Here’s the second round of voting for what I’ll build next, this time between two 1/35 scale Trumpeter Waffentragers:
Please check them out quickly online and leave a vote. Thanks!
12.8cm Waffentrager: 3
Krupp-Steyr Waffentrager: 0
Well, I think the 12.8 is cooler looking. Do I need a ‘real’ reason though?
No, I’ve already gone through the “real” reasons, primarily wherever or not the Waffentragers in question have a Friul counterpart. Just go on the aesthetic qualities.
12.8cm Waffentrager:
Just to run this by you really fast, the PaK 44 wouldn’t count for an artillery GB, would it?
12.8.
No sorry, anti tank gun.
What’s a Waffletiger??
Darn it, are there no AT GBs?
I’m going to have to go with the 12.8 too.
I admit, I had to google it to see what it was. Curse you Moff, now I have to buy another model for the stash! [:D]
Certain people think that “Waffen” sounds like “waffle”. Hence “Waffle Maker”, “Waffle Tractor”, and so on (I don’t get “Waffle Tiger”, though, since the Waffentrager was not based off the Tiger. However, you’ll notice that no one jokes about the Waffen SS.[:S]
Apparently I’m good at doing that. [6]
Soory about that. Had all of my upper teeth removed this morning and I was a little loopy earlier.
So these are based on the 85(t) chassis? This sounds intriguing.
Ouch, sorry about your teeth.
Like I said before, they are based off the 38t, but some have too many wheels. The wheels look like 38t wheels, but there are too many (twelve wheels on the 12.8 PaK 44 Waffentrager as opposed to eight wheels on the Pzkpfw. 38t). I don’t know if that would be considered the same chassis or what.
Again, sorry. [85(t) ???] Trying to keep my thoughts straight.
So which models should I be looking up to see what this thing looks like? Excuse my fuzziness. lol
I assume the Krupp Steyr has an 88mm?
And the 12.8 of course has the 12.8cm monster gun…
I have to wonder how well that worked. I read about an attempt to mount a 90mm gun on an M18 Hellcat. They had to put the tank destroyer in neutral to fire the gun and the whole vehicle rolled backward over a yard/metre with the recoil.
PS: Ouch Mike, hope you feel better. I had one front tooth knocked out by an airbag when I was in an accident about a year ago- not fun at all.
That is quite a gun for such a small chasses.
Mike,
I’ve had 2 teeth pulled, 1 at a time. I can’t imagine what you’re going through. You have my sympathy sir.
Mike, it translates as Weapons carrier. Essentially, the bare basics of a vehilce with a gun, usually an existing AT gun, stuck on top.
38(t) refers to a Czech tank that the Germans took into service.
38(t) was the German designation, the (t) reffering to its country of origin, in German of course.
I assume it is an 8.8, if you compare it with the Tiger it looks like the same gun. And as far as recoil goes, wouldn’t that be what the artillery-style ground clamps/legs are for?
No sweat, I’ve made way bigger typos than that [:)] Keep on posting, and I hope your teeth are ok.