Lorry Guns 3rd Afghan War

[FramFramson]

World's oldest technicals? 

[smirnoff]

I haven't been able to locate a suitable talbot lorry in 28mm. I'm currently in the process of building a gun portee truck on a crossley tender truck, using a Perrys gun asthe10pounder mountain gun. The dilemma I'm having is would the gun be mounted with its wheels in place or not. I haven't been able to find any information either way.

Be interested to see that build...

[Arlequín]

I haven't been able to locate a suitable talbot lorry in 28mm. I'm currently in the process of building a gun portee truck on a crossley tender truck, using a Perrys gun asthe10pounder mountain gun. The dilemma I'm having is would the gun be mounted with its wheels in place or not. I haven't been able to find any information either way.

For just practicality alone, leaving the wheels on makes it easier to roll up a makeshift ramp and to tie the gun down on the truck bed. Similar impromptu portees from other conflicts/armies usually show wheels on. Obviously that's not a definitive answer, more of an observation.

 

[smirnoff]

Makes sense Arlequin

Does anyone know what colour the Lorries were painted in in 1919?

And, while we are at it, the armoured cars?
I assume the ones that came in from Iraq were not repainted?

[Ste long 1971]

The photo on landships2 shows the talbot truck in a dark colour dark grey/black green. In the scramble for equipment in the Mediterranean/African/Afgan  campaigns, I think pretty much any standard colour would go. If you look at the imagies of the Rolls Royce armoured cars the variations on camouflage is quite extensive. But I'm sure some of the knowledgeable folk on here will have a more imfomed view of the colours