Skoda 100 mm vz. M1914/19 Howitzer
Comments
18 30 July 2020, 18:50
Dmitry MelnikovThank you mates! This is a very bad source kit! Many details of the design are missing, many are made incorrectly. I had to change most of the elements and add new ones) I want to build all variants of the 100 mm Skoda howitzer from IBG, but I can't decide yet. Putting these kits in order is not easy!
7 August 2020, 16:07
Lukasz PoradowskiWell done model. There is loads of items missing from the kit, looks like for future releases IBG added extra sprue (sprue I) to fix obvious issues. Shame IBG didn't notice that the most characteristic part of this howitzer, so position change handle at the rear, is not in the kit. To complete list of missing things: no flap to close visor in the front shield, lack of horizontal adjustment mechanism on the left side of the howitzer, no sight assembly, numerous missing rivets, lack of clasps and features for holding gun accessories like ramrod, cleaning rod, etc.
20 June 2021, 22:37
Dmitry MelnikovThank you Lukas! I fully agree with your opinion about this IBG model. This is probably the worst model of an artillery piece that is currently on sale. The additions made by IBG are minimal and cannot make the model better.
21 June 2021, 14:27
Album info
100mm vz. 14 Howitzer was produced for the Austro-Hungarian army from 1914. Production of its modernized version vz. 14/19 started after the end of World War I and gaining independence by Czechoslovakia. The Howitzer was sold to many countries: Poland, Italy, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Greece. During the World War II it was used by Polish Army in September 1939, Italian Army in all theaters of war, from North Africa to Soviet Union and also by Wehrmacht under the designation LeFH 14/19 (t), 10cm LeFH 14/19 (i) or 10cm LeFH 14/19 (p).
This is the 1/35th scale IBG-models kit. Many had to modify or do on their own. It was painted with Tamiya acrylics and weathered with filters of enamels and oils.
