1/144 Mercedes 4500 DL 22 German fire turntable ladder 31/52

During World War II, the German fire brigades became part of the so called "Feuerschutzpolizei". The Germans created standardized vehicles and described what equipment and what functionality had been needed. For the rescue service they standardized two types of turntable ladders.
First the DL 17; a fire engine with some equipment and a ladder of 17 m length.
The second truck was a fire engine with a ladder of 22 m length.
I have some trucks from the "Feuerschutzpolizei" but a turntable ladder? I never saw one in the scale 1/144. Very soon I found out why; the design of the ladder was not so easy, the ladder had four parts and with the requirements from Shapeways for a successful print it took several attempts to find a design what is close to the original and the print requirements. So here is my German Drehleiter DL 22. The number 22 indicates the maximum length of the ladder, here 22 meters.

Here the first previews of my latest 1/144 design:

Mercedes DL 22 Feuerschutzpolizei

Mercedes DL 22 Feuerschutzpolizei

Mercedes DL 22 Feuerschutzpolizei

On Youtube you can find two short videos:

If you are interested in more technical details, so please check this German page:

http://zifft.de/mercedes-2/dl-22.html

1/144 Faun L 1500 D987 heavy truck for the Wehrmacht 30/52

After some Kriegsmarine designs I am back with a very rare German truck. The Faun is really rare, in total only two units had been built.

Both saw action during WWII, but mostly only in Germany where they had been used for transport jobs between factories. One truck survived the war and was used by an East German company until the late 70s.

The idea for this truck came from one of my friends who collects stuff in the scale 1/120. The change from 1/144 to 1/120 is not such a big challenge. So here some first impressions from the truck. It will come together with my 3 axis trailer.

1/144 Faun L 1500 D987

1/144 Faun L 1500 D987

1/144 Faun L 1500 D987

And some evenings later I am able to present the final version, for the first print I will do it of course in 1/144.

new 1/144 models published 29/52

Some days ago I published several new designs on my Shapeways Account Panzerfabrik 144. 

It has been a while that I had published new models but my job and my garden left me not so much time.

But now I have painted them, took pictures and now I can offer them.

So, here what new designs I can offer you for your 1/144 world:

Most new designs are based on the Mercedes 4500 S and A.

Mercedes produced this truck in several variants.

- Mercedes Maultier with Einheits-Cabin

- Mercedes 4500 S as a train truck

- Mercedes 4500 double pack, two Maultier trucks but with different cabins

- Mercedes Maultier with steel cabin

- Mercedes 4500 truck

- Culemeyer 8 axis version to transport any heavy German tank

- Culemeyer 2 axis, short version

- Opel Blitz with AA flak and armored cabin

- 12.8 cm Flak on Reichsbahn platform car

- Faun tank transport set, tractor and trailer in one set

- Barack for Flak crew, redesign based on original plans from the Luftwaffe

- Italian bunker, many of these bunkers are still existing today

But my highlight is a very special design where I tried something new: a horse in 1/144. It took very Long, but now a have a working design, so that as a first model I present the German Field Bakkery  together with two horses. The Trailer Comes with Standard rubber wheels, the Wehrmacht used this trailer with horses or drawn by trucks.

and for all Kriegsmarine fans I created some very interesting designs:

- Infanterietransporter, a small landing craft, used by Germany and Finnland

- Sprengboot Tornado, a very unknown design

- Marinefährprahm Type DM, a German landing craft designed to lay Sea mines

Heavy Kingtiger transport with Kässbohrer plattform trailer 28/52

Here some combinations of my Kässbohrer trailer together with a King Tiger.
The Tractor changed on the pictures. The trailers belonged to the German Reichsbahn and had been borrowed from the Wehrmacht as at the beginning they had no own trailers for the heavy tanks.

1/ 144 Faun with King Tiger

1/144 double pack, two Famos with one King Tiger

1/144 even for two Famos a King Tiger would be a hard job

1/144 German Landing group 27/52

Before I will present the next new designs I took pictures of my today existing German Kriegsmarine designs. Most of them are Landungsboote, meaning to bring staff and tanks / trucks on land.

Today I present you some of my smaller vessel from the German Kriegsmarine.

The armada is built by 

- 2 Infanterietransporter

- Pionierlandungsboot 39 

1/144 Sturmmörser 28 cm 38 (D) 26 / 52

Normally I do not build or collect something what do not saw any action during WWII. But no rule without exceptions. The Sturmmörser is such an exception. Somehow I liked it and the price for the unassembled kit was okay.
So here my Sturmmörser 28 cm 38D.

1/144 Sturmmörser

1/144 Sturmmörser

1/144 Tornado Sprengboot 25/52

The Tornado Sprengboot was one of the very desperite Trials to Change everything -  when it was already too late.
As far as I could find out, there was at least one prototype which was used for Trails. When the Russians came closer, the Germans Blow up everything.

The design is very simple, the swimmer are from the Ju 52, the engine is from the V1.

More About the Concept you can find : Wikipedia