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Hailing from Amstedam living in West Friesland (the Netherlands)
A type of German Navy rangefinder in a armourd dome and the small armourd lookout .
As used for the Heavy coastal batteries on the atlantikwall,
some where on a concrete tower and other on the roof of a special type of bunker .
Dome [...]
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The Battle of Lang Vei began on the evening of 6 February 1968 and concluded during the early hours of 7 February, in Quảng Trị Province, South Vietnam. Towards the end of 1967 the 198th Tank Battalion, People's Army of Vietnam [...]
The bunker ,
Completely made from Apoxie sculpt,
This will be only a third of the entire bunker
(complete bunker aprox 51+ cm in 1/35 scale )
Have made this R650 type before, but without the war damage.
See picture .
The gun is schratsbuild,
Only found a hand full of drawings of the [...]
Build for a fellow modeler,
These were used on the west, Italian and eastern front,
They came like this or on a wooden two story construction and encased in reinforced concrete (steel box version ) .
Panther turrets were converted into bunkers ever since late [...]
