I’ve been working on a 1/35 scratchbuilt small flak trailer, modeled around a 1/24 M1919 I cut off of a half-track, so that would make the gun one of the larger Brownings used on ships, right? Anyway, I made a trailer frame and tripod from sprue, and cut the armor plating that goes in front of an AA gun out of cardstock, which I then covered with that “liquid plastic” filler cement and painted. The wheels are from my in-flight 1/48 Mirage 2000. Even though this might not be the most accurate model in the world, I’m going to add it to my West Germany diorama I plan to build soon.
It sounds like you are looking to build something like this:
The Maxim M55 Quad .50 cal AA Gun trailer.
Instead of cobbling together something that kind of looks like one, you can get a very nice, accurate one from Dragon for about $20.
The M1919 in 1/24 scale is going to look like what it is; an out of scale M1919. It is the only gun that looks like it does. The closest larger gun is the M2HB .50 cal and it is longer and bigger, but also looks different. The size of the breach and workings are about the same size in height, but its longer and wider with different hand grips, different barrel, etc.
oh, no no no. im building a trailer version of a ship-mounted AA gun, with a single emplacement and armor that has an oval opening in the middle.
Do you have a picture of what you are trying to build? Your description doesn’t sound like anything I can think of having been trailer mounted.
^^Ditto^^
if you look at a WWII-era Clemson-class destroyer, you’ll see the AA guns with beefed-up Browning’s with blast shields. Although they were never mounted on trailers, I’m currently building components of a “what-if” West German war diorama, so it doesn’t really matter.
Are you referring to the Oerlikon 20mm AA canon?
M2HB Browning
oh, ok. There are tons of M-2’s available out there, shouldn’t be a need to try to pass off a 1/24 M-1919 as an M-2.
Well, the gun’s gonna be in the background of my diorama, so there’s no need to add to the $180 budget I’m on, and that’s completely filled with diorama materials, an airbrush, and paints to airbrush my other dry-brushed kits…
Academy’s U.S. Machine Gun set has a couple of air-cooled .50 cals that would work perfectly, along with mounts, ammo cans, decals, and a bunch of other extras and only costs about $6 at Great Models.
I would spend a few extra bucks to get an actual weapon as opposed to a made-up one, but it is up to you.
I actually am getting that exact set! The scratchbuilt trailer was just a little side project of mine, because I’ve never scratch-built anything before.