Tango01  | 08 Dec 2023 4:57 p.m. PST |
"Following the successful refurbishment of a pair of Lone Star diecast Carriers for Soviet service (Link) I dug out more. This one was acquired complete with the (so I'm told) very rare metal Para crew. The carrier needed a full repaint but for the crew I confined myself to repairing the existing paint – though I decided I couldn't live with the grey helmets. I also added length the the MG barrel with a piece of wooden cocktail stick. Going by the ammo belt this is intended to represent a Vickers gun. Decals and serial numbers finished it off."
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| Col Piron | 09 Dec 2023 3:55 a.m. PST |
I don't think the Soviets had any scout carriers , iirc they only got universal carriers . |
| Tango01 | 09 Dec 2023 3:19 p.m. PST |
Thanks… even that… a good Old School work…
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 deadhead | 09 Dec 2023 3:27 p.m. PST |
Was this not a Bren Gun Carrier? Freely confess I have no idea and thirty seconds on Google would tell me. But we need to keep the flow…..well, flowing I guess. I know I should stick to 1815 but heck… |
| Black Bull | 09 Dec 2023 3:55 p.m. PST |
It's a Bren the Scout had the fighting compartment on the drivers side |
| Tango01 | 09 Dec 2023 10:40 p.m. PST |
The Star in the side is white…not red… Armand |
| deadhead | 10 Dec 2023 2:50 a.m. PST |
Well it is no longer a Soviet vehicle. This is indeed a Carrier Bren No 2, but now in British Airborne hands |
| Col Piron | 10 Dec 2023 6:35 a.m. PST |
| 10 Dec 2023 12:31 p.m. PST |
It is very confusing, but most vehicles that looked liked this were called Universal Carriers. Much more armour plating but very thin if so. There was a well known earlier variant, the Bren Gun Carrier (confusingly the Universal could carry a Bren as well) which was much lighter and armoured on the left. The Scout variant was armoured on the right and carried a dirty great radio. All were not vehicles in which to go to war, but were competent tows. Not sure the USSR had any use for the AFV shown above in parade finish |
| Stoppage | 11 Dec 2023 4:58 a.m. PST |
They're Great! …glorious committed troops of the Guards Heavy Assault Gang use their Uralkompromatski-built "telezhki dlya ognemetov" [flame-thrower carts] to take the fight to the ideological enemy. |
| Tango01 | 11 Dec 2023 3:42 p.m. PST |
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