Does anyone make the Boys in 1:35 scale?

I believe Italeri has this rifle in one of their 1:35 accesoires kits, together with some wooden crates, ammunition cans, Lee Enfied rifles, Bren guns, Sten guns and English helmets.....

edit: this one:


Can be of good use for diorama builders.

Martin

I believe the Tamiya LRDG Chevrolet truck has one, too. I think I have at least one of these floating around. If you need it and can't find it, let me know and we can arrange things.

IIRC I think there is one in the Italeri Kangaroo kit.
HTH

Hi Martin, it certainly does have a couple. Quite nice ones too.

The Italeri one is the better of the two (and the set has some nice SMLEs and early Brens) but there isn't a plastic version of the monopod, you only get the later bipod mounting.

I've got some spares.

Does anyone know when it was phased out? What sort of time frame would you be able to use it in a diorama? I have seen a few pictures of it with Brit/commonwealth troops in Sicily.

Ryan,
Some quick googling said it was phased out in favor of the PIAT in 1942. Also found a site that said it was used in the Pacific through out the war because the armor on the Japanese tanks was always pretty thin.

Shaun

From wikipedia

Used by:
Australian Forces - Nicknamed "Charlie the bastard" (because of its savage recoil).
British Army
Canadian Forces
United States Marine Corps
Finnish Army, as 14 mm pst kiv/37, during the Winter War and the Continuation War.
Rifles captured after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Forces in Norway and France were given the name Panzerbüchse Boyes in German service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifle,_Anti-Tank,_.55_in,_Boys

The USMC rechambered theirs in .50 BMG.

Just a quick note to publicly thank Martin for supplying me with a Boys.

Thanks Martin!