Ok, which armor kit would you guys rather have?

Modeling Subjects Armor
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If a rich uncle died and left you a very small fortune, which would you rather have (each is 1/35th scale), if you could only afford one:

  1. 12.8cm Flakzwilling, mostly all-white metal kit, with flak tower, seventeen crewmen (yes, that’s SEVENTEEN crewmen), reference books for the Flakzwilling, OR

  2. the Accurate Armour US Army Oshkosh HET?

The Flakzwilling was the giant AAA mount that were in flak towers ringing Berlin, Hamburg and (I think) Vienna. It was two 128mm AA guns mounted side by side. There’s one at Aberdeen, mounted on a kind of giant dolly.

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#1

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id go for the Flak tower

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Number 1 hands down…

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I’d go for the AA Oshkosh HET any day.

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Could you specify a bit?
Are you talking about a single ZFlak + emplacement, or an actual Flakturm, with all four Flaks?
'Cause I can see one of the latter if I lean out the window…

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[:I] What is an Oshkosh?[:I]

I better have the Flak. I bought a bridge once without seeing it. There were all sorts of problems…

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Flak tower.

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Oshkosh Truck
Oshkosh Truck Corporation is the leading manufacturer of specialized military trucks. Major defense and international military products currently being produced at Oshkosh Truck include the M1070 Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET), the Palletized Load System (PLS), various models of the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks (HEMTT), and the U.S. Marine Corps Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR).

Oshkosh rolls on - heavy-duty trucks, done right

…of course there is also…

Oshkosh, WI
EAA AirVenture fly-in held in Oshkosh, WI
OshKosh B’Gosh

…the flak tower does sound pretty cool tho’. [;)]

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Gosh david, that is alot of Oshkosh goss. Thanks! I shall be ignorant no longer.

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i’d rather hav the het

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Howdy Larry,

This one’s easy, since I already own the AA Super HET…:wink:

I choose…the Flak tower!

Tread.

Now WHAT’S this A_Marx about you leanin’ out your window and seeing a Flak Tower!!!..do you live near Humbolthain Park or something??

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I don’t see any armor am I missing something? But I would pick the flak tower I like lots a figures.

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I would go for the HET. Mainly because I hate figures and I love big trucks.

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FlaK Tower, without a doubt. If its the Peddinghaus kit, snap it up, but there are some small problems with it, nothing that an experienced modeler can’t fix. Besides, anything made by a major(read: injection molded) manufacturer will be around in greater quantities for a longer time than other, more limited manufacture. Besides, the Peddinghaus kit is kickass; if you think the Leopold is big, just the gun/turntable assembly is massive. Put that puppy on a tower and POOF you’re sleeping on the couch(I speak from personal experience)but it’s worth it!

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I’m from Wisconsin, Oshkosh b’gosh!

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No Matt…as you have been OSHKOSHED already so you are no longer considered ignorant.[:D]

BTW: I’ll have the FLAK TOWER

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Close, but no cookie.
Augarten, Vienna.

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i’d go for the HET… is it a resin kit or injection-molded? i might build a diorama with it…

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Can you fill me in? It may influence my decision.

Thing is, the AA HET is also a limited resin kit. Then again, maybe Trumpeter will do it as a follow-up to the Faun. The Flakzwilling is a rarer bird. But OTOH, it’s German, so who knows …

Heh heh. How did you make the tower? I don’t know what the capital city flak towers looked like.