Over the last few years, I have started to base more and more projects on period images of vehicles. With such a wealth of online material it is often possible to find multiple images which makes the task of replicating them accurately a real possibility.
Before I added the decals which include the licence plate, I did a little research and picked out a vehicle that I would loosely replicate. Two images caught my eye from the fantastic Canfora publication ‘AFV Photo Album’. As per the image caption this 8-ton was likely to have been from the 6th Pz.Div, and together with the 3.7cm Flak it was towing was abandoned in Polná, Czechoslovakia in 1945.
I then tracked down the location via Google maps. The tower/church in the background greatly helped and it became evident the vehicle sat on a slight incline. Interestingly all the buildings adjacent were still standing. As I already had a Flak 3.7cm built and awaiting paint I set about sourcing material to place them on a suitably sized base.
Chapter 10
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