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Russian artillery?
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Posted: Saturday, April 05, 2008 - 03:10 PM UTC
Who makes good plastic kits of Russian WWII era artillery pieces?

Thanks,
Ricky
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Posted: Saturday, April 05, 2008 - 03:20 PM UTC
Miniart has produced a nice 76.2mm regimental gun. It was used as an AT gun. Italeri had a 122mm gun or howitzer too. I think there's a 45mm AT gun too by someone.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone takes on the 203mm B-4 Howitzer (the one on tracks seen in the Battle of Berlin). It fought throughout the war and is an impressive subject. Previous kitted in resin only a few times.
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Posted: Saturday, April 05, 2008 - 04:35 PM UTC
I think Mini-arm has/had a 100mm BS-3 gun out at one time.OOP I think,but it shows on e-Bay from time to time.
Italeri and Zvezda share a howitzer mold and pop those now and then.
Rick
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Posted: Saturday, April 05, 2008 - 05:41 PM UTC
rick purdy: I forgot about the 100mm AT gun. It's by ICM by the way.n Zvesda or someone made a very poor 76.2 mm gun
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Posted: Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 03:19 AM UTC

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Who makes good plastic kits of Russian WWII era artillery pieces?

Thanks,
Ricky


The nicest artillery kit in 1/35th scale right now is the new 76 mm gun from Miniart. Italeri offered the same subject 30 years ago (sometimes reboxed by Zvezda), but the new kit is far nicer. Miniart also just offered the self propelled variant, the SU-76M. Italeri/Zvezda offer the 122 mm howitzer, and ICM offered the 45 mm antitank gun (with a choice of barrels and wheels), the little 76 mm regimental gun and the 100 mm antitank gun (separately or with the Ural truck and some figures). Alanger has many of the old ICM molds now, so some of these may reappear in their boxes.
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Posted: Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 06:23 AM UTC
Does anyone make a D-48 85mm gun? I know it's not WW2 but i would love to build one of those.
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Posted: Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 07:09 AM UTC
Maquette does/did a D-1 152mm Artillery Piece, in plastic with resin details.

Italeri/Zvezda have also done a 120mm Soviet Mortar.
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Posted: Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 08:28 AM UTC
Thanks for the help, folks!

That Maquette kit of the 152mm looks interesting. I can't find any reviews of it - has anyone here built it?

Thanks again,
Ricky
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Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 09:51 PM UTC
Azimut have both an 85mm flak/pak and the 152mm howitzer in resin. Very nice kits, albeit pricey (around $90 each.)

Miniart have a new 76mm and also a new 57mm pak. Both very nice and a huge improvement over the old kits.

ICM have the 100-mm BS-3 (nice kit, but the barrel is atrocious, replace it with a metal one, it's the same used on the SU-100), the 45mm pak (it includes both short and long barrel and both early- and late-war wheels) and the 76mm infantry short howitzer.

As someone has already mentioned, a 122mm howitzer is sold by both Zvezda and Italeri (it's the same identical kit.)

There are two kits for the 203mm B4 tracked monster, one in resin (can't remember the maker now) and one in white metal (from Pit-Road.) Both are very expensive (well over $150) and hard to find. From time to time you can see one offered on EBay, usually selling for a ludicrously high price.
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Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 09:53 PM UTC

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That Maquette kit of the 152mm looks interesting.



It's actually a piece of junk.
If you can afford the Azimut resin kit (about $90), go for it. Much, much better.
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