Hi Leon,
Big thank you for taking these excellent pics of the 25pdr and the limber.
Such good closeup details shots, should be very useful when coming to building Armortek 25pdr field gun in adding more upgraded parts in the near future.
Cheers
Ian
from Glasgow, Scotland
Re: Walk arounds
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:33 pm
by Marcus Kwa
I just visited the 'Nederlands Artillerie Museum' or the Dutch Artillery Museum and took some detail shots of the 25 pounders in their collection. They have an excellent collection, really worth a visit! They have the ‘standard’ MKII carriage gun and a hinge tail MKIII carriage gun in the main exhibition halls.
Both photographed guns have the welded gun cradle (no rivets on the slide sides) and the riveted cradle supports.
For the really adventurous converters under us I have included pics of the MKIII carriage with the hinged tail (the museum has 5 examples in their collection).
I've started work on the curved angle round the back of the trail and will probably cast these. Not sure yet wheter in resin or metal.
Best regards
Dave
Re: Walk arounds
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 7:31 pm
by Marcus Kwa
You're welcome!
Had a great afternoon between al those guns!
I am now a bit in dubio regarding the brake drums. I noticed the wheel axles have a distinct taper (131mm OD at the frame and 113mm OD just in front of the brake collar). Whether it is worth having the axles machined (and redo brakedrums) or leave it as it is......
Marcus
Re: Walk arounds
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:32 pm
by Dave Dibb (Armorpax)
Hi Marcus,
Difficult call
I have no real engineering kit so apart from the odd tweak that I can do with the Dremel I will be using the kit parts as is. I am going to add as many little extra details as I can and accept the few softer detail areas of the kit I cannot change.
Best regards
Dave
Re: Walk arounds
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:21 pm
by Carl Puckett
Not quite on the 'walk around' discussion...
But does anyone know of or can point me in the direction of any scale plans for the 25 pdr?
There's got to be some somewhere?
Re: Walk arounds
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:33 pm
by John Wiggins
Hi
This is a photo of my father in law (top left, behind shield), in 1941, based on Iceland.
Does anyone know the length of the 25pdr barrel without the muzzle break?
Regards
John
Iceland 1941
Re: Walk arounds
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 8:52 am
by Marcus Kwa
Gents,
I have added some photographs of the panoramic (dial) sight to my photostream.
Enjoy!!
Cheers,
Marcus
Re: Walk arounds
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 3:46 pm
by Leon Benjamins
Great pics, thank you!
Re: Walk arounds
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:21 pm
by Marcus Kwa
Hi Leon,
If you have some time to spare I can recommend a visit to the 'Nederlandse Artillerie Museum' at 't Harde. They have a standard and short wheel base 25pdr in their collection. Both are in excellent condition! Outside there are also some shortbase 25pdr's though not complete are very useful to clamber on and under. Ammunition boxes and shells are displayed together with a cut-away display model of the slide with its hydraulic recoil buffers.
The sight assembly is also presented as a separate exhibit, clearly intended for instruction purposes, ideal to check the various components and their function.
Cheers,
Marcus
Re: Walk arounds
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 3:48 pm
by Leon Benjamins
'T Harde is 50km from me, i've been there many times
This summer I will be attending in my full ww2 panzer uniform at Wings & Wheels in Belgium, most of the time these 25 pounders will be there also:
At 2:10 ish
