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<blockquote data-quote="Silverstrike" data-source="post: 16874806" data-attributes="member: 4781"><p>[ATTACH=full]1779950[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p> Just got these this Friday and so got pretty much everything for my Bolt Action armies. Rubicon Models make some good model kits just that you have to use either a very good super glue or ABS type glue for them as if you do not the pieces will not bond and so you just end up with a big old mess. The SD Kfz 7 (8 ton payload) was the 3rd largest halftrack type to be built and see service in the war they originally was to tow and position the FLAK 36/37 88mm field AA gun, the largest halftracks was the 12 ton SD Kfz 8 then the monster SD Kfz 9 (18 ton payload). The 9 was so massive and expensive as it cost 60,000 Reichsmarks to build a Panther Ausf A tank was 117,000!!!!</p><p></p><p> The M-5A1 and M-8 Scott was off shoots of the M3 Stuart light tank, except the M5 had twin Cadillac V-8's and a GM hydromatic automatic gearbox and a little thicker armor in the nose 64mm vs the 50 that the M-3 had. The Scott was built from Sept 42 to Jan 44. The reason it was so short in production was that the M-7 Priest SPG and 105mm armed Sherman's was made and could do everything the M-8 could and better with the larger gun and HE ammo over the lighter 75mm howitzer the M-8 had. But the M-8 continued to be used in all fronts to the end of the war as it's light weight and size was perfect in the iland hopping campaigns in the Pacific and the tight winding roads in Italy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silverstrike, post: 16874806, member: 4781"] [ATTACH type="full"]1779950[/ATTACH] Just got these this Friday and so got pretty much everything for my Bolt Action armies. Rubicon Models make some good model kits just that you have to use either a very good super glue or ABS type glue for them as if you do not the pieces will not bond and so you just end up with a big old mess. The SD Kfz 7 (8 ton payload) was the 3rd largest halftrack type to be built and see service in the war they originally was to tow and position the FLAK 36/37 88mm field AA gun, the largest halftracks was the 12 ton SD Kfz 8 then the monster SD Kfz 9 (18 ton payload). The 9 was so massive and expensive as it cost 60,000 Reichsmarks to build a Panther Ausf A tank was 117,000!!!! The M-5A1 and M-8 Scott was off shoots of the M3 Stuart light tank, except the M5 had twin Cadillac V-8's and a GM hydromatic automatic gearbox and a little thicker armor in the nose 64mm vs the 50 that the M-3 had. The Scott was built from Sept 42 to Jan 44. The reason it was so short in production was that the M-7 Priest SPG and 105mm armed Sherman's was made and could do everything the M-8 could and better with the larger gun and HE ammo over the lighter 75mm howitzer the M-8 had. But the M-8 continued to be used in all fronts to the end of the war as it's light weight and size was perfect in the iland hopping campaigns in the Pacific and the tight winding roads in Italy. [/QUOTE]
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