Schwerer Panzerspähwagen (Artilleriewagen)

[Ernie]

Casting about for a simple but interesting project, I grabbed this out of the stash…..

 

 

 

The kit seems decent enough considering it is now about 25 years old, and should be a relatively straightforward build.

 

The first steps covered building up the lower chassis.

 

 

Followed by adding the details to the sides of the body before assembling the flat sides to form the superstructure.

 

 

The sides went together well, taking care to make sure they stayed aligned while to glue dried.

 

The turret went together nicely too. I had to fill the locating dimples for the forward vision ports on the forward sided of the turret. I used a piece of Evergreen strip stock followed by putty to fill and blend the dimples into the turret sides.

 

 

And finally the major parts all sat together to see how it’s going to look.

 

 

Next up will be attending to some of the details and joining the major components together.

[Stef N.]

Interesting subject. Will follow along.

[Geo1966]

Me too. Does this come with a section of railway track or did i dream that

 

George

[Jasper dog]

1 hour ago, Stef N. said:

Interesting subject. Will follow along.

Ditto!

 

Look forward to seeing one of these built.

 

Atb

Darryl 

[Bullbasket]

And the same here. It would be interesting to see this on the back end of the 3.10 to Yuma.

 

John.

[Watto64]

An interesting choice - look forward to seeing the end result.

[Lazy Modeller]

That's a very Interesting subject! Never tried one, just because it evolves a bit on the diorama side...rails at least.

 

Cheers

LM

[Ernie]

9 hours ago, Geo1966 said:

Me too. Does this come with a section of railway track or did i dream that

 

George

Yes, the kit includes a section of rails and ties (sleepers) as well as a base that doubles as a jig to position the ties and rails.

 

Thank you all for the comments and interest in this project.

[Ernie]

Since this is an older DML kit, some of the details are a bit weak. I decided to enhance the turret weld beads using Archer 3D weld decals. I had not used these before so it seemed like a good opportunity to try them out. They worked pretty well I think, and I am happy with the results. Photos of the real turrets show weld beads that are petite and well executed and the decals have done a good job representing this.