These have been working their way through the moulding queue for a while now, as there's a few parts involved in some of them and we wanted to make sure they were easy to assemble. First up we've got a pair of Austrian tractors, manufactured by Austro-Daimler. The M12 was produced before the war began and was put to use towing the Skoda 30.5cm Morsers. By 1916 the army were looking for a better tractor to do this job, so the M17 was brought into service instead. Whilst exact production numbers are not known, some of these M17's were used by the German army as well, so could be put to dual use on your tables.
We've also got the aforementioned 30.5cm howitzers, in both deployed and towed versions, with the deployed gun coming supplied with a set of crew. We've also added it to the WWII German range where we'll supply it with WWII crew.
WWI
Austro-Hungarian - http://www.pendraken.co.uk/World-War-I-c17/Austro-Hungarian-sc105/
AH17 Skoda 30.5cm Morser M11 gun, deployed with crew (1) £3.00
AH18 Austro-Daimler M12 tractor £3.00
AH19 Austro-Daimler M17 tractor £3.00
AH20 Skoda 30.5cm Morser M11 gun, dismantled with 3 transport trailers £4.95
And the pics:
AH17 - 30.5cm Morser, deployed
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/AH17.JPG)
AH18 - Austro-Daimler M12
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/AH18.JPG)
AH19 - Austro-Daimler M17
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/AH19.JPG)
AH20 - 30.5cm Morser, towed
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/AH20.JPG)
Very nice indeed !
Cheers - Phil
I'll be looking for some of those to hold back the Russian steamroller.
Quote from: Leman on 14 August 2016, 08:03:38 AM
I'll be looking for some of those to hold back the Russian steamroller.
The towed morser will be separate bagged for each trailer to keep it easy for assembly :D
Dave
Quote from: Dave on 14 August 2016, 12:22:33 PM
easy for assembly
Remember that, folks. "Easy to assemble".
Quote from: fsn on 14 August 2016, 04:05:10 PM
Remember that, folks. "Easy to assemble".
That statement goes with "the cheque is in the post" and " I won't .........."
Joking aside they are really nice models
Very nice models.
MickS
Very nice, what would be used to tow the mortar? Would all 3 parts be town together, or by separate vehicles?
The WW2 German incarnations appear to have been split into 2 loads (barrel and carriage) each pulled by an SdKfz 8 halftrack.
(http://forum.axishistory.com/download/file.php?id=224582&sid=afdc29b8257c941c7c6c40a187a99e69)
The WW1 versions appear to have been drawn by a single vehicle
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Austrian_30.5cm_Mortar_Transportation.jpeg)
Ta, the WWI tractor must have been very powerful (though presumably slow!) to shift all that lot - and all the crew men!
The tractor could pull the whole gun and carry the creww :D
Lovely work and would fit in nicely with my AVBCW stuff :)
The Gun was used by the Czech Army pre WW2 the Yugoslavian as well and the Germans then used them in Sevastopol and I think Lenningrad
Any chance of an exploded (pardon the pun) picture of the firing version to help assembly?
Quote from: JeffNNN on 09 October 2016, 08:01:38 PM
Any chance of an exploded (pardon the pun) picture of the firing version to help assembly?
No you better half requested that Leon remove it, apparently your not allowed to buy any more war-games models until its correctly assembled and painted. Thus ensuring no more orders for some time. :)
Quote from: Orcs on 10 October 2016, 03:07:30 PM
No you better half requested that Leon remove it, apparently your not allowed to buy any more war-games models until its correctly assembled and painted. Thus ensuring no more orders for some time. :)
Really helpful. You're now another day ahead of schedule.
Quote from: JeffNNN on 09 October 2016, 08:01:38 PM
Any chance of an exploded (pardon the pun) picture of the firing version to help assembly?
I'll see if I can get a picture taken of the parts.
I found the firing one fairly easy to put together, by looking closely at the photos.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GNbIQ9Shoyl2w59xAnZnrqkfBXBX7G-yzIsko1bGPrvmoo9tMrqSlMwKyi8L3OjxSvOpLeW7XAsS2Q=w2560-h1440-no)
This hasn't had the foot plate added to the near side.
I found that the barrel support, and the barrel didn't go in the orientation I expected, so check these carefully.
Thank you Fred, that should do the job. Not sure I'll ever actually use it, except perhaps as a scenario objective but, as your picture perfectly illustrates, it falls into the "ooh shiny" category.
I am going to get one and sit it on the baseline of Square Bashing games to deliver the barrages. When all the barrage assets are used up it will be disassembled and tractored away.