new 1/144 horse sets for German Wehrmacht 43/52

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.

1/144 special transport trailer for Maus, German super tank 42/52

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

the complete set, Transporter and the Cando Maus

the final Version and painted

some Background Information About the Maus

Wikipedia (engl)

Wikipedia (dt)

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.

1/144 us engineer set with Caterpillar grader 41/52

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.

1/144 DUKW in waterline version 40/52

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.

8.8 Flak 41 in 1/144 39/52

In the next weeks I will offer again something nice. I have designed the 8.8 Flak 41, single version and the 8.8 Flak on the trailer Sonderanhänger 204.

                                     
source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/8.8_cm_Flak_41_1.jpg

Here some links with more information about the original one:

Wikipedia german

Wikipedia english

 walk arround

And here the first pictures from my prototype

1/144 Drehleiter for Feuerschutzpolizei 38/52

Here are the first Pictures of my brand new Mercedes DL 22 for the German Feuerschutzpolizei.
The Drehleiter 22 (DL22,  DL = Drehleiter with 22 meter length) was the most used Drehleiter at war times. There was a smaller version, the DL 17 on the Opel Blitz.
The Dreheiter DL 22 was built on the Mercedes 4500 chassis.

As it was used during the complete WW II, so you can paint it in nearly all colours:

• at the beginning they were painted in Feuerwehr Rot (red)
• then the fire brigades were attached to the German Police, so Tannengrün (dark green) was used (Feuerschutzpolizei)
• then the Wehrmacht grey was introduced
• later to the end of the war

Here is a list of all my fire brigades / engines you can buy from my Shapeways store:

Mercedes DL 22 in 1/144

Renault AHN fire engine

Opel Blitz LF8

Renault AHN double pack

Mercedes LF8

Trailer with pump

Vietnamese Tank Museum 37/ 52

As promised here some Pictures from the Tank Museum, which I visited during my vacation in Vietnam.
It is not a real Museum, it was more a Collection of any kind of US scrap they had found or catched. The intention was to show all visitors, look we besieged the US Army.
There were no Action to conserve the tanks, some of them even looked like everything possible had got stolen.

But in any case it was worth to stop there.