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Armor/AFV: What If?
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100mm BS-3 mounted on a new SP platform
Alter_Mann
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Posted: Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 02:12 AM UTC
Newbie posting for the 1st time

I'm toying with the idea of mounting the ICM 1/35 100mm BS-3 Field Gun on a new SP Mounting.

I'm thinking of a Tamiya Pz IV Ausf D (my 1st AFV model - painted not so good) or a Tamiya M3 Stuart ......

Which one will be the most realistic SP mounting - IIRC a 75mm Pak was mounted on a M3 Mounting ...

Thanks for any advice

tankmodeler
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Posted: Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 02:59 AM UTC

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I'm thinking of a Tamiya Pz IV Ausf D (my 1st AFV model - painted not so good) or a Tamiya M3 Stuart ......

Which one will be the most realistic SP mounting - IIRC a 75mm Pak was mounted on a M3 Mounting ...


Bearing in mind the nature of the request... :-)

The Stuart just wouldn't be able to manage the recoil. I suspect it bucked like hell with the PaK 40. The 100 mm just wouldn't work.

Even mounting it on a Pz IV would be dicey, but the chassis should be able to take it.. The gun is relatively large, as well, you'd need a medium tank sized hull to have a hope of containing the weapon and it's recoil.

Build it into a tank destroyer like the Pz IV L/70 for a relatively plausable effect.

Just my 2 cents, of course.

Paul
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Posted: Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 06:52 AM UTC
The Egyptians used BS-3 100mm gun mounted on a T-34/85. Here is a link to a scratch build article from Finescale magazine and a link to a picture of the vehicle on a web album. The Album has many more pictures of this vehicle. The Finescale article uses the ICM kit.
http://www2.finescale.com/fsm/default.aspx?c=a&id=520&cc=DA3qqe

http://community.webshots.com/photo/173277034/1173288306053420267SMvpHj
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