It`s a THING!!!

[The Smythe Meister]

I have to agree with Steve - the barrel assembly is not for the faint hearted - I made a real pig's ear of it & thr 'thing' became landfill!
Dave

Hi Dave,
I`ll get around the Barrel alignment.... look on!!
The landfill sites in the South West must be awash with various bits of these kits!!:tears-of-joy:
Andy

[The Smythe Meister]

Perhaps they should have named it after General John Sedgwick? Apart from that, have fun with it Andy. It’s certainly a weird beast, like a tracked medieval organ gun.

Cheers Tim:smiling:!
I will..... and weird it certainly is!!
Andy

[The Smythe Meister]

I haven’t built this kit, but I’m thinking that if it’s difficult to line them up, maybe it would be a good idea to make a template from plastic card with some holes drilled in the right places, so that it fits between the barrels and keeps them in alignment while the glue dries?

Nice one Jakko,an excellent solution there:thumb2:,
However,as you will soon see.... i will not be needing to make any aids for this one mate!
Andy

[The Smythe Meister]

Look him up Steve……he suits this little beast quite well…..

Must admit,i`ve never heard of this Chap!:rolling:
I`ll look him up..... he may turn out be a long lost Relative!!:tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:
Andy

[The Smythe Meister]

It was the comment in an article about their testing I read that made me giggle.....

....something along the lines of when all six barrels were fired at once there was significant damage to buildings and especially cars behind it due to the back blast.... :surprised: :anguished:

HA!! Nice one Andrew:thumb2:
Andy

[The Smythe Meister]

OK then....
The Build has started,but just the prelim,boring lower hull stuff.... so no point in posting pics yet!
HOWEVER,as the thread has had much mention of the nightmare task that is .... the Barrel alignment :dizzy: ...... I thought i`d show how i have worked out the perfect solution to getting that,particularly thorny,problem ........

TADA !!.... Problem solved!!:tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:
I wanna try and replicate this as being wrecked by a RPG strike.... It`s quite hard to get ref pics for these "THINGS" that are knocked out,due to the small amount produced,so this will be the only source.... with some poetic licence added by yours truly!!:flushed: (I`ve only ever done one Destroyed AFV before,it turned out OK in the end... but boy,was it taxing!!:astonished
Should be fun mind!!
Thanks for all of your thoughts and comments,
Cheers for now,
Andy

[minitnkr]

At first glance thought it was your result:surprised:.

[Airborne01]

OK then....
The Build has started,but just the prelim,boring lower hull stuff.... so no point in posting pics yet!
HOWEVER,as the thread has had much mention of the nightmare task that is .... the Barrel alignment :dizzy: ...... I thought i`d show how i have worked out the perfect solution to getting that,particularly thorny,problem ........
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TADA !!.... Problem solved!!:tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:
I wanna try and replicate this as being wrecked by a RPG strike.... It`s quite hard to get ref pics for these "THINGS" that are knocked out,due to the small amount produced,so this will be the only source.... with some poetic licence added by yours truly!!:flushed: (I`ve only ever done one Destroyed AFV before,it turned out OK in the end... but boy,was it taxing!!:astonished
Should be fun mind!!
Thanks for all of your thoughts and comments,
Cheers for now,
Andy

OOh, that was a bit sneaky, underhand, and positively brilliant mate! :smiling5:

[Dave Ward]

Another minor problem with the Ontos, was that reloading the 6 barrels was done from outside the vehicle - a crew member had to dismount, & physically remove the spent cases & reload with fresh rounds - and the 106mm recoilless rifle rounds are larger than a 105mm howitzer round.................... This would mean the vehicle retiring & finding a safe place to reload, not something that would be easy to do in action

Dave

[adt70hk]

OOh, that was a bit sneaky, underhand, and positively brilliant mate! :smiling5:

What he said!!!

[adt70hk]

Another minor problem with the Ontos, was that reloading the 6 barrels was done from outside the vehicle - a crew member had to dismount, & physically remove the spent cases & reload with fresh rounds - and the 106mm recoilless rifle rounds are larger than a 105mm howitzer round.................... This would mean the vehicle retiring & finding a safe place to reload, not something that would be easy to do in action
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Dave

I must admit when I read that I thought REALLY!!

[Airborne01]

It was the comment in an article about their testing I read that made me giggle.....

....something along the lines of when all six barrels were fired at once there was significant damage to buildings and especially cars behind it due to the back blast.... :surprised: :anguished:

Back in the day we fired Wombat, Mobat and Combat - all similar beasts, albeit single barrels - and I can attest to their ferocious backblast! Even the Carl Gustav and 66mm LAW can clear the leaves for quite some distance to the rear!! Definitely a filler of Y-fronts for the unitiated! :face-with-head-bandage:

[scottie3158]

Count me in. Looking forward to this.

[Guest]

thought i`d show how i have worked out the perfect solution to getting that,particularly thorny,problem ........
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TADA !!.... Problem solved!!:tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:

Shall I be a spoilsport and point out that the ones on the left side are still in their proper alignment?

Back in the day we fired Wombat, Mobat and Combat - all similar beasts, albeit single barrels - and I can attest to their ferocious backblast!

Wasn’t Mike C (Isitme) a WOMBAT crew member at some point? I think he mentioned that when he built a model of a Land Rover with one on here some time ago.

[Airborne01]

Shall I be a spoilsport and point out that the ones on the left side are still in their proper alignment? :smiling3:


Wasn’t Mike C (Isitme) a WOMBAT crew member at some point? I think he mentioned that when he built a model of a Land Rover with one on here some time ago.

Shall I be a spoilsport and point out that the ones on the left side are still in their proper alignment? :smiling3:


Wasn’t Mike C (Isitme) a WOMBAT crew member at some point? I think he mentioned that when he built a model of a Land Rover with one on here some time ago.

No idea Jakko - if he was he probably suffers from hearing loss as well!