Panther turret in Italy

As all my stuff is still on its way to me, I will present in the next weeks some of my older work.
Let us start with my Panther turret on a small display.
The basement is a Gypsum part where I engraved the trench and the entrance to my tank turret. 

Back to work

It took a bit time, but now I´m back to work. Since January the first we live again in Switzerland. So at Christmas we had to say Goodbye to California, where we spent three beautiful years.
Switzerland welcomes me with a lot of rain, cold wind and maybe very soon with the first snow for this year.
As soon as my tanks and all tools arrive I will start publishing again my work. In the time inbetween I will present you some of my older work.

Best place to store and present my tanks - tank shelf for my 1/144 tanks

Anyway if you collect tanks, ships,or airplanes, one question we all have! 
What is the best solution to store your collection and to present it. 
Over the years I found some nice boxes, where I was able to store my tanks. For the dioramas I use shoe boxes. So everything is fine. Or not? Actually I felt more and more the need to present at least some of my tanks. But everything I found so far was ether to expensive or to small. From Daiso, a Japanese Store I got some nice displays, but there I could store only 5 or maximum 10 tanks.
By an accident I found the solution for my problem. Ebay, or better Dennis!
He is the solution to all my problems (regarding to the storage problem :-) )
He sells hand made shelves via Ebay, and right now as I got my first one, I can say, the quality is extremely good and even much more important, the shelf has exactly the dimensions I wanted to have. That is no wonder, as Dennis is specialized in custom orders, built to any buyers specification. Any scale or any size, he can do it.
In one row I can easy present 9 up to 10 tanks and with 13 rows it will keep up to `30 tanks.
So no wonder I bought some more.
For all who are interested in the beautiful work from Dennis, here is his ebay name and his actions:


http://www.ebay.com/usr/doubledoor


http://www.ebay.com/itm/331054843257?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Normally I do not do any promotion and I will get nothing from Dennis for telling you about his perfect shelves. But as this is good quality and a more than fair price, you should give him a chance and check his auctions on Ebay.

Scammel tank transporter

My Scammel is a version I bought last year in Great Britain. The producer is GraMa models. 
It took me quite a long time to get the set done, first of all, the quality of the wheels where not that good and then the there was one wheel missing. Now I got a new wheel from GraMa and finished the set in the version for the European Theater.

some new 1/144 vehicles

Nothing big today, as I still work on some dioramas. But I show some of my new 3D products, which I finished over the weekend.

The trailer is for a new diorama which I still plan, the Kommandogereat will see action very soon together with some 8.8 Flak. The Krupp just got assembled and painted, I have him from Wargames South ( www.wargames-south.com) and is already several years old.

Famo with crane

There are several versions of the Famo with crane. First of all, the version with the Bilstein crane and then of course the version with the more heavier 10 ton crane. But besides these two versions, there were several field modifications. So today I can present another field version of a Famo with an 6 ton crane. 
This crane saw action with the 27. Panzerdivision in Southeast-North Russia. There the German mechanics built up this crane and used it for maintenance and tank recovery. 
My crane is build up with some 3D parts which should have been for something total different. But once printed, I saw that the design would not work in the way I thought, so I came up with combining several parts I had on my table and created this very special Famo.

Of course, everything I wrote about a real existing Famo with this crane is nonsense, but anyway I like my version.

Panther mit Raeumschaufel, Panther with Dozer

By end of the war, Hitler allowed to modify some tanks for a special job. They had to clean the streets. Okay, maybe cleaning is not the right word :-) they had to remove obstacles and tons of the ruins on the streets. I read that old unused Panzer III and Panzer IV should have been used, but in fact, I found pictures of a Panther.
So I designed the Dozer and added it to a F-Toys / Dragon Panther. As I could not find the original turret, I added the one from my latest F-Toys Panther.

Once I find the original turret again, I will change the opening for the gun.