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A few of us brought up the "Railway Guns" eariler. Andy said they would be

far to big to be practicle. Unless we get the price of oil back under control

shipping for these larger items is really going to be a problem.

Njja
 
Eazy said:
How about the "Leopold" railway gun? :)
Built in 1/30th and all. Now that would be something. :D
Though i guess it's hard to keep something that size Top Secret. In fact it's not even secret at all so... uhm i'll just walk on by, nothing to see here... move along.
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:D

Picture the scene James.Rommel on the field telephone to the driver of the Leopold Railway gun,a captured British soldier who once worked for British railways.

Rommel; I want you to bring up Leopold and bombard the Britsh beaches at once.
Fred; Sorry Erwin can't do that me ol china
Rommel; What!!
Fred; Fing is you see theres leafs on the line
Rommel;Gott in Himmel,what are you talking about man!!Do as i say!!!!!
Fred;Sorry,like to elp you out an all but its more than me jobs worth.
Rommel;Do you know who i am??,i've conquered nations and driven my Tanks across Europe for God sake!!!!
Fred;Sorry its a very bad line and its our regulation tea break,ta ta for now!

Rob
 
It's an awesome feat of engineering though. I can't imagine what it must have been like to see one firing in real life.
But yes a model version would not be very practical in terms of size, shipping and cost. I guess it would have to be produced in sections somehow.
 
Rob said:
:D

Picture the scene James.Rommel on the field telephone to the driver of the Leopold Railway gun,a captured British soldier who once worked for British railways.

Rommel; I want you to bring up Leopold and bombard the Britsh beaches at once.
Fred; Sorry Erwin can't do that me ol china
Rommel; What!!
Fred; Fing is you see theres leafs on the line
Rommel;Gott in Himmel,what are you talking about man!!Do as i say!!!!!
Fred;Sorry,like to elp you out an all but its more than me jobs worth.
Rommel;Do you know who i am??,i've conquered nations and driven my Tanks across Europe for God sake!!!!
Fred;Sorry its a very bad line and its our regulation tea break,ta ta for now!

Rob
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Not forgetting that if they took it to Russia it wouldn't be able to move cause the "wrong" type of snow is on the tracks.

Good old British rail. They'd struggle to transport a 25lb gun and fire it twice.
 
Eazy said:
Not forgetting that if they took it to Russia it wouldn't be able to move cause the "wrong" type of snow is on the tracks.

Good old British rail. They'd struggle to transport a 25lb gun and fire it twice.
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Ah yes 'the Wrong type of snow' i'd forgot that one.:D

I think they have one of these railway guns at the Aberdeen proving grounds in America don't they,i'm sure i've seen pics of it there.If ever i'm in that neck of the woods its a must.

Rob
 
Rob said:
Ah yes 'the Wrong type of snow' i'd forgot that one.:D

I think they have one of these railway guns at the Aberdeen proving grounds in America don't they,i'm sure i've seen pics of it there.If ever i'm in that neck of the woods its a must.

Rob
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Yes Rob. Leopold is quite something to see. I have been there many times and they have a great collection.
 
Harrytheheid said:
How about a crack American hit-squad "liberating" an enigma machine from a sinking U-Boat? Similar to that movie, U-whatever-it-was. The operation must have been so top-secret it was covered up, so's the Germans wouldn't find out the Allies had discovered how to access their top-secret codes.Cheers H
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Actually, Andy could do the Royal Navy boarding party that actually boarded a sinking U Boat (U-110??) and grabbed the cypher machine and I think grabbed the boat also. I'd have to read up but I think the British had their hands on TWO U Boats during the war. One was recommissioned with a name and was used for training and evaluation.

An American hunter-killer group (3-4 DEs and a CVE) got U-505 via boarding party also. Pretty nervy to go aboard and neutralize the scuttling charges.

Gary
 
The K5e 28cm gun (such as "Leopold" was a neat looking gun. I was surprised at the number of them built and the volume of German railway guns.

"Leopold" is good, the huge "Gustav" is too big, so we'll compromise on having a K&C 1:30 scale model of one of the 40.6cm (16") ex-naval guns with bunker and Kriegsmarine gun crew from Batterie Lindemann. This was one of the heavy gun batteries in Calais and actually bombarded England on a few occasions.

Gary B
 
binder001 said:
The K5e 28cm gun (such as "Leopold" was a neat looking gun. I was surprised at the number of them built and the volume of German railway guns.

"Leopold" is good, the huge "Gustav" is too big, so we'll compromise on having a K&C 1:30 scale model of one of the 40.6cm (16") ex-naval guns with bunker and Kriegsmarine gun crew from Batterie Lindemann. This was one of the heavy gun batteries in Calais and actually bombarded England on a few occasions.

Gary B
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Thats right i think there were two guns that bombarded Dover during the war.There was a programme on it sometime back,with shelling and air attack if you lived in Dover you were on the front line!.

Rob
 
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Jim5615 said:
Yes Rob. Leopold is quite something to see. I have been there many times and they have a great collection.
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If ever i make over there Jim i'll be giving you a shout mate;)

Rob
 
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