My collection of 1/144 models everything for tanks, ships and train lovers in the scale N and Dioramas in the scale 1/144
Most of my designs can be purchased here:
https://www.shapeways.com/shops/panzerfabrik_144
Transports by rail were during WWII one of the most important ways to bring everything what was needed to all fronts from the production plants inside Germany. As the Americans started bombing the German infrastructure, more and more Trains got directly attacked. Therefore the German Richsbahn looked for a easy to adopt solution to give the Trains a minimum of protection. This has nothing to do with the German Panzerzüge. The Wehrmacht was owner of the Panzerzüge, but here we talk about the Reichsbahn. So they came up with two types of armed trains. Both were eaysy to adapt and were based on existing material.
Geschützwagen type I with 2cm Flak
Geschützwagen I with 2 cm Falk
Geschützwagen type II with two concrete towers
Geschützwagen type II with two concrete towers
side view of the type II, on some pictures you can see them with Drillings instead of the 2 cm Flak
More American stuff on the way. Below you will see the first pictures from my new pontoon trailer. In general the US engineers used the Autocar tractor. So to complete the set, I have to build a new version of the Autocar tractor, for the pontoon set they had a big wooden box behind the cabin. So I will change the design a bit and you can build a complete Autocar set.
The design of the horse was a real challenge and took some time. But I like them, as with the German Wehrmacht thousands of them were used during the whole war.
1/144 German horse drawn carts
1/144 Diorama: Germanys last attack
1/144 horse set I
1/144 Diorama: Germanys last attack
1/144 set of 4 horses
1/144 set of 4 horses
In the next weeks I will create more sets, so if you have any Special wishes, let me know.
Sometimes everything goes wrong. That is often called Murphy's law. My Murphy's law has 14 wheels on each side and 3 misfailled prints. I have designed the Maus Special transport trailer several months ago. Design done, measurements checked and ordered from Shapeways and then I present it here. This time the first print was not correct, so I changed the design to inforce some weak areas and thought, now it will work. Print # 2 was better, but still far away from perfect or even acceptable. This time even some parts missed completly. So I changed the design again, partly redesigned most of the model new and waited for print numer # 3of the Maus trailer. By the way, the Reichsbahn had only two of this trailers, the Wehrmacht only two Maus prototypes. At this time I already had more then they ever had. So I redesigned the rest of the model, changed some parts with a complete new design and waited for print # 4.
some of my misprinted versions, none of them was perfect
1/144 Maus transporter
the final perfect print of the Maus transporter
Bottom view of the Maus transport waggon
1/144 Maus tansporter with the two end parts
front and end part of the Maus transporter are moveable
there was not so much space left, the Maus fits perfectly
a Picture with the Maus on the Plattform can be found here And here the a very nice built diorama, from where I got the Inspiration to build this plattform Trailer in the scale 1/144.
If you look for Information about Caterpillar grader you could read without a break for many months. But for their first (or one of the first designs) it is much harder to find enough Information to create the 3D file.
So I had to search a lot and then I found a really nice Video on YouTube and then some technical files which allowed me to design it in 1/144.
Because of the print restrictions from Shapeways I had to reduce the design to the maximum of details which they could print. So the model gives you a whole bunch of opportunities to pimp the model with several additional details.
1/144 Caterpillar Grader 12M
1/144 US grader 12 M, painting finished
Dumper and Cat 12M grader ready for the first action
1/144 US Engineering set
and here the youtube Video:
To give you some input about details which you could add, follow this report about the 1/35 Version from plusmodel
At the moment you will not find the grader in my Shapeways shop. Reason for that is, that I think about doing a complete set with several trucks from the US Army Engineers.
I recently finished an old design, which I had never finished as I had some mistakes inside the design. I wanted the DUKW not as a complete truck, instead I wanted the waterline design so that I could build Dioramas with the DUKW inside his main element, the sea.
1/144 DUKW unpainted
1/144 DUKW unpainted
1/144 DUKW unpainted
1/144 DUKW first time in water
Maybe I will design later the complete DUKW, meaning with wheels and the canvas and the crane.
