Panzerkampfanzug- power armoured Jager

[area23]

German Panzerkampfanzug troopers.



The backpacks were changed to make them less 'space marine'.


I should credit ramshackle curtis for the headswap-with-respirator idea.
The proportions still look daft with the long monkey arms, but I think it works okay

Old plastic space marines with West Wind falschirmjager seperate heads.
Tamiya plastic german jerrycans I had lying around (they came with the oil barrels).
Scotia Grendel decals.

[Viper]

Really nice.

Reminds me of the old days where space marines actually used camo, but yeah great for WWW2 and I really like the respirators.

Sure the monkey arms are strange but ... well I guess if anyone really complained you could say the arms are robotic and their real arms are cooped up inside the armour with some kind of control system.
 

[Abbner Home]

Very nice.

I'm stealing the backpack idea. I started on some of my old beakies using the same idea but the GW backpacks didn't work.

[YPU]

I love the backpacks but to be honest the bottom half of the head remaining doesn't do it for me.

[Benny]

Interesting idea but still too much like a space marine in my book. Maybe trim the lower leg down a bit more so they loose the flares. Also the gun has to go in my opinion. It needs to look more like a WW2 gun maybe like a Thompson or a Mauser. If thats not possible i would have removed the Imperial Eagle. Also to low tech it a bit more maybe some exposed wires or rivets/bolts. Certainly like the idea and the creativity, i just think it needs a bit more to make it Weird War 2.

[Abbner Home]

What I've been trying with my guns is cutting off the magazine and gluing it on the side sten gun style. Then I extend the barrel with a brass tube. The idea is to evoke a 20mm flak. It worked decently but did limit the posing. I'm using the original beakies which may be an easier start point.

I didn't do any trimming to the legs but I did remove the studs from the shoulder pad.

I'm mid move so I can't post pics right now. They are very much WIP in any case.

I like area23's and the paint job is quite nice. Most importantly they are done, and done is beautiful.

[area23]

Thank's all.
Please bear in mind that I'm lazy. I had these lying around since, what? the early nineties or something? Cutting of the heads, replacing them with another head and glueing on a jerrycan was one evening's work. After more than 15 years, rather satisfying, haha.

I had no intend whatsoever to make them look like plausible WW2 technology, just thought it would look cool.