Scotties Sd.Kfz. 10/5

[Guest]

Wow Paul , say no more.:nerd::flushed::surprised:

[Mickc1440]

Such a great start Scottie, love watching these builds

[scottie3158]

Great modifications and scratchwork Paul. I have the ESCI kit...don't know if it's similar to both the Italeri and Revell kit.

Cheers,
Richard

Hi Richard, cheers mate. As far as I can make out Revell and Italeari shared the moulds but not ESCI

Beautiful job. Early Corvettes (before IRS) had the same strap arrangement on the rear axle.

Thanks Paul,A lot of vehicles with solid axles had these straps especially X country and 4 x 4 to protect the suspension.

Hi Scottie
Front axle/suspension looks so much better. Definitely worth the time and effort.
Thanks Allen for the half track info. Most interesting. Sorry Scottie for clogging up your thread with my question.
Jim

Jim, not a problem mate that is what these posts are for, sharing information and asking questions.

Paul, while soaking in all your detail, have to say that the copper linkage pins keep drawing my eye:anguished:... Bravo !

Ron, thank you mate they were fun to make

Wow Paul , say no more.:nerd::flushed::surprised:

Thanks John.

Such a great start Scottie, love watching these builds

Mick, Thanks mate hopefully more to come.

[scottie3158]

The bonnet (hood) panels did not fit very well at all leaving a large gap at the rear. This may be due to the dubious location of the bulkhead and dash board earlier. The instructions show the wind shield fitted even when the armour for the cab is fitted is this correct or would they have removed the windshield?





I still have some cleaning up to do along the panel lines.

Cheers
Scottie

[Tim Marlow]

Nice progress Scottie. Great additions as usual.

[Jim R]

This may be due to the dubious location of the bulkhead and dash board earlier.

Ain't that so often the case. Iffy instructions with imprecise location points and then positioning of other parts is thrown out.
You have overcome issues and it all looks good.
Can't help with the windscreen question but someone will know. Calling Jakko :smiling: :thumb2: :smiling:
Jim

[minitnkr]

The PAK versions (3.7 & 5.0) definitely did away w/it but the AA version is unclear as the armor is the same height as the original windscreen.

[Andy the Sheep]

I'm not an expert on German half-tracks, but I think that keeping the windscreen behind the armour (that is to say in a a combat situation) would be a dangerous choice: any hit on the armour, any artillery near-miss, not to talk about a bullet going through the loophole, would break the windscreen behind it creating an unpleasant shower of high speed glass splinters in the driving compartment... but it's just a speculative thought.

[minitnkr]

Royal Models & Dragon do not include the windshield in their armored AA versions.

[Lee Drennen]

Paul. I agree with the critics beautiful scratch work

[scottie3158]

Nice progress Scottie. Great additions as usual.

Thanks Tim, nice of you to say.

Ain't that so often the case. Iffy instructions with imprecise location points and then positioning of other parts is thrown out.
You have overcome issues and it all looks good.
Can't help with the windscreen question but someone will know. Calling Jakko :smiling: :thumb2: :smiling:
Jim

To be fair it is an old kit but the location points for the fire wall to the tub were very iffy. Still I got away with it this time

The PAK versions (3.7 & 5.0) definitely did away w/it but the AA version is unclear as the armor is the same height as the original windscreen.

Paul, Given your input and the other comments I think I will leave it off.

I'm not an expert on German half-tracks, but I think that keeping the windscreen behind the armour (that is to say in a a combat situation) would be a dangerous choice: any hit on the armour, any artillery near-miss, not to talk about a bullet going through the loophole, would break the windscreen behind it creating an unpleasant shower of high speed glass splinters in the driving compartment... but it's just a speculative thought.

Andy, That is faultless logic mate I will leave the screen off which is just as well as it would take a lot of work to make it look presentable.

Royal Models & Dragon do not include the windshield in their armored AA versions.

Paul, Thanks for the conformation mate.

Paul. I agree with the critics beautiful scratch work

Lee thank you kindly mate.

[Allen Dewire]

Hey Paul,

Great scratchy my friend, but your exhaust pipe outlet diameter is 0.05mm too big.................Made you look!!! All of the reference pics I have show no windscreen behind the armor shield. Andrea raised a very good reason for this above too. Keep on trucking Bro and adding the finery. As this is the Flak 38 version, you won't need to make the counter weights on the front either. Lucky you.................

Prost
Allen (almost Ret.)

[scottie3158]

Hey Paul,

Great scratchy my friend, but your exhaust pipe outlet diameter is 0.05mm too big.................Made you look!!! All of the reference pics I have show no windscreen behind the armor shield. Andrea raised a very good reason for this above too. Keep on trucking Bro and adding the finery. As this is the Flak 38 version, you won't need to make the counter weights on the front either. Lucky you.................

Prost
Allen (almost Ret.)

Hi Allen,
Trust you to notice that the exhaust was to big . No windscreen seems to be the general feeling. I'm struggling to find some decent reference pics of the inside of the armour at the moment all I can find is some pictures of the dragon build. Take care mate and thanks for stopping buy.

[Guest]

Look at it this way: even if the windscreen were normally still on the vehicle, chances are that individual crews would have removed them for exactly the reasons mentioned.

[Guest]

Nice Paul, gives me and many more hope when you find something doesn't fit property, mind I can get any part to miss fit !