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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Fitz on September 09, 2019, 03:03:09 AM

Title: SdKfz 234 variants
Post by: Fitz on September 09, 2019, 03:03:09 AM
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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.
Title: Re: SdKfz 234 variants
Post by: FlyXwire on September 09, 2019, 05:45:11 PM
Model and painting looks sharp Fitz - fine job!
Title: Re: SdKfz 234 variants
Post by: Redmist1122 on September 10, 2019, 06:25:00 PM
The print job looks pretty good!  Color scheme with crew also give your models a nice touch.

Good show!
Title: Re: SdKfz 234 variants
Post by: Fitz on September 11, 2019, 06:18:51 AM
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CHHxfOaz8pc/XXiCTE-q2VI/AAAAAAAANhI/06c4lIRlFOcS4iPWVKTRF7IYRedF6UuzgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/2019-09-11-sdkfz234-4.jpg)

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.
Title: Re: SdKfz 234 variants
Post by: vodkafan on September 25, 2019, 02:23:06 PM
Excellent, if only I could get my 28mm vehicles to look that good!
Title: Re: SdKfz 234 variants
Post by: ErikB on September 25, 2019, 06:49:40 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!
Title: Re: SdKfz 234 variants
Post by: RichBliss on September 25, 2019, 08:42:28 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.
Title: Re: SdKfz 234 variants
Post by: Fitz on September 25, 2019, 09:12:36 PM
Quote from: ErikB on September 25, 2019, 06:49:40 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.
Title: Re: SdKfz 234 variants
Post by: Ash on September 28, 2019, 07:12:32 PM
Very nice
Title: Re: SdKfz 234 variants
Post by: Ultravanillasmurf on September 28, 2019, 08:01:50 PM
Quote from: vodkafan on September 25, 2019, 02:23:06 PM
Excellent, if only I could get my 28mm vehicles to look that good!
I agree (but my 28mm ^__^ of course).