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Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 09:45 AM UTC
For 6pdr fans there is another airborne version on the way, this time from AFV Club.

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Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 12:25 PM UTC

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For 6pdr fans there is another airborne version on the way, this time from AFV Club.

Link to Item

If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!



The more the merrier and having all three of the currently available new guns the AFV seems the easiest to assemble but looking at this one I feel they may not understand the subject all that well. I can't recall seeing spaced armour on the AB guns and the shield was reduced in height and width as was the carriage to fit the load criteria for gliders. I am very happy to be proved wrong here but this looks like their standard Mk IV with two new folding trails. The conversion was a little more than that.
Al
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Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 05:22 PM UTC
For some rason I could not edit my post so will add more info here. From looking online I can see where the problem may lay. The museum exhibit at Duxford is a standard Mk IV (late) 6 pdr which even has standard trails. THese photos of the real guns in period photos should give a really good indication:








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Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 06:59 PM UTC
Hi Al,

Agree, shorter wheel base and no double skin armour plate. The gun was in service until 1951, I don't know is the post war guns just became the standard gun with the demise of the glider and newer larger transport planes?

Al
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Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 08:14 PM UTC
Apparently some of the late guns had double skin armour like the museum one above but I have yet to see a pic of one in use, possibly these were post war models
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Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 10:07 PM UTC
Great, more the merrier....hopefully this is an easier build than the Bronco kit. Sorry but the the little 'tiny bits' are painfull, would prefer the breach block to be a one piece!!!!! Don't get me wrong.....thank you to the manufacturers bringing out these guns.
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Posted: Friday, April 18, 2014 - 08:10 AM UTC
The 80th Airborne Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion in Holland used the 6 pounder with the spaced shield.

Scroll down to the see two different photos, one on each site.
http://ww2history-militaria.vpweb.nl/Market-Garden-nijmegen-44.html

http://lpix.org/sslptest/?id=1133

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Grant
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