As the war went on, the German
tanks gained more and more weight. One big problem besides this fact was that
the Germans know only one direction: back home. As they lost more and more
battles, they needed vehicles for the tank recovery. At the beginning they
could do it with a Famo, but as the Tiger saw action, you already needed 3 Famo
for one Tiger. Not very efficiency! Under bad circumstances you needed two
Panthers, oh sorry two Bergepanthers, it was not allowed to use fighting tanks
for recovery. With the Jagdtiger and the Kingtiger it got much worst. And yes
these tanks needed a much more help, as they were not as reliable as the later
Panther.
For the transport
of the Moeser Karl the German Army used a special trailer, from a company
called Culemeyer. First designed to bring trains to locations without rails,
with an additional plate you could use them for tanks as well.
So here is my
model of such a Culemeyer trailer. I designed the version with the 6
axis.
Here you can find
some more information about this trailer:
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| Culemeyer parts in 1/144 |
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| the set ready to load |
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| Culemeyer with Jagdtiger |
As I designed everything with 3D, I can offer you to order online at Shapeways your own model.
