I’ve always wanted an SA-9 Gaskin for some reason. Probably because it was pretty common but I’ve
always liked the vehicle. When I was a
kid (and had no $$) I somehow was able to get a couple of bits of micro armour –
no idea where from – and I chose a Gaskin and a Scorpion. So I guess I’ve liked it for a long time!
Anyway… I wanted
to get an ACE Models SA-9, but they are literally as rare as hen’s teeth and
the 1 I found on Ebay (in years of looking) went for a lot more than I was
willing to pay. So the dream died a little
bit.
This has meant that whenever I put together a Soviet
force and want to add a mobile SAM I go for a SA-13 Gopher – as I have the
model. In my lists this is a bit more
expensive than a SA-9 – as it’s a better missile.
One day I was thinking about it, and I realised the SAM hammerhead
on the SA-13 is almost identical as on a SA-9.
Hang on a moment… I stopped
whatever it was I was doing and went over to my cabinet and grabbed a completed
Britannia BRDM-2 and the launcher hammerhead from the SA-13 and put them
together. Not an exact fit – but good
enough to game with. In fact, you may
not have noticed but I included this very slap-dash conversion in my last two
games:
Its the one with the red square around it!
So then I decided to do a new Britannia BRDM-2 – slightly
modified to better accept the ACE Models SA-13 launcher. Essentially all I did was add some plastic
card and filler to make the SA-13 launcher head fit slightly better:
You can see it needed a bit of green stuff work as well.
So here is how it might look with the launcher added:
So now it just needs to be painted and I have a dedicated
BRDM-2 body if I want to use a SA-9 Gaskin.
Of course this does not solve the problem if I want to run a force with
both a SA-9 and a SA-13, but I think the chances of wanting to do that are
pretty slim.
So I’m putting this down as a win – just a worry that it
took me something like 4 or 5 years to work it out! D’oh!!!!
Have fun
Richard
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