| Tango01 | 07 Jan 2015 12:11 p.m. PST |
Masters of Military proposes an 280mm M65 atomic gun at 1/285 (6 mm).
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| GarrisonMiniatures | 07 Jan 2015 12:41 p.m. PST |
There are too many temptations in the world. |
| zippyfusenet | 07 Jan 2015 1:17 p.m. PST |
How many of them in a battalion? I'm gonna need one or two battalions for on-table support. |
| hocklermp5 | 07 Jan 2015 3:02 p.m. PST |
Back in the day Renwal did a kit of this beast in much greater scale. I hesitate to say 1/32 but most of their other kits at that time were 1/32. I have to wonder just what this gun was all about. |
| skippy0001 | 07 Jan 2015 3:36 p.m. PST |
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Yup, my kind of art support-tough to drive around, tho. |
| chaos0xomega | 07 Jan 2015 4:13 p.m. PST |
I had the pleasure of *ahem* straddling one at Ft Reiley, KS. As for how many to a battalion (or battery) there were only 20 made total, so… no more than 20. |
| Lion in the Stars | 07 Jan 2015 9:24 p.m. PST |
When one of them chucks a 15kt warhead ~20 miles, do you need more than a single gun firing? link
Though I'm oddly tempted to get one in 15mm to use as an objective… |
| Tom Bryant | 08 Jan 2015 12:19 a.m. PST |
Back in the day Renwal did a kit of this beast in much greater scale. I hesitate to say 1/32 but most of their other kits at that time were 1/32. I have to wonder just what this gun was all about. I think the Renwal kit has been re-issued. As for its purpose, IIRC the gun itself was a 1944 design that was tweaked and modified after the war to be used for Atomic projectiles. It was only shot once in this capacity and had a very short (I think 2 or three year) service life before it was pulled for better options, namely the Honest John rocket system. |
| hocklermp5 | 08 Jan 2015 3:49 a.m. PST |
Thank you Tom for clearing that up. I recently bought a Renwal reissue of a US 1/32 truck with a crane on the back. The Renwal kits were really decent models for the 1950s and hold up well today. According to the Wiki link provide by Lion In The Stars the guns were indeed obsolete in 2 or 3 years but kept in service until 1963! Something to awe the citizenry with I suppose. That and they built 20 of them for $900 USDK each in 1950 dollars. |
| PHGamer | 08 Jan 2015 7:42 a.m. PST |
I don't know about the US, but when they got that big, the Germans counted only 1 or 2 to a battalion. The bigger guns required more support staff. The very large ones, like Karl at 420?mm was 1 to a battalion. |
| jowady | 08 Jan 2015 1:33 p.m. PST |
Revell has re-issued a number of the classic "Renwall" kits as collectibles. link |
 Doms Decals  | 08 Jan 2015 2:02 p.m. PST |
From a quick Google it seems like 6 battalions got them, with 3 tubes to a battalion – each gun being counted as a full battery. The section on the 59th FA battalion gives good detail: link "Three 280 M.M. cannons, named "Cool Cat," "Bugs Bunny," and "Sad Sack" were the pride of the 59th. One cannon belonged to each Battery: "A," "B" and "C." Also, there were Headquarters and Service Battery, Medical Detachment and Aviation Spotter Unit. " Intriguingly the 264th has a line-up photo of *6* guns, not just three – obviously there weren't enough of them to support 6 battalions of 6, so I don't know how that worked, but it looks like they had two guns per battery at some point. Even found a TO&E that confirms that:
Caption: "All the Big Guns – COMANCHE, BIG MO, BIG IKE, APACHE, ALLEY OOP and CHERYL (the name of the BN CO's daughter)" |
looks at a multi-period building.
