funny picture

[Weasel]

Found this on the web and thought it was pretty funny:

[Vesku]

Nice picture but what the kitten is doing there :)

[Weasel]

Well if it is Stalingrad (which it isn't, this looks about 1940) I would say he is going to be supper in about 4 months!

[Vesku]

LOL Not much meat in that one :)

[Stonefire]

When we are looking af MotorBikes I like to see this in the OOB of steel panthes. the Danish Nimbus MB with a 20mm Madsen MG.

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/grabber/4837558

A little bagground:
The Nimbus was an aircooled, four cylinder motorbike of 750 ccm with 21 hp.The four cylinders were in a row parallel with the bikes length, and it had shaft drive. It was, alongside with BMW, the first motorbike with telescopic forks. The framework wasn't tube, but flat steel bars, riveted together. Topspeed was around 85 km/t with sidecar. The 20mm Madsen machinegun was a scaled up 8mm Madsen machine gun. The 8mm Madsen was developed in the 1890s, and adopted by the Danish army in 1903. It was one of the very first light machineguns, and at the same time very reliable. No one has ever used the same system as in the Madsen. The Madsen had a unique firing system and was rather expensive to make. Like the Nimbus, there were some national pride connected to it.

The gun was attached to the bike, it was in place of the sidecar. It wasn't possible to shoot while driving, so the Danes adopted a hit and run tactic. It was possible to take of the gun, and use it directly from the ground. On the 9th of April most shooting was from the motorbike while stationary beside the road.

The Danish army fought German armored cars and PzKpfw 1 from motorbikes armed with a 20 mm Madsen machinegun on the morning of the 9th of April 1940. The fighting began at 4 o'clock in the morning that day, and at around 8am it was over. The Danes lost 13 men in the fighting, the Germans lost a total of 13 armored cars and two PzKpfw 1 tanks

[pjbandit2003]

Yea and I would also like to see that MC added to the OOB. Scout MC with detachable attack kitten.
:kill:

[Weasel]

When we are looking af MotorBikes I like to see this in the OOB of steel panthes. the Danish Nimbus MB with a 20mm Madsen MG.

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/grabber/4837558

A little bagground:
The Nimbus was an aircooled, four cylinder motorbike of 750 ccm with 21 hp.The four cylinders were in a row parallel with the bikes length, and it had shaft drive. It was, alongside with BMW, the first motorbike with telescopic forks. The framework wasn't tube, but flat steel bars, riveted together. Topspeed was around 85 km/t with sidecar. The 20mm Madsen machinegun was a scaled up 8mm Madsen machine gun. The 8mm Madsen was developed in the 1890s, and adopted by the Danish army in 1903. It was one of the very first light machineguns, and at the same time very reliable. No one has ever used the same system as in the Madsen. The Madsen had a unique firing system and was rather expensive to make. Like the Nimbus, there were some national pride connected to it.

The gun was attached to the bike, it was in place of the sidecar. It wasn't possible to shoot while driving, so the Danes adopted a hit and run tactic. It was possible to take of the gun, and use it directly from the ground. On the 9th of April most shooting was from the motorbike while stationary beside the road.

The Danish army fought German armored cars and PzKpfw 1 from motorbikes armed with a 20 mm Madsen machinegun on the morning of the 9th of April 1940. The fighting began at 4 o'clock in the morning that day, and at around 8am it was over. The Danes lost 13 men in the fighting, the Germans lost a total of 13 armored cars and two PzKpfw 1 tanks

Cool, you should bring it up to the shrapnel guys.

[Weasel]

Yea and I would also like to see that MC added to the OOB. Scout MC with detachable attack kitten.
:kill:

:laughing:

[Greybeard]

Hello Jesper..

James Bond would be sooo jealous.. :cool2:

Cheers!
Greybeard

[Cross]

Hi Jesper,

I would also like to see more motorcycle sidecars available in the OOB. These were quite common vehicles in many armies, particularly in the early war.

I’ve been researching the British use of motorcycles in WWII. Which is where my interest lies. It’s usually the German bikes that get all the attention, but Britain built approx. 400,000 military motorcycles during WWII. Making the British Army more ‘motorcyclized’ than the German Army.

I guess one thing SPCamo would ask, is how many of a particular type were made/used in the Danish/British Army?

There’s some rare kit that has made it into the SP OOB, but they usually (sensibly) avoid making the rare stuff available.

I did come across a site on the Nimbus Model C

http://www.armyvehicles.dk/nimbusmc.htm

regards,