Hash Build: 76-mm regimental gun M1943 (OB-25)

Had a weekend away from construction and painting with the cook, but on coming home I stole away to the loft and started work on a gun for my Regimental Gun Company. Needed one 76L16 Infantry gun. I decided to go with the 1943 model, rather than the 1927 one, simply because I had more parts to construct this version. I used parts from a Matchbox PAK36 in the junk box and a cut down barrel from a Airfix 25 Pounder. The first version I made was just too long so I took it back apart and cut another 15mm off the barrel. I think this looks a little better although the breech still is too big.

The real Gun 76-mm regimental gun M1943 (OB-25) of which wiki states; a Soviet infantry support gun developed in 1943 by M. Yu. Tsiryulnikov at the ordnance plant in Motovilikha. The gun used a modernized barrel from the 76 mm regimental gun M1927 and the carriage from the 45 mm anti-tank gun M1942 (M-42). The gun was intended for destruction of light field fortifications and openly placed personnel by direct fire. HEAT shells gave it limited anti-armor capabilities. 76.2-mm regimental guns M1943 completely replaced M1927 guns in production that year and were built until the end of the German-Soviet War. Soon after the end of the war the production ceased due to insufficient range and muzzle velocity.