1/35 scale M-42 Duster twin 40mm Hellenic Army

[Nick_Karatzides]

1/35 scale M-42 Duster 2x40mm Hellenic Army
SPG - Self Propelled anti aircraft Gun model by Tamiya

That's an almost 20 years old scale model project of mine, built in only few hours. The model represent one of the M-42 Duster twin 40mm SPGs, used to operate with Hellenic Army colours. In fact, I found this M-42 Duster with exact s/n, stationed on Tsimandria beach at the island of Lemnos back in 1992, propably under some Army artillery movements for onshore protection versus LCVPs. Because I have no experience in AFVs or tanks, I took few pictures to avoid possible mistakes while building this model and relied exclusively on these photographs to build it. The M-42, was as dusty as it looks in scale, with the downward .50" BMG as you see, spare barrels, etc.

[milten]

Vehicles are hardly my forte but this looks like excellent job!!
I am strongly emotionally attached to Greece.
YAMAS

[Messerschmitt]

It`s very good work...
5+

[Mikoyan29]

THIS IS FENOMENAL!!!

[Nick_Karatzides]

That's an almost 20 years old scale model project of mine...

...but after paint stripping in 2010. disassembling & reconstructing and repainting again, the result is the following. I did some modifications with styrene, but no additional PE parts used. The main modification I made was to reduce the thickness of the turrets armor, into more realistic levels (feel free to check differences between THIS and THIS picture). Adding some extra fuel canisters, tools & shovels, flashlight, hoses etc seemed right to me. Spare 40mm cannons and few more elements made of wire & plastic, adding some detail to this oldie. Off course, I could use the PE / resin upgrade kit for best results, but I didn't want to spend more time & money trying to re-birth a 20+ years old kit. The sights are 1/48 scale afterburners actually, taken from an old F-5E Tiger II kit.

[Neca i Misko]

this is great!

[Plavac]

Excellent work