Monday, 2 November 2020

20mm Argentine Rasit Radar System Part 1

 The Rasit radar system was deployed by the Argentinians during the conflict, its quite an effective ground surveillance radar that can detect a walking man at 14 miles. The Argentinians deployed one on Longdon at the eastern end of the feature, "Fly Half" in Hugh Pike's orders. This could have been a dramatic force multiplier for the Argentinians but because they were under the impression that the British had a radar locating system and could rapidly call in artillery they decided to switch it off. 




There isn't one available that I could find so it was scratch building from plasticard and plastruct. The crewman will be a converted Liberation figure. The radar and crewman are separate and are going to be mounted on a couple of 2p pieces.

Some of the bits 😉


The Rasit assembled.



Next up is the Operator base and continue with the radar.

Dougie




4 comments:

  1. I have one of the twin 35mm from Butler they are a little rough but I’ll be replacing the more obvious bits, this will be up next after the rasit. The Panhard I’ll be using is available as a plastic kit 😉

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  2. Great skill in scratch building, I love how this project is coming along.

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