Culemeyer a very spezial tank Transporter in 1/144

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: 

Johann Culemeyer

trailer and trailer

Johann Culemeyer in english

pictures from Google

Culemeyer parts in 1/144

the set ready to load

Culemeyer with Jagdtiger

As I designed everything with 3D, I can offer you to order online at Shapeways your own model.

Neger German one man Submarine in 1-144 small diorama

Today I present a small diorama with my two German submarines. These type of submarine was called Neger, they were one of the German "Secret Weapons" with which the war should have won.
For technical clearance, the Neger was not really a submarine, as they could not dive. They simply swam close on the water surface. Besides this technical fact, they were very dangerous for the soldiers, a lot of them never returned.
One of the first mission happened at the Anzio beaches in Italy where they should destroy the American / British landing fleet.

The submarines are 3D printed and painted in black. Most pictures show this color for them.
The rest of the Diorama is really handmade.

T-34 with Mine cleaner

Today I introduce my latest version of the Russian T 34.
The Russian produced some T-34 with mine cleaners. There they had two different versions.
As I do not found a sketch I had to take the dimensions from the some pictures I found on the web.
So here is my T 34 with mine cleaner.
The mine cleaner is a 3D product.

T 34 with mine cleaner

T 34 with mine cleaner

T 34 with mine cleaner

T 34 with mine cleaner

 And here some pictures from original T-34 which I found on the internet.

tank trailer for German airfield

I finished today the work on my new tank trailer. I'm not 110 % satisfied as there are some details I will change for the next time. And yes my wheels should get better, I know, but ! I work on this to improve my drawing skills with my 3D program.
The trailer has no existing Original, but as the Germans used what ever they found, so it is fine for me.

the tank truck is from Panzer Depot

Here you see the structure from the printing.

new Bunkers in the scale 1/144

This week I got a very nice shipment from Prague.
From the Czech company called Fort Models I bought some Bunkers.
They are all from the Czechoslovakia Border protection what they built during 1935 -01938.
On some of these Bunkers the Germans trained later their raid for the Belgium Bunkers at Eben Emael. For more information see here.

LO vz. 37 type C-180

LO vz. 37 type C-180

LO vz. 37 type C2

LO vz. 37 type C2

K-S-31 U Besidky

K-S-31 U Besidky

Okay, the last Bunker is in the scale 1/230, but I like him as well and the quality is outstanding. All Bunkers are made out of porcelain.

Widerstandsnest 28 in Bernières-sur-Mer Bunker R 600 with 5 kwk

At the Atlantic coast you can find a lot of German Bunkers. Normally they belong to one of the Regelbauten, a list of standazid types of Bunkers. Not so in Bernières-sur-Mer. Here we find a special combination of two  Regelbauten. This Bunker was armed with a 5 cm Kwk gun. The Bunker is located on the beach, directly on the boulevard of Bernières-sur-Mer. This section of the beach was attacked by the Canadian and British troops.
On D-Day 1944 the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division landed at this spot. After some hours of fighting they liberated Bernieres-sur-Mer.

My diorama shows the Bunker with the 5 kwk gun, some days before the Invasion. The obstacles are wrong, mostly you could find them in the Nederlands, but I added them as otherwise I had the feeling, the diorama would look so empty. The Kuebelwagen is from Wargames South (link) and the 5 kwk gun comes from CDG (link), a famous producer of 3D printed tanks and accessorizes. 

R600 with 5 kwk

The bunker itself was designed by myself and printed in with a 3D printer. To safe material I made the top separate and glued it later. So it was no problem to install the gun inside the Bunker. The officers and the crew are all from the German railway gun Leopold from Dragon.

Here some interesting links with pictures from the Original which I found:

http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/862/Bunker-Wiederstandsnest-27.htm

http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/14139/Widerstandsnest-28-Berni%E8res-sur-Mer.htm

http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/14141/Widerstandsnest-38-Saint-C%F4me-de-Fresn%E9.htm

Pionierpanzer III in 1/144

Here I show you my latest tank, a German Pioniertank on basis of the Panzer III.
It is like the British and American Engineering tanks. The main tank was from the F-Toys battle tank set and I added some parts I designed with Shapeways.
There are not that may pictures from the Pionierpanzer, so you can not do that much wrong.