DAK 88mm

[Traffic]

 I bought 8 of these as I wanted some 88s for a 1945 themed game and at the time could only get the DAK variant in plastic so thought about just doing head swaps with PP heads.  I put the first two together and then forgot about them.  With the renewed impetus on painting I dug them out to find out that I had actually used a figure in shorts so I will do a pair of the guns as DAK before going back to the late war theme.



Oil spots on


A bit too clean


Panel lines


Crew

[martin goddard]

The 88 is an icon of WW2 gaming.
I think in late war i would prefer to crew a lower profile gun (back at HQ).

martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

This model does bring out the size - particularly of the big shield on the front. I think I'm with Martin on this one.

Thanks for explaining the oil spots - I'd initially thought that someone was having a laugh with an ambush camouflage scheme  They work really well on the finished model.

Simon

[Alex M]

Another impressive paint job ! Thanks for posting, cheers Alex

[pbeccas (Paul)]

Great painting Traffic.  There is really something about the desert war that really inspires me.

[Traffic]

A bit of subtle chipping

[Panzer21]

For North Africa you could have them fighting still on the wheeled trailers instead of deployed....
Probably to aid rapid redeployment, but the recoil must have been a b***er!
Neil

[Smiley Miley 66]

They do look very nice, I love the crew figures, you could mix in some PP standing 8th Army crew with head changes, so you would have bare chested fellas in the mix ?
Looking at YouTube the recoil is "soaked up" rather well on the Gun mount with or without the wheels.
Unfortunately FoW don't really give you an option, I think Skytrek (warlord) are the only company that gives you the wheels ?
Also to do the slightly lower normal "88" is a major modelling task, but would be worth doing at somepoint, there are several how to convert the "Airfix 88" to the later mount and standard.
Miles

[martin goddard]

A lovely model, well carried out.
The only downside is that the 88 gives a +4 to the opponent in the piggy chase. A major consideration?


martin