Oxford Diecast - "OO" gauge (1/76th) Railway gun

[Phil Gollin]

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Announced yesterday, a RTR British 18-inch howitzer Railway Gun ;

 

https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/collections/by-range/products/railgun-gladiator-ww11-railgun-or76boom02

 

Probably not wonderfully detailed, but no one else will do one.

 

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[bootneck]

I had seen that also, but it is a future item with no date when available in the shops yet.

Mike

[Kingsman]

That's not a bad price compared to, say, the old Hasegawa K5E and the few resin railguns available. 

 

The one they've chosen - at least from the photo - is a unique gun called Boche Buster, 18" ordnance taken from store and mounted on a carriage originally mounting a 14" weapon.  These guns only had a range of about 12 miles, so this one was an anti-invasion weapon and not useful for cross-channel bombardment.  Completed too late for WW1 and never fired in anger in WW2.  The gun - but not the carriage - is the same as the one variously displayed at Larkhill, Fort Nelson and the Dutch Railway Museum.

 

I don't know Oxford's rail products, but their trackside vehicles are pretty good for that scale - accepting the limitations of moulding and die-casting.  Looking at photos of their Warwell wagons, these seem to be very highly detailed.

 

A gun on the move would have quite a train of support wagons - and need a big mantelpiece!