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Thursday 18 November 2021

SCRATCH BUILD FINISHED : USMC 37mm Anti-Tank Gun/ JAPANESE Type 41 75mm Mountain Gun / Type 1 47mm Anti-Tank gun/ Type 98 20mm AA gun

Here are the completed scratch built guns for the Japanese and US Marines, based on thin metal sheet, textured the base with Milliput, painted, flocked and the gunners glued in place on their respective guns. 

I also put together a full crew with a Junior Leader for the US Marine anti tank gun, while I only put together 7 crew members and 2 Junior Leaders for the Japanese, as I can utilise guns crews from my other Japanese crews I have already put together.

Japanese 47mm Anti tank gun lies in wait for the enemy 

Completed guns with the gunners in glued in place.
US Marines waiting to be painted, most of them have  some conversion done on  them.
These figures have magnets on the bottom to secure them to the base of the gun. 
Junior Leader with binoculars.
The scratch built before  
37mm Anti Tank Gun
The gun is fully manned by the crew and a Junior Leader.
3 of the crew have magnets on the bottom which secure the figures to the base of the gun.
As casualties occur they can be easily removed 

Lone gunner is the remaining figure  manning the gun, once he becomes a casualty the gun is removed from the gaming table.

The Japanese crew, the 2 on the left are Junior Leaders.
A bit of conversion work was done to transform the Japanese into gun crews.
Crew painted
Type 98 20mm AA gun
I only made one  specific crew member apart from the gunner for this gun.
Type 41 75mm Mountain Gun
Type 1 47mm Anti tank gun 

Cheers John

15 comments:

  1. Stunning work once again John! The painting is great and I love to see the scratch building stuff too:). Keep up the good work.

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    1. Thanks Steve for your comments and encouragement.
      cheers John

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  2. Excellent work as always John! :)

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  3. Gorgeous stuff as usual, John! But can they fight!!?? When are you going to blood them?
    Dick Bryant

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    1. Thanks Dick for your comments, now that we are out of Lockdown hope to start gaming again, hopefully the promised Pacific supplement will be out soon by TFL.
      cheers john

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  4. Fan from France : Magnifique !
    As usual, very very inspiring

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    1. Thank You VormitGrot for your comments
      cheers JOhn

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  5. Your work is just awe inspiring. The details like the rust and deterioration on the wheels of the Type 41- just magnificent.

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    1. Thank you John for your comments
      cheers John.

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  6. Tremendous work. I also really liked the cork with magnets on it for painting. Very clever, and extremely useful for crew figures.

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  7. Thanks Lasgunpacker for you comments
    cheers John

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  8. I hope these japs are nowhere near Tarawa! I don't fancy taking those guys on..lol nice job...love the scatch builds

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    1. Thanks Glasgow Warhog for your comments.
      cheers John

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