Saurer Sdkfz254

[Keith]

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.

[Vanvlak]

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. 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Very nice.

So, who has the third one of these?

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=95451.msg1301570#msg1301570

[Helen]

Lovely work Keith. The weathering effect on the colour is excellent.

[Captain Blood]

Outstanding paintwork Keith. On man and vehicle   

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

[moiterei_1984]

Extremely awesome! I love such oddities and somehow I suddenly feel a familiar itch...

[Keith]

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.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

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

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