"Schneider 105 mm gun, Model 25/27" Topic

Somewhat obscure piece of artillery here, so obscure I don't think anybody makes a model of it in 28 mm. I would like to make one for my use, and I'm looking for a good source of information on Schneider and their guns.

Here is my thinking: Sometimes guns like this are derivatives of a more common weapon or related to something else. In this case, Schneider made several 105 mm guns. Most had a single trail, but this one had a split trail. Possibly the tube and recoil system were used on a different 105 mm with a single trail, and "all" I would need to do is purchase the barrel and recoil system and match it up with a split trail carriage, perhaps like those used on the Schneider licensed Japanese guns.

So, can anyone recommend any sources of information on interwar Schneider guns?

Sadly, Peter Chamberlain and Terry Gander's Light and Medium artillery of World War II doesn't provide much detail.

Grelber

Somewhat obscure piece of artillery here, so obscure I don't think anybody makes a model of it in 28 mm. I would like to make one for my use, and I'm looking for a good source of information on Schneider and their guns.

Here is my thinking: Sometimes guns like this are derivatives of a more common weapon or related to something else. In this case, Schneider made several 105 mm guns. Most had a single trail, but this one had a split trail. Possibly the tube and recoil system were used on a different 105 mm with a single trail, and "all" I would need to do is purchase the barrel and recoil system and match it up with a split trail carriage, perhaps like those used on the Schneider licensed Japanese guns.

So, can anyone recommend any sources of information on interwar Schneider guns?

Sadly, Peter Chamberlain and Terry Gander's Light and Medium artillery of World War II doesn't provide much detail.

Grelber

Most of those guns were sold to Greece supposedly, here is an actual photo of the gun limbered.

Here is a link to where the photo is hosted.
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This is a French schneider of just slightly older origin and I
would be willing to guess this is the type of split trail the piece you are interested in had or so close as to not really matter. This one is in Wisconsin of all places.
link

Weird. I responded to this a couple days ago, but it doesn't seem to have taken. Hmmm . . .

Anyway, thank you very much for the photos and links, Bashytubits! I've been looking through the first website, hoping to find somebody else using something similar to the Greek guns, or something that uses the same carriage, to which I could add a barrel and recoil system. No luck so far, but still looking.

Thanks again!

Grelber