Big Guns

Howitzer bits sleeping in their cryogenic sleep chambers waiting for re-awaking.

HO Scale 170mm gun in resin by Arsenal-M from my friend Randy at Fidelis Models.

The instruction sheet is not fantastic. It's all little pictures. Some are vague.

Here are most of those same bits laid out on the table for assembly.

Here they are together. I have to do this five times, this is just the first one.

Big Guns

170mm WWII German artillery from Arsenal-M. I special ordered four of them from Randy at Fidelis Models. Randy is one of my best friends.

I also got two of the nearly identical 210mm howitzers also. I cut them off the sprue and sorted the parts for each into a cheap box I got at Michaels.

There are also etched brass bits too in the upper left hand corner.

Some of them are molded in gray and some in yellow resin. The resin is semi-hard and semi-brittle. I did not break a single piece while trimming them up. Quite a feat really.

I built one of the guns several months ago, well many a year or two ago. In the last month I prepped the other five for construction and they are here in these boxes. The models are HO scale and very expensive, fortunantely Randy always gives me a deal.

Armored Car

Another view of the Austro-Daimler ADGZ.

Close up of the radiator area. Those verticle bits are molded on the hull. Awesome.

Armored car with Roco Panzer III.

Roco Panzer III with Tiger I Porsche version.

All three together. It's nice to have unusual vehicles in addition to the common ones. I feel it makes my collection a bit more special. A special thanks to Mrs. Bunkermeister for letting me buy such expensive vehicles and for Randy of Fidelis Models for all his help in getting them for me.

Austro-Daimler ADGZ

This HO 1/7 scale kit is by WSW-Modellbau. I usually get my high end European resin models from Fidelis Models in California. Randy and I have known each other for 25 years so I like to buy from him when I can.

This is a quick easy build with no flash. Check out those gills on the front end, all part of the hull.

This armored car was also called the Steyer.

These armored cars were made in Austria before Germany took them over.

After the war started several more were made for the SS and the German police.

Mine will probably end up in police units.