Carsenault
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Here's my first entry for the SMA 2013 Big Spring Contest, entering this in the Armor category. This is the Trumpeter 1/35 Geschützwagen Tiger für 17cm Kanone. Its a late WW2 motorized gun carriage capable of carrying the big K72 170mm long range cannon. It could fire a 68kg shell a distance of over 25 kilometres (about 15 miles). Fortunately for the Allies, the Geschutwagen never saw combat, the nearly complete prototype was captured by British soldiers just before VE day. They used the King Tiger drivetrain, suspension, wheels and tracks, but on an elongated chassis. The 170mm cannon could be removed from the carriage and left in place on the battlefield.
Here's a pic looking into the gun bay of the captured chassis at the end of WW2...
Here's a pic looking into the gun bay of the captured chassis at the end of WW2...