1/144 Pioniersicherungsboot

It took a bit time, but this week I finished my work on a very special and rare model.

A German Pioniersicherungsboot

There is not so much known about this river gun boat, according to some books only two have been built. They were planed by end of the war and came too late to change anything or even to get produced in bigger numbers.

On the internet I found a drawing and an old picture of one of the river boats in action.

If you want to learn a bit more about the history of the original, please look here:

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Waffen/Pioniersicherungsboot.htm

Here you will find the only existing picture of the Pioniersicherungsboot in action.

So I designed the Pioniersicherungsboot with the drawing from the internet and decided to go with the drilling instead with the Vierlingsflak. Some paint and the Pioniersicherungsboot could start for the first mission.

Pioniersicherungsboot in 1/144

Pioniersicherungsboot in 1/144

Pioniersicherungsboot in 1/144

Pioniersicherungsboot in 1/144

Pioniersicherungsboot in 1/144

Pioniersicherungsboot in 1/144

Pioniersicherungsboot in 1/144

Pioniersicherungsboot in 1/144

Oil drum trailer for German tanks

I had designed this small trailer some years ago, I was never happy what came out of the printers. While discussing with a friend I remembered this oil drum trailer.
After less than 1 hour I had a new and much better design. Now I like my small trailer.
The Wehrmacht used these trailers with one or with two oil drums to extend the range of their tanks.

oil drum trailer in 1/144

Panzer II with oil drum trailer

Panzer II with oil drum trailer

If you want to purchase a set of two trailers, you can use this link.

Tigertransport in 1/144 with Kaelble truck and Culemeyer trailer

Here I present the complete Set!
To transport the heavy German Tigers, the Wehrmacht used Kaelble trucks with Culemeyer trialers.
The Kaelble was developed and built mainly for the Reichsbahn, but later the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht took over some of them.

Meanwhile I got the Kaelble printed and partly painted. Okay they were finished - I thought and then I took some pictures yesterday and saw on the pictures still some spots with missing or wron paint. So I have to rework everything again.

But anyway, from my wife I learned, that I could make a movie with the pcitures I took.

Kaelble tractor late version

So after some tests I made my first video.

It will be not the final version but I like it and want to show you my first video.

the stars of the fist movie

and here the movie with a 360° view of the tank transport

The Kaelble is now for sale at Shapeways, the trailer in the 2 axis version as well

Kaelble Z6V2A

set of two 2-axis trailer

complete set

Renault AHN in German service - two new trucks coming soon

Today I just finalized the work on two French trucks which were widely used by the German Wehrmacht.

Renault developed these trucks for the French army. But while the French lost the war and Germany occupied most of France, the Germans pressed Renault to continue production of trucks for the Wehrmacht. These trucks saw action on all theaters, only from Africa I saw no pictures.

I designed two versions, a regular truck and the ambulance version.

I might add later two special versions, the Renault with „Holzvergaser“ and a fire engine. For the last one I need some more information.

Today I present a preview, these trucks will be ready to order by end of may.

Renault AHN in 1/144

Renault AHN Ambulance in 1/144

Inside The Tanks: The Sturmtiger - World of Tanks

Last week I found while searching for something different these videos:
Inside the tanks......, they are on youtube and show the internal of several tanks.
So maybe you would like to get an impression of how it looks inside.

inside the Sturmtiger

M32 ARV US Army

If you follow my Blog, you know that I love Recovery tanks and trucks.

As I have built several German ARV, I thought I should build an American ARV.

With the new 1/144 US Army Vehicles Set from Revell you get for a good price a small kit of a Sherman tank. so what else is needed to build the M32 ARV?

First of all we need a new turret and some new boxes, the crane and some small parts.

After printing it with Shapeways I got all parts I needed to built the tank.

Here is the final tank:

I had to add some more details and the gun on the front of the tank.

So here some more pictures of the final version:

Opel Blitz Kraftzugspritze 8 Feuerschutzpolizei light fire truck

When the Nazis took over the German government, they already planned ahead for a future war. Therefore they tried to standardize all German fire brigades with the same trucks and equipment. Instead of the fire brigades they came under the control and command of the Feuerschutzpolizei or the Luftwaffe. All trucks of the Feuerschutzpolizei got a Tannengruen paint (dark green).
The Kraftzugspritze KzS 8 was a small unit with enough space for the complete group and a pump inside the trailer The engine for the pump was a small Volkswagen engine. 
I decided to go with the Feuerschutzpolizei, as this gives me a reason to paint a green truck.
For the trailer there were several different solutions, why I designed two of them.

Kraftzugspritze 8 with trailer

Kraftzugspritze 8 front view

Kraftzugspritze 8

Kraftzugspritze 8 with second trailer