Reply To: Scattered Thoughts From A Grumpy Kit Basher

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Today I’m going to discuss an old favorite of mine , PSC’s 28mm scale  45mm Anti Tank Gun kit .

Although the box top shows 3 guns , you only get 2 . I’m thinking they used the 20mm box photo as you get 3 in that kit. The nice thing about this kit is you get 3 options for gun barrels , a short 45mm  Model 37 , the longer barrel Model 42 and a short 76mm Regimental Howitzer .  You can use the extra gun breeches to add interior detail to your T-26 or T-34 , You get 4 crew per gun ,  and with head , arm and equipment swaps using Warlord bits they turn out ok . The kit crew weapons and heads  are best binned .   You also get a couple of ammo boxes , and some sort of – 45mm rounds . They don’t look right to me .   Lots of area to improve on these guns as there are  no sights , tool cases on the shields , the  cleaning rods are missing , as well as details on the gun breech  . I added  more detail parts  to the guns in transport mode , the gun crews would hide the missing details on my guns in action .

The warlord Russian figures work great as crews , I even built a crew wheeling a gun to another position .  I scratch built the briefcase style ammo case from Plastruct sheet and a few reference photos .  The same with the cassion towing the howitzer , the main body is a tool box from  a GW tank , and Tamiya 1/48 scale wheels  .  I really love these gun kits , I have 9 . I wish PSC had upscaled some of their other 20mm  gun kits , but it was not to be . They seem to be out production , as they are  not listed on PSC’s site and if you can find them , they go  for about $20 per single gun .  Or at least the last one I got cost that much

A great reference book for both the 45mm guns , the 76mm Howitzer , as well as the ZIS 2 (57mm ) and ZIS 3 (76mm) is this book from Wings & Wheels Publications .   No I’m not an employee , just a satisfied customer , I’ve got 19 0f their books