A small beginning for 2015 but its finished!!!

[matrixone]

Not an aircraft but is aircraft related is this 1/48 scale Tamiya Kettenkraftrad.

Expect to see this posed with the Ta 183 in the next month, the aircraft in these pictures is the Tamiya Me 262 built a few years back, despite the wild looking camouflage on it this is 100% real world proving real world paint schemes were not always boring.








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[Gondor]

Another great build there Matrixone 

Gondor

[Army of One]

Wow.......seen a few schemes for Schwalbe's.....quite a few.....never seen that one......love it, thanks for the photos. .....excellent as usual.......

[Captain Canada]

Very nice !

[sandiego89]

Nice!

I had to look up how the beast steered, had always wondered about that.  Seemed the front tire provided a bit of direction, but if you pulled the handlebars more the tracks would spilt, like a traditional bulldozer or tank. I would have thought the tire was useless.   

[Old Wombat]

Nice!

I had to look up how the beast steered, had always wondered about that.  Seemed the front tire provided a bit of direction, but if you pulled the handlebars more the tracks would spilt, like a traditional bulldozer or tank. I would have thought the tire was useless.   

In fact it pretty-much was, there was very little directional control with the tyre, I think they put it on for purely psychological reasons, given the handle-bar steering system actuated the brakes quite quickly when turned.

[NARSES2]

Another lovely little model

[matrixone]

Thanks for the comments!

I have seen some good footage of the Kettenkrads in action on Youtube, some of these videos show the steering of these things to good effect.

I finished this model before having that much information on the Kettenkrad and I made some mistakes on my model, I will be making another model and to make it more of a whiff it will be getting the Ambush scheme. The camouflage on the model in this thread was patterned after a real world Kettenkrad.

Matrixone

[Glenn]

I always liked snake pattern, and the Krad is great also.
Glenn

[zenrat]

Nice!

I had to look up how the beast steered, had always wondered about that.  Seemed the front tire provided a bit of direction, but if you pulled the handlebars more the tracks would spilt, like a traditional bulldozer or tank. I would have thought the tire was useless.   

In fact it pretty-much was, there was very little directional control with the tyre, I think they put it on for purely psychological reasons, given the handle-bar steering system actuated the brakes quite quickly when turned.

IIRC they were designed so you could remove the motorbike front end and just drive it as a small tank.
Good job.

[Old Wombat]

Actually, I was watching some UK show on TV the other day (Combat/Blitz Pawn/Dealers? Something like that.) & they had bought a Kettenkraftrad without a front wheel. Once they'd tightened the arms connecting the handle-bars to the brake actuators it drove perfectly well.

[Mossie]

Lovely little kit that Tamiya Kettenkrad, and a very nice job done on it too.  I had the one with starter kart but passed it onto HOG who used it in an excellent diorama.

[matrixone]

Thanks guys!

The Tamiya Kettenkrad is a wonderful little kit, since I mostly build aircraft I don't have too many ground vehicle kits in my stash but I have built the 1/48 scale Tamiya Schwimmwagen, Kubelwagen, and a couple start carts and they were all of very high quality with good detail for their tiny size.
Were it not for me being out of work for so long I would have already built the rest of Tamiya's line of 1/48 scale armor kits by now.

Matrixone