[WWI] OT question: Artillery Tractor or Truck

[John Ratzenberger]

Just to close this out for a while, I did find the Azimut kit of the Latil TAR ..
Further research lead to a several pictures of the truck in both US and French service, at least two of which show it with the 
155mm GPF ...  Still wish I could find a Holt Tractor ... sigh ...

Now to find an F.W.D truck kit ...

John Ratzenberger

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ratzenberger" <JohnRatzenberger at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, 05 May, 2007 19:54
Subject: Re: [WWI] OT question: Artillery Tractor or Truck


Karen,
Thanks.

The 155GPF weighed just over 12 tons in travel mode, so I need something in the heavy truck/tractor category -- 
sorry, but neither 6 nor 8 horses are going to hack it ...  I don't think any vehicles I saw on these websites fit the bill,
although they are interesting.  Since the ADV/Azimut kit was an impulse buy, I didn't put the time into figuring out the DES
version was 40% less ... bummer.

Anyway, I'm still looking for a prime mover.  I have narrowed probable vehicles down to:
-- Tractor, Half-Track, Artillery, 15-ton (Holt/Caterpillar 75hp)
-- Tractor, Full-Track, 10-ton, Armored (Ordnance/Holt)
-- Truck, 4x4 Renault EG
-- Truck, 4x4 Latil TAR

Other interesting vehicles to complement this would be the F.W.D series 3-ton trucks for supplies & ammo.

A couple of interesting websites ...
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/slideshows/148fa/sld001.htm
http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~cacunithistories/defeating_the_hun.htm

Still looking,
John Ratzenberger

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Rychlewski" <krychski at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Saturday, 05 May, 2007 00:41
Subject: Re: [WWI] OT question: Artillery Tractor or Truck



On May 4, 2007, at 6:39 PM, John Ratzenberger wrote:

> I have the ADV/Azimut 1/35 scale 155mm GPF .
> Does anyone know of a 1/35 kit of a Holt (Caterpiller) Tractor,
> 75hp or near to it ?
> Barring that any 1/35 WW1 Renault truck or any other Allied tractor ?

Take a peek at Panzershop:
http://www.panzershop.cz/inshop/

filter by era-WWI, and you'll find 1/35 kits of 2 different Italian
trucks by Cri.El, and a Mack Bulldog.
Also available elsewhere (http://www.redlancers.com/minilistout.asp?
subcat=1671&mfg=570&page=1) are 3 Berliets, a Nash Quad, and 2 Pierce
Arrow cargo trucks from CGM/Adrian. Better have deep pockets.

You might want to compare the Azimut kit with the DES kit of the
155mm in WWI guise-#35046
http://deskit.online.fr/01_systeme/pages_systeme/home_page.htm
and to make it *really* authentic, you'll need the 6-horse team to
pull it-#35071

Karen