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This all started last year when I was over round at my mate Alan's place in the south east(again!!).
He collects 1:32 scale timpo plastic soldiers and vehicles from the 60's & 70's through to britain's stuff that I can remember playing with as a lad.
I often take a wander with him to the toy fairs to see what diecast stuff's knocking about for wargaming.
He has a massive plastic mountain LOADS of this stuff and as you would expect quite a large bits box....
A couple of german mortar teams that lacked mortars, so armed with my trusty toolkit and plasticard/tube and one genuine one as a reference I scratchbuilt two for him and he was 'made up'.
So as I love a challenge, he showed me a damged bren carrier, (a chunk out of the side, gun missing and no crew)
What can you do with this?
(stock image as I didn't take a pic before work started).
So the gauntlet was thrown down.
I started looking at captured bren carriers/universal carriers and saw that the often became panzerfaust mounted little panzerjagers.
Interesting but a little 'boring' from the perspective of a custom job.
So then I thought about marders and elefants:
And then my mind kinda went into overdrive:
Parts:
plasti-card plain and checkerplate
plasti-rod
plastic tube
turret, vision slits, MG42, jack and pickaxe from a revell armoured train car kit I'd had in my bits box for years.
Stowage from dragon and Gamesworkshop Chimera kit
shells ammo boxes from dragon accessory pack
barrel muzzle (pak) found in a load of old plastic junk I got off ebay years ago.
bluetac (lots of it will explain later!
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Now bearing in mind this was to go with toys from the 60's and 70's I could have left this very plain and underdetailed, but thought screw that...and went for the whole tank wacking, camo'd reasonably detailed monkey you see before you.
Ok then here we go:
First things first, I repaired the missing chunk and added a large sheeting roll. the open section of the carrier at the back was covered over and the turret mounted. The turret is purely for observation, with the gun being mounted lower down in the place where the little bren would have been mounted.
Half the front cabin was then given a roof and the exposed areas checkerplated.
Chains, stowage, packs, sandbags were all added.
The barrel was made from two pieces of plasti-tube, one slightly narrow than the other which slid into place giving the recoil section.
I managed to scratchbuild a gunmount and breach cover and added three shells which looked the perfect size from the dragon kit as were the ammo boxes and crates.
For the rear of the hunter:
i thought about the weight and recoil that this little hunter would carry and suffer, with all that weight at the nose I though to balance it and in keeping with the panzerjager look I added a simple lower armoured plate that I detailed with two half circle rod pieces and added rivets.
The pick axe and jack from the revell kit and fuel and water cans on the rear and on the turret. Adding a little strap harness with a piece of plasticard.
The rest of the tank had further rivets added and an mg42 added using plasti-rod to make a weapon mount on the turret. Two types of GW turret hatch were located from the bits box as I was in two minds at the time which looked best, (later rhino or early russ/chimera).
Remember that this is in no attempt to be historical, it's not meant to be a bren carrier, its a weird war panzerjager! Enjoy!
More to follow.
The Commander
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