"Peter Pig's new Maxim Quad AA guns for Stalingrad" Topic
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| Abwehrschlacht | 14 Mar 2015 9:52 a.m. PST |
Another addition to my Stalingrad Soviets was the new Peter Pig Quad Maxim AA MMGs, please take a look on my blog: link Getting closer! Thanks for reading!
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bracken  | 14 Mar 2015 12:00 p.m. PST |
Very nice, the soviets always did seem to have some really cool weapons and that's one of them! |
| Abwehrschlacht | 14 Mar 2015 12:37 p.m. PST |
Cheers Russ, yeah, I have been looking forward to painting this bad boy for quite some time. The Peter Pig sculpt is a lovely set. |
| Rrobbyrobot | 14 Mar 2015 12:45 p.m. PST |
Nice figures. Very well painted as well. I like Peter Pig miniatures a lot. Although my 15mm quad maxims are from Battle Front. I've had them for over a decade. They work both as ground mounted weapons and as those mounted on Gaz trucks. You're Soviet force is quite impressive. Thanks for sharing. |
| Abwehrschlacht | 14 Mar 2015 12:57 p.m. PST |
Thanks rrobby! Yeah, I've always liked PPs figures, I have some from over twenty years ago that still look great. Their range and price are really attractive as well. I have seen photos of the Quad mounted on a Gaz truck, but this was not mentioned in the lists I am using, so ground mounted it is! |
| Mark 1 | 15 Mar 2015 6:41 p.m. PST |
I love the quad-Maxim AA mount. If you run Soviets, particularly early WW2 Soviets, you really do need to have some!
I have modeled mine in the more common set-up of a protected AA gun pit. Any place where the ground-mount was set-up, it was expected to be dug-in within about 2 hours. (This was the standard for infantry and artillery formations to be fully entrenched, IIRC.) And since it was quite a beast to move, I expect most of the times it was set up it was in place for more than 2 hours!
Of course mine are at a much smaller scale (1/285th, or 6mm if you prefer). As a point of reference for the size of the figures -- they are mounted on a U.S. penny as the base. -Mark
(aka: Mk 1) |
| Abwehrschlacht | 16 Mar 2015 12:29 p.m. PST |
That's fantastic Mark1, your skills are great and you have given me a great idea… I just need some Green stuff and I will make a little nest for the guns! |
| Mark 1 | 16 Mar 2015 7:24 p.m. PST |
Abwehrschlacht -- if you are interested, I have found Mexican Clay to be far easier to work with than Green Stuff or plasticene modelling putties for the purpose of making sandbags. I decided to put up a quick how-to of my approach in the Microscale forum here:
TMP link I expect my approach would work just as well for other scales. Hope that helps. -Mark
(aka: Mk 1) |
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