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Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 11:47 PM UTC
Or, more correctly, 21cm Mörser. Takom is to release a 1/35 kit of this German heavy mortar, a huge piece of ordnance that saw service during the Great War.
The new big gun from World War I is coming to increase the stream of tanks and guns from this time that have been recently launched.

The M1910 Mörser was produced by Krupp and 216 of them were ready -and deployed- when the war started. During the war it evolved to M1916 (hence the variants 10 and 16), which had extended range of 10.2 km, merely one kilometre more than the M1190. The shield was a M1916 feature, although it was retrofitted also to some M1910.

According to Takom, it comes with photo etch, 4 types of markings and 2 types of wheels. Both M1910 and M1916 models can be built.

With its size (weighting over 7.000 kg), shield and wooden plates added to the wheels, it certainly looks impressive
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So what's the verdict? KL
JAN 09, 2016 - 08:23 PM
Still out. Work prevented me from getting there Friday and it's been raining all weekend. Hopefully I'll get it Monday.
JAN 09, 2016 - 11:11 PM
Rain? Rain?! You let yourself get stopped by a little rain? Why in my day, I climbed on tanks with an aluminum ladder during a thunderstorm. You kids today are soft! KL
JAN 10, 2016 - 05:52 AM
That's just because aluminum is a poor conductor.
JAN 10, 2016 - 07:51 AM
This gun is in beautiful condition. Here's the results: The Takom kit is dead on accurate compared to all actual measurements.
JAN 11, 2016 - 02:59 AM
Wow. It's incredible that the drawing, the Verlinden kit, and the Commanders Models kit are so far off, but I'll bet the kits were derived from the drawing. Thanks for doing this Matt. I wanted this kit but was holding off until the accuracy question was resolved. I was figuring in measuring one myself but the nearest piece to me is four hours away. Thanks again, KL
JAN 11, 2016 - 07:25 AM
You're welcome Kurt. It answered the question for me, too. Hopefully "for the modeling world"...
JAN 11, 2016 - 08:08 AM
Thank you, Matt, for taking the time out to measure the real gun. I'm very excited about this, as I find WW1 artillery far more interesting and compelling than the tanks, so this is great news for me & my stash. I DO wish Takom would bring out WW1 versions of their Skoda siege howitzers.
JAN 11, 2016 - 11:07 PM
You're welcome Bill. Once I found the gun, it was exciting to go over the real thing. I share your love of the big WWI artillery.
JAN 11, 2016 - 11:23 PM
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