discussion Can Someone please help me identify this 1/72 Model Vehicle? ww2 german vehicle?

[Guest]

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This is one of the vehicles that came along with some others that i ordered from Ebay, It came together with other vehicles as part of a "1/72 German Lot" so i assumed that it was a German vehicle, but i have no way to be sure.

Can someone please help me identify if this is actually a german vehicle or not? Or if the person who sold this to me Ripped off the original turret of a Tank and put that Artillery Piece thing on the Chassis or something?

To me the chassis of the vehicle looks like it belongs to a Tiger I, but i just can't figure out what that artillery piece thing is doing there or if this was an actual vehicle of some sort.

 

[Guest]

It is a Tiger I chassis but noooooo idea about the artillery. Looks like someone has done a "what if "

HTH

Stuart

 

[Guest]

Looks like a `What If` to me.

 

[Guest]

The chassis looks like a VK 4501 (Tiger I), but the artillery....i don't know what is. And searching prototypes and panzer variants I don't found nothing. I have a book of tiger I from Osprey and don't say nothing too.

Mmmm.... "what if...."

 

[flyjoe180]

While it doesn't exactly match the description, there is a Tiger chassis with an 88 gun on it in various forms of configuration with armour plate or without the armour plate. I searched 'Panzer IV with 88 gun' and 'Sonderfahrgestell'.

Braille Scale Discussion Group: ML & BSMC GB: Panzer IV mit 88

Sonderfahrgestell auf Flak 41

SCALE MILITARY MODELS: 8.8cm FlaK 41 auf Sonderfahrgestell - 1/35 Scale

 

[Guest]

Okay, I truly appreciate all the info and help. I Took the "Artillery" Piece off of the Chassis, and i made a failed attempt at carving a new and Proper Tiger 1 Turret to put on it (made out of wood).

Is there anywhere that i can get a New Tiger 1 Turret to put on the chassis? I looked on ebay but there are only 2 Turrets, and while being highly overpriced for pieces alone, they are King Tiger Turrets and not Tiger 1's.

Or could i order a new Turret Piece from the manufacturer? (I wouldn't know how to do that)

 

[Guest]

would it not be easier and probably cheaper to just buy a tiger 1 kit

 

[Guest]

would it not be easier and probably cheaper to just buy a tiger 1 kit

I would prefer to not buy the Kit because i have never assembled models before besides a Tiger I that i did previously (and it turned out horrible) and a Flak 88 which also came out very poorly.

I just need the piece.