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DasPanzer
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SG 43 question

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Do you think that a T-34/85 would tow the SG43 machine gun when the infantry were riding the tanks into battle? I’m looking at a set of Soviet soldiers by joytoy and it includes the machine gun on wheels and I wanted to add these to my tank


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Probably not tow, but secured on the engine deck.............most definitely.
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In my opinion that MG will look ridiculously too small when towed, but can be OK when carried. It is not only a small gun, but also in 1/18 scale, so it will be very noticeable there is something wrong when towed.

If you want to tow a MG, maybe a better idea would be a maxim MG. A friend of mine did this one for me:
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Herr @Hermanm here is the link of what you are requesting: https://surveillanceport.com/2021/02/10 ... -infantry/
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This is the set that Daspanzer posted a link to in his T34 thread Herman, https://www.ebay.com/itm/194004119425

My only reservation would be that the set is in 1/18 which is maybe not so bad for the figures but the gun would look very small compared to the tank especially if it's being towed ??? :thumbup:

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You beat me to it Rad :haha: :thumbup:
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Thanks fellas, but the link in Mr Panzers thread would not activate...........both of yours did ??
HL JAGDPANTHER,HL TIGER 1,HL PzIII MUNITIONSCHLEPPER, HL KT OCTOPUS,HL PANTHER ZU-FUSS,HL STuG III,HL T34/85 BEDSPRING,
HL PZIV MALTA,MATORRO JAGDTIGER,HL F05 TIGER,TAMIYA KT,HL PANTHERDOZER,HL EARLY PANTHER G,TAIGEN/RAMINATOR T34/76,
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That's strange Herman :problem: I just copied and pasted the link from his post, at least you can see it now :thumbup:

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Would the figures match the winter theme of my T-34? Not sure if the had winter uniforms. And thank you guys for helping with the sg-43. I just wasn’t sure


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