40L56 Anti Aircraft Gun
Basically your bog standard 40mm Bofors AA gun in US service.
These guns were used to equip the US Anti Aircraft Auto Weapon (mobile) battalions. such battalions unlike their armoured counter parts were used in semi static roles, deployed to protect vital bridges and instalations, HQs and field artillery batteries, etc.
The gun is another gift from Bill Krieg, a 3D print, it did require a little tinkering and the extended crucifix arms actually came from a Zvezda Russian 37mm AA carriage out of the spares box.
The two seated gunners are an SHQ Jeep passenger and an Esci hard plastic driver. The rest of the crew are two modified Esci soft plastic US infantrymen and a Hat Industrie tank rider, the 40mm shells are resin from Milicast
Nice one, Richard! I've said it before, you *do* get some crackin' item's either gifted or found on bring-&-buy stalls. 👍
ReplyDeleteBill Krieg was very generous sending me all sorts of bits which didn`t fit into projects he was actively doing and i try to find uses for them :) It would be churlish not to :)
DeleteName dropping again! Only you could get FIVE makes of parts plus original sixth 3D print job into one lovely model !! Well done. Carl
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