Horse Training

Toobs makes a set of horses.

The horses are too big for me being about 28mm size.

But they do make hedges and obstacles in the set that are used by horse trainers.

These obstacles are very small and useable for 1/72nd scale.

Hot Wheels

 I got this Hot Wheels truck.

It's very retro looking.

It's part of their flag series.

I think it's a very patriotic theme.

It will end up with my CPT America tour group.

I am working on a small unit of them.

Pontoon Bridges

Working on the pontoon project.

I got a bunch of Imex Conestoga Wagon sets for the horses, and wagons.

I figured the wagon boxes would make great pontoons for pontoon bridges.

Plastic rod cut up for railings.

 I think they will turn out pretty well.  Sheet plastic for the roadways.

T6 Tanks

Prior to building the Sherman tank the US Army built the T6 tank.

 The plan was to make one tank that would have a removable turret front.

The front would allow the unit commander to exchange fronts to deploy different weapons suites.

The gun systems were a 75mm gun with counterweight, as seen on the Lee series, the 75mm gun without counterweight, as seen on late production Lee tanks, a twin 37mm anti-tank guns, the same gun as the towed 37mm anti-tank gun, a single 57mm anti-tank gun, like the towed gun, and a triple .50 caliber anti-aircraft gun version.

The removable front turret face was used in the Sherman, but these other weapons versions were not used.  I think the triple .50 caliber machine guns would have made a good AA weapon and even better as a weapon against lightly armored vehicles and infantry.