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Posted by big p from gmg on 09 Dec 2019, 12:01

Selbstfahrlafette auf Fahrgestell VOMAG 7 OR 660 mit 8,8 cm from Flak, 1. Abteilung/Flakregiment 42 (mot.S.) – Budapest, Spring 1945.

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Posted by C M Dodson on 09 Dec 2019, 12:24

I have not seen one of these before.

Very nice modelling indeed.

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Posted by kursktiger.cn on 09 Dec 2019, 13:32

Very good work, I like it very much. Delicate camouflage, delicate aging
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Posted by Wiking on 09 Dec 2019, 16:28

Top build.
Top painting
Top weathering, scratches.
Nice figures top paint.

:yeah:
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Posted by Kostis Ornerakis on 09 Dec 2019, 20:38

Wonderful work!! :yeah: :-D
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Posted by lobo on 10 Dec 2019, 07:38

Astonishing…I cannot say anymore.
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Posted by Graeme on 10 Dec 2019, 16:53

Very impressive painting.
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Posted by Bill Slavin on 11 Dec 2019, 19:00

Very nice work. The Germans were so creative in their mounting of guns by war’s end! I had never seen this before.
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Posted by Erich von Manstein on 11 Dec 2019, 22:44

Bill Slavin wrote:The Germans were so creative in their mounting of guns by war’s end!


Actually this is an early war design.
Up to 24 vehicles were converted into the "Selbstfahrlafette auf Fahrgestell VOMAG 7 OR 660 mit 8,8cm Flak" in early 1940.
Just one of several attempts to mobilise the highly potent 8,8cm gun.
25 Sd.Kfz.8 were converted to "8,8cm Flak 18 auf schwerem Zugkraftwagen 12t" in 1939/40.
12 Sd.Kfz.9 were converted to "8,8cm Flak 37 auf s.Zgkw. 18t" in 1942.

When the 8,8cm gun finally equipped the Tiger I and highly effective 7,5cm guns became a common sight from 1942 onwards (PaK 40, Panther, StuG III or Panzer IV Ausf. F2 to J), the Wehrmacht was striving for better mobile AA-protection instead.
Thats why from 1943 onwards you can mount a 2cm or 3,7cm Flak on literally every vehicle halfway stable enough... . ;-)

Excellent paint-job on this Vomag! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Is it the Roden kit?
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Posted by big p from gmg on 12 Dec 2019, 03:43

Yes... the Roden one.
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