1/6th scale 25-pdr

[Mike Cecil]

Well, an Armortek 1/6th scale 25-pdr is about as close to owning the real thing as I'll ever (want to) get. Easier to display, too, as it fits the side board in my office!

The metal model comes with a barrel fitted with a muzzle brake as standard, but wanting to end up with a model representing an Australian WW2-period 25-pdr, I measured the guns at Murgon and Tiaro in Qld. A friend in NZ then drew up the barrel at scale, and another friend in England manufactured the scale barrel. Assembly was in the USA, so quite an international effort.

The model also comes standard with a smooth recoil mechanism more akin to the welded version, so I added rivets along the sides and underside to simulate the more common riveted version.

Armourpax produce an after-market details kit for the model, some of which I added. The resin castings of the trail spikes that come with that kit were not straight, however, so I'm having a set of steel spikes turned up, and will place those in the stowage brackets in a week or so.

After that, I will apply a set of appropriate markings to the shield and call it done. I'm no expert scale modeler, but the result looks reasonably good, I think.

Now back to the intricacies of the Ford GP!

Mike