Scale Military Modeller International – September 2019

Leopold German

Field Cannon

I

have always been fascinated

with the huge railway cannons

and the breadth of the German

Nazi technology. Their ideas to

build bigger and bigger cannons such as the

‘Dora’ or the ‘Leopold’, and their planned

mammoth project the Ratte’ and

such were amazing. But what might

have happened if the War had

not ended 1945, and the German

Reich continued their weapons

development? What kind of projects

would have taken shape? Maybe they

would have also improved and modiied

some their existing equipment to make it

bigger or even better? This was the basic

idea I had when I have planned this project

• why not modify the Leopold cannon to be
  used in the ield as well? I have no idea if the
  suspension used on the E-75 tanks would
  bear the weight of the huge cannon when
  iring, even with some additional plate-like
  supports mounted at the centre of the rig. I
  do not know if all this would work, but let’s
  assume that the Germans made it work
  and start this project.
  Trumpeter’s fantastic E-75 tanks were
  used for the two base vehicles – and the
  centre of the upper hulls were cut out
  and replaced by plastic sheet, and any
  gaps illed and sanded down. The engine
  grilles at the back were are replaced
  with etched parts of Aber,
  and further metal parts of
  Voyager were used all
  around the vehicles.

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MICHAEL FRANZ WONDERS ‘WHAT IF’ THE GERMAN BIG GUN WAS MOUNTED ON A ROAD TRAIN!