{"id":9772,"date":"2020-05-22T10:37:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T10:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=9772"},"modified":"2020-05-22T10:37:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T10:37:12","slug":"leonardo-gets-anti-tank-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2020\/05\/22\/leonardo-gets-anti-tank-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo Gets Anti-Tank Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a previous post, I showed the tanks inspired by Leonardo da Vinci that we plan to use in a <em>What a Tanker!<\/em> game in the near future.  It was planned for Historicon in July, but Pennsylvania won&#8217;t allow gatherings of that size by July.  As I continue to empty my box of primed and ready-to-paint figures, I came across these GW figures that are a combination of gifts from my buddy Greg and flea market finds.  I thought I would paint them up for possible use in the da Vinci <em>What a Tanker! <\/em>game as anti-tank guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_7639-1024x412.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9763\" \/><figcaption>Two wagons carrying anti-tank riflemen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I started by painting an old GW war wagon and a kit-bashed rat-powered vehicle.  I don&#8217;t know what forces, sides, factions, or races these belong to in Warhammer, but they are cool looking vehicles.  In the background are some Reaper Bones civilians watching the &#8220;parade&#8221; pass them by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_7640-1024x677.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9764\" \/><figcaption>A closer look at the war wagon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_7643-1024x622.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9766\" \/><figcaption>A view from the opposite side.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_7642-1024x827.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9765\" \/><figcaption>A closer view of the rat-powered wagon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not 100% sure that Don will be able to use these in the <em>What a Tanker! <\/em>game.  I figured these wagons could have the stats of an open-topped tank destroyer, like the ones built on Pz 38(t) chassis by the Germans in the early part of the war.  As <em>What a Tanker!<\/em> is focused on tanks, I don&#8217;t even know if there are rules to anti-tank rifles, but I&#8217;m sure someone has come up with home rules for them that we can leverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_7634-1024x662.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9770\" \/><figcaption>In the background of this work-in-progress picture you can see a fun looking, sci-fi toy cannon that my dad found in eBay.  I have three of them, and decided to repurpose one for da Vinci.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_7644-1024x542.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9767\" \/><figcaption>A work-in-progress shot of the repurposed tank, next to an original, green plastic one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I started making the cannon, because some of the figures I was painting looked like artillery crewmen to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_7645-1024x465.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9768\" \/><figcaption>The completed gun and the gun crew.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This gun should be like an 88mm or at least a 76mm in the game, but again, we&#8217;ll see how Don wants to stat things our or whether he wants to use them at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, I showed the tanks inspired by Leonardo da Vinci that we plan to use in a What a Tanker! game in the near future. It was planned for Historicon in July, but Pennsylvania won&#8217;t allow gatherings of that size by July. As I continue to empty my box of primed and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2020\/05\/22\/leonardo-gets-anti-tank-guns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leonardo Gets Anti-Tank Guns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}