I see that Tamiya has the 88 in both Africa Corps and Europe colors, is there a difference other than the figures???
I am thinking of trying to do an 88 set up from Band of brothers
I believe none except figures added and maybe decals and such.
I don’t recall any encounter with an 8.8cm Flak in the “Band of Brothers” mini-series.
Do you mean the attack by E Coy at Brecourt Manor shortly after D-Day? That was a battery of 10.5cm leFH18Ms (available from AFV Club). BIG difference.
Indeed there was a scene with the 88, in the episode after Bastogne, in the battle for Foy, one was deployed in a direct fire configuration.
[#ditto] When Captain Spears runs inside the village to link up with another cie., he passed beside the whole 88 crew.
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yeah that would be the one
just popped in the #2 disk, Easy company is sent to take out some 88s shelling Omaha beach. When they return Captin Winters says they were 10.5s
that was why I thought they were 88s[;)]
Yep, if Lt. Spears actually did that as depicted, he’s one crazy sob.
So often, German artillery (indirect or high-velocity) was cited as from “88s”. The vast majority of German AT weapons were 7.5cm caliber and there were no dedicated 8.8cm caliber field artillery pieces (most common was the 10.5cm leFH18 or the 15cm sFH18).
Like I said before, if you want to depict this, use the AFV Club 10.5cm leFH18M model (kit #35089). Photos of several batteries near the D-Day beachead show this type of variant and not others. I know of no photos of the Brecourt Manor battery itself.
That’s true, and it can actually be really well depicted by using that new Dragon flak 36 kit with figures. They are all already winterized.
Speaking of the Brecourt Manor part, there is one interesting thing I would just like to add. In the first Call of Duty game, they put 88s models in that battery in the brecourt manor chapter. It actually confused me since in the tv series they did say that it’s shelling the beach, and I didn’t think that’s one of the primary functions of the flak 36. A little further search shows Roy had said.
So in a nutshell, you can do the Bretoncourt manor scene using the AFV Club 10.5 cm howitzer, or the Foy scene using Tamiya’s or Dragon’s 8.8cm guns. In both cases, Dragon makes sets of German artillerymen in the appropriate uniform- a winter garbed set for the 88, or the new set for their 15cm howitzer in summer uniforms.
the DVD never really gives a good overall shot of the gun emplacemnts, but I will be doing the 10.5 with summer uniforms. the main thing will be having the gun below ground {slightly} with wicker basket trenches and camo netting.
I guess I could go for three guns and interconnecting trenches in 1/72 [;)]
This might help you out, it’s a popular scenario for war-gamers.
http://napnuts.blogspot.com/2006/03/band-of-brothers-brecourt-manor.html