Review: Battlefront TAC 47mm Schneider (RO510)

Schneider 47mm gun on display at National Military Museum in Bucharest. Photo from https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun_antitanc_Schneider_calibru_47_mm_model_1936

History:
The Schneider 47mm gun was a French designed gun. Originally a batch of 160 were sold to Romania. The Romanians then built more under license in the Concordia factory in Ploesti. The guns were manufactured and used right through the war.

The anti-tank gun was light weight (628kgs) and therefore highly mobile. The gun shield was small but the wheels could be shifted to increase the effective size and coverage of the shield. The gun was fitted with a muzzle break and could fire a 2.3kg round.

Review:
The Battlefront blister (RO510) like normal contains everything you need for a platoon. In this case, 3 47mm Schneider guns and a command stand. The guns themselves are made up of the trail, the gun and the gun shield. Each gun comes with 4 crew. I am actually painting up 2 blisters worth and accidentally left 6 guns instead of 3 in the picture. Here is the blister contents:

RO510 contents. Ignore half the gun barrels.

The gun components had lots of flash and mould lines to clean up, even more than normal. However all components were well cast and free of damage. Being only 3 simple pieces they went together well. The crew were likewise free of damage and minimal cleanup saw these ready to go.

A blury photo of the assembled gun

I have chosen to only use 3 crew per gun. I have also decided not to glue the guns down on the base. This will allow me to use the same crew and bases for pak38s as a LW option. I will just swap them out as required.

As I mentioned above, the gun shield on the Schneider 47mm gun was small. It was augmented by shifting the wheels to increase the size of the shield. This is nice modelling aspect that Battlefront have chosen to model. It would have been awesome to also have them with the wheels attached for more variety. Still the models look great as it is.

Photos:
Here are the photos. I will post up some more photos when these are painted. I hope you enjoyed the review.

The first gun and crew assembled.

And then there were three.

The full platoon with command stand.