Hi, here's the last gun for my German Artillery park! This time I've built and painted an Airfix 7.5 cm Pak 40. This gun came in a set together with an opel blitz and some crewmembers. These crew members however were to big to be used with my other 20mm miniatures and so I ended up using Hät crew members. This 7.5 cm Pak 40 will give my earlier war Germans the much needed ability to destroy some allied medium armour!
Development of the PaK 40 began in 1939 with development contracts being placed with Krupp and Rheinmetall to develop a 7.5 cm anti-tank gun. Priority of the project was initially low, but Operation Barbarossa in 1941 and the sudden appearance of heavily armoured Soviet tanks like the T-34 and KV-1, increased the priority. The first pre-production guns were delivered in November 1941. In April 1942, Wehrmacht had 44 guns in service. By 1943 the PaK 40 formed the bulk of the German anti-tank artillery.The PaK 40 was the standard German anti-tank gun until the end of the war, and was supplied by Germany to its allies. Some captured guns were used by the Red Army. Source wikipedia
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5 comments:
Very nice model. The HaT crew look better than the Airfix crew too.
Nice looking piece, deadly blighter too!
A great looking piece, nicely painted.
Thanks!
@Rodger, the airfix crew is just awful and so big!
@Paul, that deadliness will be needed for the invasion of england as the 88's will need a harbor to be unloaded.
@Ray, thanks much appreciated!
Nice work. I have this model too, but I have not buildt it up today. I agree with your meaning about the Airfix figures.
Happy New Year.
Regards
Lonewolf
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