Hi All,
Although I'm not a regular armour modeller I do dabble from time to time.
I'd recently completed the Revell boxing of Dragon's 1/35 Artilleriewagen and picked up this smaller scale version from a show with an idea in mind.
Working on the logic that 1/144 is not that far removed from 1/148 - British N Gauge - I fancied the idea of motorising one.
To this end, following some research on interweb, I concluded that a little Kato 0-4-0 chassis might fit in/under if I ignored the difference in wheelbase.
A chassis was ordered from Amazon for a very reasonable £12 - Very reasonable indeed if you consider that the chassis came with free p&p from Japan! With delivery only taking a week too.
Here's where we are before the off.
A couple of hours later, after removing the base of the Kommandowagen, removing all the internal bulkheads from the hull and some fairly extreme trimming down of the chassis we were here.
The chassis fits, just, but sits a little higher than the original height. I'll live with that.
Does it run though? Click on the picture....
20170803_001000 by Bonhoff1966, on Flickr
Could do with a longer piece of track and a better controller but you get the idea....
All part of a bigger plan.