Halftracks (M3, Sdkfz.251, and others) Questions and What-if Ideas?

[raafif]

neat 251/105 !!  Just what the Yugoslavs would have done they did add a Pak58 to a SdKfz.250.


What other oddballs ? maybe a Priest refitted with captured 88mm ?

[dy031101]

neat 251/105 !!  Just what the Yugoslavs would have done they did add a Pak58 to a SdKfz.250.

It's actually 3 inch gun M5 (in keeping with the TD theme), although I only approximated its size and probably did not scale it properly......

An assault howitzer built on captured German halftracks sounds pretty cool though.

[pyro-manic]

You might want to think about some visual modifications - I'm not sure the GIs would be very happy about riding around in a German vehicle with Typhoons/P-47s on the prowl....

[dy031101]

You might want to think about some visual modifications - I'm not sure the GIs would be very happy about riding around in a German vehicle with Typhoons/P-47s on the prowl....

Big star on the hood...... still thinking about what else I can do.

[raafif]

wondering about the mounting position & recoil forces on the chassis - seems that the US halftrack would take the shock with less bucking as the mount is further forward than in the -251 -- would the -251 buck quite a bit without a good muzzel-brake ?

A 251 re-painted US Drab, big white star in a circle & named the "Rock-a-Billy Rebel" ?

[rickshaw]

As long as its fired fore-and-aft and not athwartships it would work.  Both half-tracks might have problems with recoil and broken axles though, being perhaps too light to absorb the recoil.

[Joberg]

In the strategy game Steel Panthers Main Battle Tank it has a unit editor. I always liked my up gunned m3s I made with a pedestal mount Orlikon cannon mounted in the front and back of the rear compartment..

[Logan Hartke]

Here's something I cobbled together recently...

Logan's Profiles - SdKfz 231 Halbkettenfahrzeug



(By the way, I'm posting it in multiple threads since you never know where someone might be looking for inspiration months from now.)

Cheers,

Logan

[ysi_maniac]

Crossing Sdkfz 234 and 251

[scooter]

Some of the discussions on the Captured GB - Inspiration Thread on the Sd.Kfz.7 has gotten me to thinking, and not as part of the thread, about if said halftrack could accommodate a 40mm Bofors, in a mounting similar to the Flak 36/37.

[jcf]

No reason why not, a US M3 variant mounted a Bofors in a turret, while the official test
versions were abandoned as not feasible, a few of these field expedient vehicles
were built in Australia and used in the Phillipines by a US Army AAA battalion.

[ysi_maniac]

BTR-M3: Study for an APC

[thundereagle1997]

M113a5 light tank my f-25 f-53 & f-78 over on armoredryukenshi1984 my account on deviantart

[NARSES2]

I like that Carlos 

[ysi_maniac]

Thanks!