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Rubicon Models:
An upcoming new project for our US generals... the M55 Machine Gun Trailer Mount.

During WW2, the M45 turret was mounted on two specific systems; the M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage and the M51 Multiple Machine Gun Carriage.

When mounted on the M20 Trailer, it was known as the M55 Machine Gun Trailer Mount, but this system had not finished testing before the cessation of hostilities. M51s were withdrawn from service by the end of World War II in favour of the M55.

During the Korean War, the M55 and M16 saw extensive combat, and lessons learned in Korea led to the conversion of an additional 1,200 M3 half-tracks into the M16A1 variant by adding an M45 turret. These can be identified by the lack of fold-down armour and rear troop door on the crew compartment and were often fitted with the roller front bumper instead of the winch bumper fitted to all M16s. In 1954 an additional modification was made to roughly 700 M16 MGMCs, adding the rear troop door and bolting the fold-down armour in the up position. This modification became known as the M16A2 MGMC.

The M55 received a new, more powerful generator in the 1960s and served through the Vietnam War, usually mounted in the back of an M35 2.5 ton or M54 5-ton truck.


















Enjoy!
;)

RFT:
Looks great.

Will there be a crewman for the gun carriage?

thunderplunk:
Very nice! I sense an M16 MGMC conversion in the future...

Rubicon Models:
By popular requests, we had to do an M16 MGMC!

The M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage (MGMC), nicknamed the "Meat Chopper", was an American self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon built during WW2. It was equipped with four 0.5 inch M2 Browning machine guns in an M45 Quadmount. 2,700 were produced by White Motor Company from May 43 to Mar 44, with 568 M13 MGMCs and 109 T10 half-tracks being converted into M16s as well.

The M16 was famous for its effectiveness against low-flying aircraft and infantry, making it extremely popular with soldiers.  In the Korean War, it was relegated primarily to the ground-support role, being put out of service in the U.S. Army in 1954.












Enjoy!
;)

elias.tibbs:
I’m really liking this. A fully plastic version would have been nicer, but I’d rather a better quality hybrid kit than the current WLG ones.

Question if have is what are you going to do for the barrels? They’re a nightmare to keep straight on the WLG one.

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