Takom has just released the first shots of their upcoming 12.8 cm Flak 40 in 1/35! This is sure to be a great kit for fans of WWII and especially fans of big guns! Takom has posted some great pics check them out here!

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Thanks!

Way cool. I wonder if the figure is included and what is he wearing?

I'll be looking to getting this- might discard the included base and try to build it fitted to a Maus or any other German super-heavy.

It looks like Takoms Modern Russian wearing chemical garb. Probably just here for scale.

I am definitely getting one.

Am I the only one thinking of the the words "Flakturm diorama" when seeing this release?

Now this is an unusual subject that I'd never thought would be released as a kit.

but where's the ammo?

That's make a brilliant flaktower dio. Obviously just the top as if you were to build the whole tower to scale you wouldn't be able to see it as it would be about 12 foot+ high and fill an entire room...lol

I don't do much artillery, but this one is just too good to pass up. And, no. The figure is not included.

Great looking model ,but would have preferred single mount for a ground level diorama ..........we could always chop it up


http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Last/img/USA-E-Last-p394.jpg

Here's what a shell looks like :



H.P.

The kit presumably will allow expansion to the single version and railroad mounting. Only 34 Zwilling ("twins") were built by the end of the war, and they were all apparently used in FlaK towers.

I'm hoping that if enough people buy the kit, they'll kit the single, and after market will respond with ammo and possibly other stuff.

If you scroll down you see at least two were used in the field/on the ground .

https://reibert.info/threads/flak-40-zwilling-12-8-cm-fotoobzor.301376/

Thanks for sharing that, my sources indicated the gun and mount were simply too heavy to be transported. Are you sure that's a German vehicle and not a Soviet hybrid?

Wonder what this would look like in the turret ring of an E-100?

https://reibert.info/threads/flak-40-zwilling-12-8-cm-fotoobzor.301376/
That's a trailer the guns are mounted on.
And I think this thing would look nifty on an E-100 hull. Useless, but nifty.

That's the twin set up that was at Aberdeen. I have always wondered about the stability of that trailer setup though. There are no apparent outriggers. The only thing I can think of is that, like the Karl morser, the wheels can be raised to set the platform on the ground.

and 35 years ago they were in much better condition. Here's a couple bad pictures from 1974:

Here's a german guy who built the old Peddinghaus 12.8 twin, but tried also to present that big gun on a Flak tower part:

http://www.panzer-bau.de/artillerie-1-35/12-8cm-flakzwilling/


Michael

The trailer is for transporting realy heavy equipment and it is German made ,there plenty of pics out there in german use
The US army mounted the twin flak on to it after the war

Yes, the Zwilling was never meant to be fired from that trailer, it's just to move the finished gun from point A to B.

Paul

The pictured trailer is the Culemeyer (or Gotha) 80 ton one :



H.P.

a must have!