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Offline moif

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Motorized Tachanka
« on: March 06, 2010, 04:36:39 PM »
I built this model for my current Rocketman campaign. Its meant to be a sort of LRDG version of a Tachanka. The original model is a converted Matchbox Renault truck (I cut the cab and box off) and the figures are Copplestone (though the drivers body is an old wehrmacht figure, which I have no idea who made it as its been knocking around my scraps box for years).

BTW the faces do have details, but the flash on my camera is unforgiving.







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Offline Michi

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Re: Motorized Tachanka
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2010, 04:48:06 PM »
Now this one is really cool!

Offline bollix

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Re: Motorized Tachanka
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2010, 05:25:43 PM »
Very cool. I may have to flatter you with an imitation.  ;)

Like the way you've done the Maxim tripod.

What type of MG is that one facing forward?

Offline moif

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Re: Motorized Tachanka
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2010, 05:56:09 PM »
Bollix.
Its a plastic 40K guards rifle which has been carved up a bit and had an ammo box mounted.

Offline Christian

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Re: Motorized Tachanka
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2010, 11:39:40 PM »
Its a plastic 40K guards rifle which has been carved up a bit and had an ammo box mounted.

Genius! Good work!

Offline Remington

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Re: Motorized Tachanka
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2010, 12:03:01 AM »
Wow... Amazing what you did to that Matchbox! Great conversion. I'd add my voice in favour of some wheel-weathering. Great work though.

Offline ushistoryprof

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Re: Motorized Tachanka
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2010, 10:09:22 PM »
Excellent conversion.

Offline Bako

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Re: Motorized Tachanka
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2010, 05:29:17 AM »
No way would they have been able to afford the petrol, though the idea certainly is novel. :)

What type of MG is that one facing forward?

That would be a current edition Imperial Guard Cadian-issue lasgun (Warhammer 40k) that's met the business end of an x-acto and presumably a hobby drill. Dunno about the box clip however. (I'll also throw it out there that I prefer the older designs of Imperial flashlight too while I'm regurgitating geeky bile... lol)
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Offline Mark Plant

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Re: Motorized Tachanka
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2010, 07:32:21 AM »
No way would they have been able to afford the petrol, though the idea certainly is novel. :)

Petrol was an issue, but because of precarious supply lines, not because of cost. (At the time both Galicia and Baku had active wells.)

The Whites in South Russia did mount MGs like this in 1920. On Model T trucks.

Offline Bako

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Re: Motorized Tachanka
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2010, 07:38:25 AM »
Yes, yes. My blunder. :)

Offline bollix

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Re: Motorized Tachanka
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2010, 01:49:57 AM »
The Whites in South Russia did mount MGs like this in 1920. On Model T trucks.

I like the MG, but have no idea what type it might be. What type, available in 1920, looked like this?

Offline moif

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Re: Motorized Tachanka
« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2010, 09:58:46 AM »
My Rocketman campaign is set in an alt-history, mid to late 1930's, so it has a curious mixture of old and new.

 

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