1/76 SdKfz 234 APC variant "Gazelle"

[SinUnNombre]

Awesome build. And welcome to the forum. I can't wait to see this finished. Any idea of the camo scheme??

Jon

[Gunbird]

Propably one of the infra red schemes, Olive, Red Primer and Bone. I'll equip 3 or 4 with IR equipment as well.

[HOG]

Hiya Gunbird
Welcome to the asylum, and a nice build you`ve got going there, as to posting an AFV, it`s nice to see something different (and I build mainly planes)

As to posting subjects/topics, lately I`ve been doing real world stuff and nobodies complained. (yet)
Mind you that my be because of my mental if not actual age
Cheers 
Gary

[Gunbird]

Hehe, a lovely bunch of nutters here, so its the perfect locale for me. 

nr 2 just needs some detailing (headlights, rails etc), but is already based:


..while numbers 3 till 7 are in progress. No number 8....yet. Shop ran out of kits


I'm building a lot at once to keep them consistent as a unit, made a online tutorial for them so other (wargaming) people can copy it, but don't expect them to be done this year...last day of my holiday and tomorrow it's back to the land of long hours. 

[B777LR]

Hehe, you are already mad! Usually takes at least 6 months until members get this mad

[Gunbird]

I'm quite mad enough as it is, thank you, as you will see in the near future.... And I don't mould or cast. Would not even know where to start, actually.

[Sauragnmon]

Sanity is for the weak!!!

Number 2 accomodates the fix we suggested with off positioning the turret.  Assembly lining your construction is always a good way to keep things consistent for certain.

[B777LR]

Why build 6 or 7 when you could quite easily build one and then mould it and cast it? 

Because resin costs more than a barrel of fuel?

[General Zod]

Welcome to the jungle Gunbird
We got fun and games


Love your creation Great to see more armor on gere

[lancer]

DAMM!!! Those are superb, where do I get a 1/1 scale working model of one?

[SinUnNombre]

Oh wow. I just realised why i couldn't quite see the Puma underneath. You're building it backwards........

Jon

[frank2056]

Oh wow. I just realised why i couldn't quite see the Puma underneath. You're building it backwards........

Jon

Huh, I just noticed that, too. Great build! Building it backwards gives it a Russian BTR-like feel to it, or maybe it's the turret. Gunbird, are you going to paint them? I have an Italeri 1/35 Puma that has sitting in the closet for years, partially built, waiting for an inspiration (other than YANAFV - Yet Another Nazi AFV),

Frank

[Sauragnmon]

Not quite a BTR look, so much as an IFV version of the original BRDM scout car... with a different front end on it, and eight full blown wheels instead of the four with four traverse assist wheels...

[Weaver]

As I said below somewhere, it's effectively a Puma equivalent of the British Saladin/Saracen concept, i.e. take a rear-engined armoured car and turn it around so that it drives the other way and has a rear door to function as an APC. Doing this to the Puma would be even easier than the Saladin, since it already has a rear driving station and full reverse gears. If they didn't already have the Hanomag 3/4 track the Germans might well have considered this sort of thing.

I had an idea to do a 4x4, open-topped pre-war version of this with a Panhard AML-245 (?) armoured car: the result would have been a "scout car" similar to the American White M2.

[B777LR]

Why build 6 or 7 when you could quite easily build one and then mould it and cast it? 

Because resin costs more than a barrel of fuel?

Actually, no.  £20 for a 2 KG kit from Tiranti's in London.  Which is pretty cheap.

No thanks, i will prefer a bucket of putty and a P-51, and convert that...