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Skyraider M2 .50 cal.s
monkybutt
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Posted: Monday, January 11, 2010 - 10:58 AM UTC
Hi. I was wondering if the M2 .50 cals on the A1-H Skyraider look like a normal infantry/armor mounted M2. This is beacuse I am looking to replace the ones that came in my Tamiya kit because they don't look very convincing. However, I cannot find a set of M2s specifically for the Skyraider so I would just but any old set and use those.
Any advice is appreciated!
Thanks,
Andrew
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Posted: Monday, January 11, 2010 - 11:09 AM UTC
Probably don't look like .50s' because they were 20 mm (0.79 in) M2 cannons.
monkybutt
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Posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 08:36 AM UTC
Ok thanks. Is there a company that makes brass/aluminum ones?
Thanks
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Posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 06:59 AM UTC
Unfortunately I can't help with pointers on aftermarket, but here's two good photos showing the cannon barrel, in case you have to or choose to make them youself -->
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/A-1_Skyraider_20mm_cannon.JPG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/A-1_Skyraider_bomb.JPG

They don't look that hard to fashion from metal tubing or syringe needles though.

Edit: Oh, what scale are we talking about? At least Aires seems to make resin Hispano 20mm cannons in both 1:72 (#7101) and 1:48 (4182), but they look like to be of a slightly different variant than on the Skyraider.

2nd edit: I did another search for just "cannon" on Aires' website, and found Colt mk.12 20mm cannons in 1:48 (#4181). The variant is a different one, but the barrels look closer to those on the A-1 pics: -pic-

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