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Trumpeter Soviet B-4 203mm howitzer announced
05Sultan
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Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 10:50 AM UTC

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This is the second announcement in a week when I discussed the subject with a manufacturer at Nuremberg.

Great thing is (with the 203mm), naturally enough, the manufacturer who was seriously considering doing it WASN'T Trumpeter...

Do I have some kind of strange power?

You do seem to be on a roll, o'goggled-avatar-one. For the hat trick,what was the third kit subject you discussed at Nuremburg and the SECOND manufacturer you discussed it with?
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Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 01:39 PM UTC
This is interesting to say the least, but, what happened to the other news that TRUMPETER was releasing the MODERN ITALIAN CAR, cant remember the name of it. But I have looked for more news on it and nothing.

Anybody hear anything on it ?
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Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 01:52 PM UTC
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/news/3788

Just been sent the first images...
mj
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Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 04:01 PM UTC
Just awesome news. I can't wait to get my hands on a few of these


Cheers,
Mike
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Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 08:43 PM UTC
It's a beautiful thing, and as it was apparently in use all the way from the Finnish front to Berlin in 1945, there's no end to what you could do with one.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 09:20 PM UTC

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IIRC several were captured by the Germans and were sent to France where they were captured by British/US forces?



US forces - IIRC there's a photo of a GI looking up the barrel of one sometime around the time of the Bulge (and it's likely that's where the APG one was acquired).

David

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Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 10:27 PM UTC
I can't believe that Trumpeter WON'T announce a tractor for it...

Announcement in the next week or so?
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Posted: Thursday, May 01, 2008 - 12:32 AM UTC

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I'm not really much of an artillery man - is this the big gun that appears in an oft-seen piece of contemporary combat footage filmed in the 1945 Battle of Berlin?

If so, it'd be a must-have for the stash.

- Steve


They appear a couple of times in this film, together with a wide range of other Soviet artillery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJinOjAu1vk

David
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