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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Keith on 22 October 2017, 02:47:31 PM

Title: Saurer Sdkfz254
Post by: Keith on 22 October 2017, 02:47:31 PM
I have very little use for this, but never thought we'd see one in 28mm so had to make it :-)
I switched out the aerial for something a little more in-scale but otherwise very minor fiddling.

(http://imageshack.com/a/img924/9657/lBVs5P.jpg)
(http://imageshack.com/a/img922/6048/3fK5kU.jpg)
Title: Re: Saurer Sdkfz254
Post by: Vanvlak on 22 October 2017, 02:52:13 PM
Very nice! Weathering (and all else) looks great.
This is one I have to admit I'd never heard of, and I can see why you had to build it.  8)
Title: Re: Saurer Sdkfz254
Post by: Ultravanillasmurf on 22 October 2017, 04:59:22 PM
Very nice.

So, who has the third one of these?

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=95451.msg1301570#msg1301570 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=95451.msg1301570#msg1301570)
Title: Re: Saurer Sdkfz254
Post by: Helen on 22 October 2017, 08:45:32 PM
Lovely work Keith. The weathering effect on the colour is excellent.
Title: Re: Saurer Sdkfz254
Post by: Captain Blood on 22 October 2017, 08:55:37 PM
Outstanding paintwork Keith. On man and vehicle   :-*

It really is a peculiar looking beast. Presumably the wheels dropped down for on-road use?
Title: Re: Saurer Sdkfz254
Post by: moiterei_1984 on 22 October 2017, 09:57:25 PM
Extremely awesome! I love such oddities and somehow I suddenly feel a familiar itch...
Title: Re: Saurer Sdkfz254
Post by: Keith on 22 October 2017, 10:24:16 PM
Outstanding paintwork Keith. On man and vehicle   :-*

It really is a peculiar looking beast. Presumably the wheels dropped down for on-road use?

Indeed. Probably seemed like a great idea until the first one rumbled off the production line.
Title: Re: Saurer Sdkfz254
Post by: Ultravanillasmurf on 22 October 2017, 10:40:38 PM
Lovely story about one of these on Wikipedia:
In 1950 the former mechanic Václav Uhlík from Líně in the Czech Republic found the wreck of an RR-7 artillery tractor. He repaired and rebuilt the machine as an armoured carrier. On 25 July 1953 he got through three border zones including wire obstacles, and penetrated thirty kilometres into West German territory. There he applied for asylum and emigrated to the United States, where the machine was exhibited as the "freedom tank" (Czech: tank svobody).

To be read with your choice of NaCL.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SdKfz_254 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SdKfz_254)

There is a period photograph on the Surviving Panzers web site.