You might be asking .... why is a post war Russian AT-T heavy duty tractor towing a WWII German Rheinmetall K44 artillery piece?

This needs a little explaining, so I used my imagination and fabricated a totally fictitious scenario that is not based on an actual event.

The problem is that the Russian AT-T heavy duty tractor is a post war (cold war) vehicle, and the K44 is a late WWII German artillery piece.

The only story I could think of to explain this combination was to call it a captured German cannon being towed to the Russian Artillery Museum in St. Petersburg, to be displayed as a war trophy.

Hey guys, It's one of those ...... "It coulda happened things" .....but that only sounds reasonable if you have had a few shots of Vodka.


My first idea was to build a Russian Voroshilovets artillery tractor towing a B4 artillery piece. After thinking long and hard about that project, I talked myself out of it. Finding suitable track for that tractor and howitzer was the big problem.I gotta work on a solution for that.

Then I discovered the Russian AT-T tractor, which could use the T-34 lower chassis, (not perfectly accurate), but it looked close enough for me, and it would be a lot simpler and easier to do than scratch building the entire model. I considered building the ML 20 as a towed artillery piece until I ran across the Rheinmetall 12.8cm K44 L/55. That's it ..... I was hooked.

The tractor was an easy build. I have two MSN T-34s and used the bottom half of one of them for this project. All I had to do was build the upper body.

Here is what I have so far. Just a little more detail clean up and it's gonna get a Russian armor green paint job (what else?). The cannon will probably get panzer grey.