So 2 years and no upload oopsie.
I think I also started this project around 2 years ago so good subject for a restart.
Background info:
The idea: This is a one man Fallschirmjager panzerjager, designed to fit under a Stuka or somewhat bigger light/medium bombers, I got that idea from the Dobbas cargo pod that could carry up to 1800kg cargo depending on the plane used, with the Luftwaffe demand for an under 3,5t Fallschirmjager panzerjager, my weird obsession with airborne tanks and one man tanks, then it all clicked design a Panzerjager with a weight up to 1800kg so it would fit under a Ju-86D Stuka and that turned out to be this.
Body: Well sloped with inspiration from both the Hetzer and Jagdpanzer IV
Armor -30mm front plate
-15 sides
-8mm for the rest
Engine, possible a Volkswagen beetle engine from the Kubelwagen or a similar sided one would work and gearbox in the back. One the right side the solo crewmember, more on that later and with a small radio Kleinfunksprecher D Dorette. Left the gun and most of the ammo not that many round fit, got some 12 HEAT and 7 HE rounds in there + 4 in the magazine, the HE is shorter so does fit behind the seat and in the nose better.
Big visor hatch and rotating periscope.
Idler at the front, 3 steel wheels per side and T-34 style sprocket at the rear.
Armament: My first idea was a couple of 88mm Panzerschrecks or 105mm Hammers but that look too much like the Borgward IV Panzerjager Wanze or the Ontos also the range would be very limited so skipped that and went for the upgraded 88mm Raketenwerfer 43 Puppchen, lets call it the uber Puppchen or grosse Puppe? Anyway longer barrel and longer tail for the round so it will fit more propellent and give a longer range. Big muzzle brake, the real Raketenwerfen 43 has a pretty big kickback so it would need something to help with that. Adding a 4 round revolver style "magazine" for faster follow up shots. Last a Stg44 or Fg42 as a coax and spotting rifle.
The model: Or I should say models as I made 2, 1 to test the interior and of anything fits and 1 solid body, likely I will just finish the solid body 1 as the 1 with full interior is very flimsy and with the latest heatwave already started to warp. Running gear came from a couple of different sources of scratch build models I did before, idler is the main wheel from I think from Borgward IV or could be the T-60, main wheels from a different airborne Panzerjager I’m working on for a even longer time as this one. I am toying with the idea of doing a series maybe a tractor and a version with 20mm/30mm cannon instead of the 88mm, don’t think a turret is possible so will also be hull mounted.
Still left to do
-gun sight
-drivers hatch
-engine hatch
-fenders
-maybe schurzen
-tracks, going to print the tracks, really simple Panzer 4 tracks that I have rescaled
Crew member: for the crew I sculpted a couple of test figures with a combination of Fallschirmjager smock bottoms and the Panzer wrap top, the idea behind it being to reflect that they are the elite of the elite so wear a combination of uniforms is needed.
The sidearm is also unique, got the idea from AO-46 and excuse that the Germans would have something like it 25 years before the AO-46 is that Hitler order a pistol made for the Pistolenpatrone M43 (pistol cartridge model 1943) aka 7.92×33mm Kurz, after all dictator logic if something is called a pistol cartridge a pistol for it needs to be made.
Now what to call it?
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  crew in Fallschirmjager Panzer wrap combination |
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| both the solid and interior versions |
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| bit of paint |
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| interior layout but the ammo fell over |
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| part of the revolver magazine |
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| series of similar ideas that all failed |
greeting and thanks for watching
Mondria
