French 1940 ATG

[stevothedivo]

Hey lads
BKC II pg78 lists 25 and 47mm ATGs I assume are codes FRE6 and FRE7
Is the portee version available, too?

[sunjester]

Hey lads
BKC II pg78 lists 25 and 47mm ATGs I assume are codes FRE6 and FRE7
Is the portee version available, too?

Yes they are, but unfortunately not from Pendraken.

[Leon]

As sunjester says, not at the moment.  We are waiting on a French truck from the designer, so once that's done, we can pop the gun in it.

[Squirrel]

As sunjester says, not at the moment.  We are waiting on a French truck from the designer, so once that's done, we can pop the gun in it.

I'll look forward to that 

Cheers,

Kev

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Leon - the French Portees would be on their soft 1/2 Tracks, cant ever remeber the name. You could do a British one, open cab 15cwt with the 25mm on it - used 1940, we swaped 100 Boys ATR fro the Hotchkiss gun.

IanS

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi

the French Portees would be on their soft 1/2 Tracks, cant ever remeber the name.
IanS

That would be the Citroën-Kegresse type half tracks 


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they were also mounted on Laffly trucks. Either would be more than satisfactory . Also a horse drawn limber wouldn't go astray either  .

I'd even take this:-





Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[Leon]

We're looking at doing the Laffly trucks, so it would be that version most likely.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi

Just with regard to the 25mm does the model have separate trails to make portee/limbered versions easily, and is there a small limber with pneumatic tyres available (I'll see if I can round up a picture), and which draught horse would be best? While we're talking about portees there's always the UE tractor:-







Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi

Found some info on the limber, the version I was looking at only had one horse though.



It can also be used for the 60mm mortar and as an 8mm Hotchkiss mg cart.

Anybody have a pic of German WW2 - Infantry light limber trailer with horse - GR37, could it be used as a proxy?

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[fred.]

GR37 which is actually a pair of limbers, looks pretty close to the French one.

[Grundig]

A Citroën-Kegresse model with crew, just like the photo from Grumpy would be a good choice; it's something unique.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

The 1/2 track would be useful by itself, it's the offical Dragon Portes transport.

IanS

[NTM]

Half track was also used by the Germans and Major Becker made some armoured conversions to equip the Panzer Grenadiers of 21. Panzer so my vote goes for that.