From JamesM: 15mm limbered Pak40s (12 points)

Hi folks,

A quick little entry for me this week, in the form of the towed guns for my previously completed half-track prime movers. 

These are 15mm metal models from Skytrex, who kindly provided three of the limbered gun versions on my order (rather than their usual mix of limbered and deployed). 

A simple paint job, and angled so that they match up with the tow hook placement on the half tracks. Basing done to my usual style to fit with the rest of my collection. 

And here they are with their transports:

Not sure that these will see the table frequently, but I like having this type of thing as part of the collection. They form any official part of the rules for Flames of War, it's purely a modelling thing on my behalf, and I have 6-pdrs and 17-pdrs done like this.

We had one interesting game pre-Covid where the allied (Canadian) force had to rush forward limbered A/T guns to provide infantry with support against marauding Panthers, which then deployed into useful positions. Those looked cool too!

It'll be nice to give the Germans a similar option, or to scare the players with sight of this unit dashing down a road somewhere off in the distance... The joys of very large tables, bwa ha ha. 

These three guns at 15mm come out at 12 points. 

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Excellent guns, James. I like that you did these just for being a completionist and the hobby-joy of it. I can definitely get my head around that. They especially look great being towed by the tracks. They could also provide some wonderful targets of opportunity for air attack games with Thunderbolts and Typhoons clouding the skies, doing their thing. Lovely work!

- Curt