artillery range which might be able to separate from the rest of the model. Great War also makes MG08s, Vickers guns, and M1917s on tripods for their Germans, British, and Americans respectfully.
Copplestone makes Vickers under "Back of Beyond" and "World War I" for the British.
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I got my maxim's from a Black Tree Design WW2 Soviet Naval blister.
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Just guess what I'm getting at :D
I've tried to google a pic of the contraption in question, but my google-fu is depleted at present :(
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Checked out this site. Maxims and gunner
http://www.tobsen77.de/ (http://www.tobsen77.de/)
Tobsenn77 is a LAF member check out the workbench for his latest work
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I've tried to google a pic of the contraption in question, but my google-fu is depleted at present :(
Oh just a four wheeled, motorized bicycle with a maxim mounted on. ;D
Not sure if there would be any pictures of one to be found on google.
The one on Tobsenn's site looks like it'll do the trick.
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(http://www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk/images/clyno.jpg)
Something like that?
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Ooof!
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Something like that?
Now that's ace! Though I'm not going for something so refined. ;)
Take a look at this one 8)
(http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x292/grapperyeah/vestank.jpg)
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Ooof!
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You're going to make yourself a Davidson 4-wheeled car:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4d/Northwestern_cadets_with_4_wheeled_gun_carriage_1899.png/800px-Northwestern_cadets_with_4_wheeled_gun_carriage_1899.png)
I must say, I prefer the 3-wheeled version more:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Davidson_Duryea_gun_carriage_1899.jpg)
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I prefer the three wheeler. I wonder how fast it didn't go ;)
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There is a 4 wheeled bicycle version which I expect is what is being made. Damned if I can remember what it's called though. There's a thread on it somewhere in the depths of this forum.
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You're going to make yourself a Davidson 4-wheeled car:
I must say, I prefer the 3-wheeled version more:
It appears to me that I must agree with you on both counts.
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It appears to me that I must agree with you on both counts.
Good. Can't wait to see it.
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I always liked this picture
(http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/ac10/Kapitanmors/VSF/bike.jpg)
Which comes from this book
(http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/ac10/Kapitanmors/VSF/cover.jpg)
The chapter is called Gallant Deeds By Cyclists and the caption reads Gallant Stand By Cyclists In Parr Wood
Mors
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Great illustration, although I wish there were more cyclists in the Gallant Deeds By Cyclists picture. :(
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The cycles are leaning up against the trees behind them , according to the book this a a section of the Royal Lancaster consisting of six cyclists and a LMG mounted on a double cycle under the command of Sergeant Irons, they held off about 30 Russian dragoons and a force of infantry.
Hope they missed the horses!
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That's cool.
This was the picture I was thinking of.
(http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/GreatBritain/GB-Armored-PoweredQuadracycle-June1899.jpg)
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That's cool.
This was the picture I was thinking of.
(http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/GreatBritain/GB-Armored-PoweredQuadracycle-June1899.jpg)
This is actually the exact picture I was thinking about. Thanks! I also now have a term to put to it. Machinegun Quadracycle. I think I'll stick with the three wheeled Davidson though. Only, with a small steam engine. I'm still working on a parts list. What model kit scale is closest to 28mm again?
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What model kit scale is closest to 28mm again?
It depends on the subject matter and the figures you are trying to match.
1/60 or 1/56 would be the "closest" sizes, but 1/48 kits and 1/43 vehicles are usually cheaper and more readily available.
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It depends on the subject matter and the figures you are trying to match.
1/60 or 1/56 would be the "closest" sizes, but 1/48 kits and 1/43 vehicles are usually cheaper and more readily available.
Thanks. Would anyone happen to be aware of any model kits for a Davidson or other vehicles of the period I could use to bash one together? A smaller scale would work too since what I really could use are wheels and the basic shape. Civilian version would be perfectly fine.