Last week, I managed to finally finish (kind of) painting a few 15mm tanks for Africa, a platoon of Vickers Mk3 from QRF and one of my Mugabian T34 conversions with the ZU23/2 mounted in place of the turret. I love the Vickers Mk3s, they are just such nice sculpts.
The Vickers Mk3 is the newest tank in Uwanda's (African imagi-nation) inventory, with only a very small number serving in a few units. It will eventually replace the aging Fireflys and Centurion IIIs.
And here is my T34/23 conversion (totally fictional by the way ,for my African imagi-nation, Mugabia)
And the unit pictured together with ammo supply vehicle.
There are just a few of these in the Mugabian inventory to try to provide mobile rapid air defense for the President's armored forces.
Yes, the AA guns were scratch-built from styrene and brass rod, using QRF ZU23/2 models as a guide. Mine are a bit less detail, and a lot more clumsy. The QRF originals are quite nice models.
The Vickers were very cleanly cast and assembled quite easily, my paint doesn't do them justice.
I remember seeing a North Vietnamese (I think) T34 with a 57mm AA gun on display at Aberdeen some years ago, so figured this wasn't too much of a stretch for a conversion. The ammo carrier, well, a bit bigger stretch maybe.
I like your SPAA conversions! Is that a ZU-23-2?
ReplyDeleteYes, the AA guns were scratch-built from styrene and brass rod, using QRF ZU23/2 models as a guide. Mine are a bit less detail, and a lot more clumsy. The QRF originals are quite nice models.
DeleteThe Vickers Mk3 is a very clean looking model, and SPAA conversions is believable
ReplyDeleteand that's what counts!
The Vickers were very cleanly cast and assembled quite easily, my paint doesn't do them justice.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing a North Vietnamese (I think) T34 with a 57mm AA gun on display at Aberdeen some years ago, so figured this wasn't too much of a stretch for a conversion. The ammo carrier, well, a bit bigger stretch maybe.
Excellent, Irish, and I'm Abigail fan of those ZU-23 conversions too.
ReplyDeleteV/R,
Jack