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Sunday 3 October 2021

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

Its a long weekend here in OZ, the same long weekend the CoC MOAB event should have been  on  but cancelled and still living with restrictions. I tried to make the most of it and  scratch built a USMC 37mm Anti-tank gun, Japanese 75mm Mountain Gun, 47mm Anti-tank gun and a 20mm AA gun. My initial plan was to build the Mountain gun but once I was in the swing of things I kept going and built  the rest. 

Plastic sprues, figure bases, styrene sheets, paper clips and viewing a large number of images on the web together with a bit of "guess-a-rama" were utilized in the construction of the scratch builds.  

I have also started putting together both Japanese and US Marines plastic figures to man the guns.

JAPANESE TYPE 98 20mm AA GUN 

Start of the AA gun
The AA gun with wheels attached
I later decided to do away with the wheels.

JAPANESE TYPE 41 75mm MOUNTAIN GUN


US MARINE CORP 37mm ANTI-TANK GUN

JAPANESE TYPE 1 47mm ANTI-TANK GUN 

Cheers John