Time for a Change of Gears
New guns on the "Toy" military attack boat
Reworking the boat’s weapons and other deck components.
First, the comically-oversized “water cannon” (just a .50 cal that they toy manufacturer repainted, it still had the ammo belt hanging out of the receiver) was removed from the bow mount.
Bought a pack of 1/72 (20mm) .50 cals. Two of these were mounted on a scrap piece of unused side skirt for a T-54 tank. These were then magnet-mounted onto the bow mount so they could still swivel.
Now I have four leftover .50 cals. That’s just no good, so I built two more gun mounts on the roof of the pilot house, one port bow, one starboard bow. “Pole” mounts cut from unused gun barrels of T-55AMs.
Extra pieces for the plating cut from unused planking of 1/56 German Opel Blitz trucks. Guns based in gray and dark-washed in darker gray / black.
Again, this was a toy bought from Sea World for $10 almost two years ago, noticed it was almost exactly 1/72 in scale (measuring the doors and windows against 20mm figures) so just trying to make a fun table top piece out of it.
The gun posts on the roof came out great.