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The Atlantic WWII Soviet Union Maxim gun is way too big for 1/72nd scale and I have a lot of the Esci ones, in both hard and soft plastic. So the Atlantic ones have been re-assigned to other uses. Here is one that is being used as the basis for a mountain gun. In the days before air support and helicopters being all that common, particularly at high altitudes, the mountain gun was important for use in mountains and other places where conventional artillery was too heavy.
This is part of my project to clean out the spares box and use up as many bits as possible to create a few useful items.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
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