It is in the nature of the game that you're always going to find something that's perfect for your games...almost. And when you're as cheap as I am, you know you can't get exactly what you're looking for. Thus, the need for conversions. Plus, it's kinda fun to point to something and say "I converted that myself". I think it helps lend a sense of uniqueness to any game table.
This gun started life as a cheap plastic gun in a playset I found in a dollar store at
Billings Bridge mall in Ottawa. The set came with twenty sky blue plastic Legion E'tranger
figures (28mm) (more about them in a bit), thirty green plastic WWII US GIs (20mm), a
quanset hut, sandbag walls, tank, armoured car, flag and flagpole. But the star of the package
was, without doubt, the gun.
I mean, nice big wheels, with spokes, in the "old fashioned way" and not WWII-style tires.
The only problem was the fact that it was, er, bright green...with a big red knob since it
"shot" little plastic shells. But a couple of clips, a little trimming, black primer,
then Americana 'Avacado' coverage and done!
I have a TSATF battery of these now and my friend Rudi Geudens in
Belgium liked the look of them so much I sent him a battery too. He's got them in operation
with his German colonial troops in the Afriborian campagin. As well the brilliant technicians
in his drydock are modifying a couple of them for use aboard ship. Stop by the
Afriborian Herald at the Universal General to
see how they're doing.
I've been converted! Here's the letter to prove it! [email protected]
Conversions