Spalah presents a kit of the MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun and also a set of figures for its crew.
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/spalah-mt-12-rapira-and-crew
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/spalah-mt-12-rapira-and-crew
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Damn… now that almost finished my scratchbuild.
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Can be pulled by the MTLB.
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Wow! I’ve never built anything newer than WW2. This may change that. I love this gun and crew set. They look fantastic.
I’d like to build a small dio of a frontline Ukrainian gun position. This set in a sandbag ringed emplacement, a small trench and another smaller sandbag emplacement with an 12.7mm NSV on tripod with optic for long range mg and limited indirect protection.
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That’s the way it goes. I spent 2 years scratchign out a Marder I and finished right before both Panda and Tamiya released theirs in plastic.
The same thing will happen if I decide to build a 7,5 cm PaK 40 auf Zugkraftwagen Somua MCG S-307(f).
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I was just thinking that: something at long last to be pulled by my MTLB!
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What model should I start scratchbuilding to please some of you when it will be released in styrene? 
Maybe a M2 Amphibian for both Bundeswehr and British Army?
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Would love to get one of these but with an East German crew!
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I wasn’t almost finished, but I did start a scratch build a couple of years ago based on another gun. Good to see this one out. I was copying a photo of one being towed by a Kamaz early on in the Ukriane conflict. (when the talking heads said there would be no invasion)
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NVA gun crew would be the hardest part.
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At least Hornet makes the heads.
I have a couple NVA figures from D-Day miniatures and an old set of ICM I think some where in my stash
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Richard, I’m not too sure of the number of soldiers required for this piece, but these might be a starting point; obviously swap for Hornet Heads, and thereafter modify uniforms as per my efforts re the East Germans I did some time ago on my RMP Munga dio. Relatively straightforward I should think, although that is, I admit, supposition:
Ammo replacement a necessity too I should think.
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Yes that’s a great idea Brian. And I remember your Munga project very well!
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And mounted on, too, don’t forget. There are images of the gun on top of an MT-LB out there, HP(?) put one in the thread on modelling the Ukraine war.
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Two 1/35 resin/3D kits are available of the 7.5cm Pak40 MCG Somua - from KM Model and Brach. The Brach kit is fantastic (from photos the KM kit not quite so much) so no need to scratchbuild it.
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A good GDR NVA video on the MT-12.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVcWW0j9bi0
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Yes what’s great video of this thing! That barrel is SO long. The kits barrel looks shorter to me for some reason. Was it made with different lengths??
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I was unaware that anybody still used direct fire artillery. It seems so 60 years ago.
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Started fielding in 1970.
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