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Wednesday, December 28, 2016 - 06:53 PM UTC
Planning on building Takom’s Hanomag SS-100 as an artillery tractor? Take a look at Custom-Scale’s 8.8cm ammunition bins to complete your ensemble.
Probably the best known model of its heavy tractors, the Hanomag SS-100 was used by both Heer and Luftwaffe units in various operating theaters during the Second World War. It was deployed to tow artillery, aircraft, bombs, gasoline trailers, and even the trailers that were used to transport the V2 rocket.

Period photographs of the Hanomag SS-100 towing the 8.8cm gun show ammunition bins on the sides behind its cab. Custom-Scale’s kit 35069 is a resin set that builds these ammunition bins and was designed for the Takom SS-100 kit.
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0Is the Hanomag SS-100 the biggest yawn city kit ever? And from what I hear it comes from Takom's equivalent of Dragon's Black Label crew..i.e. it is a second class citizen..not hating just saying...
DEC 28, 2016 - 07:10 PM
I have the kit. I think it is nice, will build it when the time comes! The munitions bins are a nice option. I imagine that there will be lots of other aftermarket stuff for this tractor.
DEC 28, 2016 - 10:09 PM
I don't know what the yawn factor is or the expectations were that were supposedly unmet. It always seemed obvious to me that modelers had to provide their own artillery kit to be towed by it (which also means gun is in travel and not combat mode).
DEC 28, 2016 - 10:35 PM
Well, the new wheel set announced by DEFModel will hopefully fix one of its problems - they're hopefully wartime tires.
DEC 28, 2016 - 11:51 PM
Kind of weird looking but I find it an interesting use for a dog-ugly truck. Perhaps Custom Scale could step in and offer an artillery version of Tamiya's huge Famo kit before I'm forced to scratch-build it later in the upcoming year. Now THERE would be an interesting beast. This one shown here, after some reflection, not so much...
DEC 29, 2016 - 08:50 AM
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