Soviet Heavy Rail Artillery

Here is the Soviet railway gun in action.

Sitting along a rail spur.

Getting ready to fire.

Troops check the area.

The gun is moved onto the target.

And it's ready to fire.

Train with Cannon

So far I have put it together and primer painted it.

I figure this is about an eight inch gun.

I think it's a pretty simple and easy conversion.

No glass in the windows, in real life they probably would have shutters rather than glass.

Real Soviet guns often have a green or overall black paint job.  These will probably get green.

Soviet Railway Gun

I am building a few WWII Soviet Union heavy railway artillery guns.

The Russians did use large caliber guns on railway carriages with a turret.

This is a model crane that I got at a train show.

The frame was broken, so I repaired it with another bit of plastic.

The gun is from the old Airfix Coastal Defense Fort.

I have three of them so far.

Waterloo 1815 75mm Mountain Howitzer

Waterloo 1815 makes a US Army 75mm mountain howitzer in 1/72nd scale.

It comes with rubber tires.

However the older guns had wooden spoke wheels.

I converted this to a pre-war version by using some "wooden" spoke wheels from the spares box.

Here it is with the WWII crew by Waterloo 1815.

This is the original model built straight from the box.  I added the styrene plastic base because the trails are rather fragile and won't stand up to much handling.

Here is a HaT WWI US Army crew from the HaT US Army French 75 set.

Howitzers like this were used in the Philippine Campaign against the attacking Japanese.

I have managed to put together four of them, but I hope to get a few more.  They will also serve in my 1938 US Army project.