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Offline Fitz

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SdKfz 234 variants
« on: September 09, 2019, 02:03:09 AM »

This one is the SdKfz 234/3 "Stummel", an eight-wheeled armoured car mounting a short-barrelled 75mm gun. It's handy having a vehicle that counts towards a force's scouting value, while also mounting a fairly hefty gun for blowing-things-up purposes. The model is 1:100 scale, for 15mm gaming.

The model is designed by Zachary Kavulich, printed by me at 0.1mm layer height in eSun PLA+ on my Ender 3.

The crewman is one of the passenger figures from PSC's SdKfz 251C pack, and he's not ideal; I have a real shortage of figures suitable for crewmen for this sort of vehicle. That's one of the reasons why I'd like to get myself a resin printer, so that I could design and print figures for this sort of purpose.

Next off the printer, the SdKfz 234/4 with the PaK 40 75mm.

Offline FlyXwire

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Re: SdKfz 234 variants
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2019, 04:45:11 PM »
Model and painting looks sharp Fitz - fine job!

Offline Redmist1122

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Re: SdKfz 234 variants
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2019, 05:25:00 PM »
The print job looks pretty good!  Color scheme with crew also give your models a nice touch.

Good show!
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Offline Fitz

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Re: SdKfz 234 variants
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2019, 05:18:51 AM »

This one is the SdKfz 234/4. Rather than the low-velocity howitzer of the 234/3, this one mounted a 75mm PaK 40, an excellent German anti-tank gun capable of handling almost any Allied tank right up until the end of the war.

This model was designed by M. Bergman, and the crew figures are a couple of 15mm German artillerymen from Peter Pig.

Offline vodkafan

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Re: SdKfz 234 variants
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2019, 01:23:06 PM »
Excellent, if only I could get my 28mm vehicles to look that good!
I am going to build a wargames army, a big beautiful wargames army, and Mexico is going to pay for it.

2019 Painting Challenge :
figures bought: 500+
figures painted: 57
9 vehicles painted
4 terrain pieces scratchbuilt

Offline ErikB

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Re: SdKfz 234 variants
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2019, 05:49:40 PM »
What colors did you use?  Did you airbrush?

What was the short gun used for, in general.

An anti-tank gun I understand but what was the purpose of the smaller one.  Sorry, I wasn't a WWII infantryman.  :-)

Fantastic models and painting, by the way.  They look wonderful!

Offline RichBliss

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Re: SdKfz 234 variants
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2019, 07:42:28 PM »
The short 75 was basically the 75mm infantry gun and would be used for direct support of Infantry.  Smoke rounds were also available, I believe. The vehicles were part of the Heavy Co. of the Aufklarüngs Abt. which deployed to support the recon companies fight for information or to cover a withdrawal.

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Re: SdKfz 234 variants
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2019, 08:12:36 PM »
What colors did you use?  Did you airbrush?

They're Vallejo ModelAir colours, applied with my Badger 105 Patriot and 20/20 Sotar airbrushes. I don't remember the paint numbers, but I think the base colours were Dark yellow, Tank Green, and German Camo Brown. Or something like that. The tyre rubber is Vallejo Panzer Grey surface primer.

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Re: SdKfz 234 variants
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2019, 06:12:32 PM »
Very nice

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: SdKfz 234 variants
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2019, 07:01:50 PM »
Excellent, if only I could get my 28mm vehicles to look that good!
I agree (but my 28mm ^__^ of course).