Ideas and References for future builds

Panzer-Regiment 5 in the Campaign in North Africa, Tripoli 1941. A Panzer I of the regimental headquarters is painted in desert camouflage sand (sandgelb) from its original dark gray (panzergrau).  

Panzer-Regiment 5 in the Campaign in North Africa, Agedabia - 02-04-1941 

The Sd.Kfz.10 was the most effective half-tracked tractor available used for numerous duties, including towing light and medium anti-tank guns. Due to the type having an excellent cross-country performance, it became the vehicle of motorized units.  

the Sd.Kfz.247 Ausf.B, was issued to the staff section of the reconnaissance battalion in 6.Pz.Div. The vehicle was not originally fitted with radio equipment, but this was quickly rectified.  

June 1940: a number of PzKpfw 35(t) of 6.PzDiv advancing across a field of cereals during the invasion of France. Although the tank was considered to be reliable and had good cross-country performance, it was too lightly armed and soon became obsolete.  

One of the most important medium trucks was the Mercedes-Benz L 3000 which entered production in 1938. Although not designed as a cross-country vehicle, its performance was considered more than adequate. A total of some 27,700 had been made til 1945.  

While Co.C was moving through the Bovigny Forest, Co.A, 774th Tank Battalion was whitewashing their tanks in Joubieval on 17-Jan to help camouflage them in the snow. 

One of the rarer versions of the Pz,Kpfw.III was the Minenraumerpanzer III, an experimental mine-roller vehicle. One of the prototypes is seen here at a US Army ordnance holding area near Paris. 

 

6.Pz.Div. which received the LT vz 35; he was re-designated as the Pz.Kpfw.35(t). He was used extensively during the initial phases of Unternehmen (operation) Barbarossa.  

Pz.Kpfw.38(t) (SdKfz 140) in left, and Pz.Kpfw II (SdKfz 121) climbing a grade, right, on the move. It was taken in during the breakout of 7. Pz.-Div. (Generalmajor Erwin Rommel) out of a valley near the Somme river, France - 1-10 June 1940  

Free French colonial troops supported by American tanks during the Italian campaigns, they passed in front of abandoned Italian M42 Semovente 75/18 850(i) from German Pz.jgd.Abt.171 /71.Inf.Div. "Kleeblatt" - Ausonia, Italy - May 1944 

Free French colonial troops supported by American tanks during the Italian campaigns, they passed in front of abandoned Italian M42 Semovente 75/18 850(i) from German Pz.jgd.Abt.171 /71.Inf.Div. "Kleeblatt" - Ausonia, Italy - May 1944 

The commander of a Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.N from s.Pz.Abt.501 stands on his turret to locate targets. Near Tunisia - January 1943 

The commander of a Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.N from s.Pz.Abt.501 stands on his turret to locate targets. Near Tunisia - January 1943 

a Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.N from s.Pz.Abt.501. Near Tunisia - January 1943 

Pz.Kpfw.III of Heeresgruppe Süd advances through the Kuban Steppe on the Caucasus Mountains during Unternehmen Blau/Fall Blau - Kuban, Azerbaijan - August 1942 

Pz.Kpfw.III of Heeresgruppe Süd advances through the Kuban Steppe on the Caucasus Mountains during Unternehmen Blau/Fall Blau - Kuban, Azerbaijan - August 1942 

Pz.Kpfw.III of Heeresgruppe Süd advances through the Kuban Steppe on the Caucasus Mountains during Unternehmen Blau/Fall Blau - Kuban, Azerbaijan - August 1942 

Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.N during a lull in combat. Russia - 1942 

Two soldiers of s.Pz.Abt.508 in Rome (Italy) with their staff BMW 321 car, 20 February 1944. This is interesting because provides an excellent view of the camouflage finish as well as the battalion emblem and the pink and black battalion pennant 

The Heeres-Sturmartillerie crew Replenished their 75mm shells ammunition to their Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) from a parked Sd.Kfz. 252 leichte Gepanzerte Munitionskraftwagen. Presumably Italian Front in 1943. 

2cm Flakvierling 38 auf Selbstfahrlafette Sd.Kfz.7/1 in Fischhausen (now Primorsk in the Kaliningrad Oblast), March 1945, in East Prussian Offensive, 13 Jan. – 25 April 1945. note both the added armour plate as well as the armour of Flak are in Panzergr 

Panzer III of Afrikakorps advancing at speed in the Western Desert. When the first German forces came in Africa in march 1941, 

The men and vehicles of LeibstandarI.Abteilung / SS-Panzer-Regiment 1 / 1.SS-Panzer-Division LSSAH taken in the area of Berdychiv, Ukraine between 11-12 November 1943 

Mercedes-Benz L-3000 from Totenkopf 

Flak 2 cm in a British CMP F60 3 ton Type 12 cab. - North Africa - 1942 

 

 

A MG-34 German gunner crew in the firing position on the corner of a house. - Rogatchev, Belarus - 1941 

"mittlerer Einheits-PKW" equipped with a snow plows 

here a pic with two vehicles with snow plows, the first is a "mittlerer Einheits-PKW", the second a "Einheitsdiesel". The question is: was the Einheits-PKW a good and useful vehicle for a snow plow with a total weight of only 3 tons 

A Horch mPKW with a snow plough 

Mercedes Benz L 4500 ZWF (Zweiwegefahrzeug) in English: two-road-vehicle (road and railroad); produced in 1937 with a 6-cyl. 112 bhp-engine (OM 67/4).  

Stug.IV to note the Schurzen 

Magirus M206 Kfz.76 or 77 

Büssing-Nag 900L Flak 18 truck and Brückenlegepanzer IVb 

Büssing-Nag 900L Flak 18 truck and Brückenlegepanzer IVb 

Vomag with 8,8 cm Flak 36/37 

Vomag with 8,8 cm Flak 36/37 

Vomag with 8,8 cm Flak 36/37 

Vomag with 8,8 cm Flak 36/37 

Vomag with 8,8 cm Flak 36/37