With my BTR-50 PU making good progress. I plan for the next build. It will be a BTR-50 PK
with interior. On the BTR-50 the 7,62 mm Goryunov machine gun can only be mounted with the roof hatches open. But I don´t found any pics how the machine gun is installed.
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Hermann, I can help you here - or at least up to a point. I raised this some years ago when I first got my own BTR-50. After a fair bit of discussion (and it’s probably still on the site somewhere) it appears that the MG is pintle-mounted within the fighting compartment. I kept the images (provided by a very helpful Kitmaker member):
I then experimented on my own (incomplete) model and found it still quite a tight option; I wasn’t even sure that it could be operated as such but there must have been a way!
Anyway, hopefully mystery solved and that this helps.
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Hi Brian,
exactly what I looked for! The mount attached to the braces in the fighting compartment. BTW the lower pics shows a NVA vehicle, as can be judged form the convoy rear light. Thanks a lot.
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My pleasure!
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I don’t think that post in the rear view is a pedestal mount, I believe it is a structural support for the roof.
The manual for the vehicle says:
The machine gun is mounted with a mount using a swivel bracket and two guide rails - front (course) and rear (aft), ensuring firing along the course in a sector of 113° and to the stern in a sector of 93°.
The guide strips are identical in design and are attached: the front one (item 3 in drawing) on the U-shaped beam of the troop compartment, the rear one - on the folding sheet of the rear wall of the troop compartment.
The “U-shaped beam” is visible as the coaming at the front of the compartment, I think.
KL
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Actually Kurt that is very helpful; I’m still not sure if I’ll go with it one way or the other - by that I mean I may not fit it after all; I should just explain, that sadly, like so many of my projects, it has stalled far longer than it should have. That said, even I should be able to manufacture something that looks like the purpose -built mount.
Thinking about it, I may just push this one up the list a bit, after I’ve finished my Berlin MUNGA.
All hail to Armorama - again(!)
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