Hi all... well I've decided to take the plunge and am busily assembling and painting a modern German and Russian/PACT army to use with FFT3.
I bought some German Gepard SPAAGs, but thought the guns looked just to fragile for frequent handling, so I decided to do a bit of a mod/conversion.
I cut off then drilled out the model to accept a much stiffer 'barrel' from a paperclip. I also used the radar from a German Roland SAM to use instead of the more fragile one from the Gepard package.
I then fabricated some muzzle breaks for the end of the barrels, and a mount for the radar.
What do you guys think?
Sorry for the crappy cell-phone pics.
Still going to work on better shaping the muzzle breaks I think.
WargameHub wrote:Very nice. I think once mine have bent I will probably give this a try.
I've always been very partial to the Gepard (got to play around in one for a bit while in Germany) and in particular it's method of firing.
Its weird, I too am very partial to the Gepard. I normally don't get worked up about AAA, but there's just something about it that's so COOL. On YouTube there's video of an upgraded version with SAMs which looks very much like the love-child of a Gepard and a Tunguska. Maybe I'll try converting that version sometime in the future... its so hard with this scale, and the inherent detail GHQ packs onto their miniatures.
That's a first class fix. Looks great. How anyone can drill holes in this scale beats me.
Should last a life time and as good as new.
After seeing Allens Patriot battery I was trying to revamp some AA today.
An hour or so of gluing small parts to my fingers, table, tools and everything else bar the vehicle, I frankly gave up!
Plan B, I just to use what GHQ had made with a turret swop.
This is what I wanted. (XA-180 with Crotale NG)
This is what I ended up with.
I know my limits, this will do for today.
WargameHub wrote:Very nice. I think once mine have bent I will probably give this a try.
I've always been very partial to the Gepard (got to play around in one for a bit while in Germany) and in particular it's method of firing.
Its weird, I too am very partial to the Gepard. I normally don't get worked up about AAA, but there's just something about it that's so COOL. On YouTube there's video of an upgraded version with SAMs which looks very much like the love-child of a Gepard and a Tunguska. Maybe I'll try converting that version sometime in the future... its so hard with this scale, and the inherent detail GHQ packs onto their miniatures.
I'm the opposite. I was Bradley/Stinger so have always been partial to any air defense forces.
Just out of curiosity, how was the Bradley/Stinger combo?
I loved the 25mm Bushmaster, great weapon system, wasn't too happy with the M240C coax...
When was the Bradley/Stinger combo in use? (I ETS'd in 88 and I never saw one).
Frank
Why, in my day, we didn't have counters. We had to paint the unit values onto little rocks. maps?! Hah! We had no paper maps! We put our rocks in the dirt. It sucked when it rained, but we soldiered on!!! Don't get me started on dice...
When I came in to Patriot in 2007 they had phased out the M2 Linebacker (Bradley with Stingers) and had one of the students in my AIT was a reclass from 14M to 14T. Still not sure of the reasoning behind getting rid of an armored SHORAD unit that can roll with armor units and relying totally on the Avenger instead, and they're constantly trying to get rid of 14S (the guys that run the Avengers and Stingers.)
We had a Bradley with a rack of Stinger missiles in the back. Crew was 5: TC, Gunner, Driver, Stinger Team Leader, Stinger Gunner. Or at least that's what we were supposed to have as usually we were short the Stinger Gunner so the TL was on his own.
To this day if you start yelling "red air, red air, red air" I will be up and moving before I'm awake.
From my understanding the reason to get rid of SHORAD was the same as most other stupid things the military does. It wasn't relative to the current war and they assume the Air Force will always rule the skies.
