We continue to meet, every other Wednesday at the Roswell Starbuck's at 1309 North Main Street at 1900hrs if you are interested--the next meeting is 02-14-13...feel free to join us for coffee and military modeling talk.
I've changed my modeling philosophy--and decided to go big---buy a few kits, each of which may take several months in the construction process--I'll take my time in their construction, and will always have something going on. First I purchased the smaller of my two most recently acquired models.
The Karl Gerat Mortar. This tracked siege mortar fired a 24" shell 6 miles. It was originally devised for attacking the French border forts. However the blitzkrieg happened and the 6 morsers produced were used on the Russian Front. This model is approx. 21 inches long when completed and I purchased it's accompanying Munition Schlepper based on a panzer MK III chassis. This track mortar is the baby of the recent purchases.
My Second purchase (and the kit i will start first) is the German K5 Railway gun known as Leopold to the Germans and to the American's it was known as Anzio Annie.
The K5 railway gun was also designed to attack the French Border fortifications as with the Karl Mortar other uses for it--such as shelling England from France (!!!) were found. This rifled cannon fired a 16 inch shell over 11 miles.
This model when completed will be 37 inches long--and i will have support rail cars and a diesel locomotive on display with it...
Like I say go big or don't go..............and I will supply pictures of the build here on our club blog.
Come join us for coffee and make jokes on my new giant modeling projects---
That's where the real fun is.................
