Small Scale Military Headquarters

Some pics of my sdkfz 251/9 Kanonewagen or Stummel. Started this a few years ago and lost interest working on it. I thought I would take another crack at it. Here's what I have so far.

Thats some really nice work so far, can't wait to see it finished.

Looks good so far you should be able to steal the barrel of of the Panzer IV short nose.

Thanks,
I don't have one of those. I made the barrel parts on the lathe but I have to redo the end part, I'll just make it out of Aluminum.

smittyrob64 wrote:Thanks,
I don't have one of those. I made the barrel parts on the lathe but I have to redo the end part, I'll just make it out of Aluminum.

I wish I had a lathe and to know how to use it.

I use brass tubes and Bondo. Then I chuck it in a drill and spin and sand.

I have made every barrel I made this way.

M-10
T-34/76
T-34/85
M-3 tank destroyer
T-23 turret
Firefly
Stuka cannon

Of course if I had a lathe I do not know how to use it.

YOURS LOOKS GREAT !!!!!

Thanks Pickelhaube,

I use that method too, soldering brass bits together and turning them in a drill chuck. I made things like the hanomag crank caps, wheel caps and anything small and round this way.

and your barrels always look great, I'd still like a set of those stuka cannon's.

How do you make things like the wheels and tires on your sdkfz 222 if you don't mind me asking?

pickelhaube wrote:I use brass tubes and Bondo. Then I chuck it in a drill and spin and sand.

I have made every barrel I made this way.

M-10
T-34/76
T-34/85
M-3 tank destroyer
T-23 turret
Firefly
Stuka cannon

That is a useful tip. I haven't made many from scratch, but I sure feel like a caveman with my (styrene tube+Xacto Knife) x (Me cutting as I turn the tube+ Sanding) method. And yes, it took forever


-Kevin

smittyrob64 wrote:Thanks Pickelhaube,

I use that method too, soldering brass bits together and turning them in a drill chuck. I made things like the hanomag crank caps, wheel caps and anything small and round this way.

and your barrels always look great, I'd still like a set of those stuka cannon's.

How do you make things like the wheels and tires on your sdkfz 222 if you don't mind me asking?

I cheated on the 222 and used a Hanomags tire. I just sanded it to shape and depend the side lugs.

I also used the Hanos wheel . I turned it around sanded off the detail and added my own. The inner wheel ridge was made by spinning on a dremel and cutting the outside whit an x-acto and then cutting the inside to make a ring. Then I sanded the ring profile as a half moon.

On my barrels I use a long brass tube approx 4 inches longer than the barrel tube that I need.
Then I use brass tube rings the size that I need ( small muzzle side of the tube large mantlet side of the tube).

Then I get a sheet of wax paper and sprinkle some denatured alcohol on it .

Then smear bondo on the center tube.

Then roll kit like dough on the wet waxed paper.

I do this till the center section is full and has taken the size of the barrel.

When all is said and done I chuck one of the ends in a drill and I spin sand it.

The first barrel took about a day to do. Now I can make one in less than an hour.

Nothing wrong with cheating in model building. Interesting method to converting the hanomag wheels, they turned out great. I will probably have to try using a paper models method as I don't have any spares to convert.
Thanks for the info.

Smitty, great job on all 3 of your 251's!!!! The detail you put into your Pakwagen was just fantastic and this one, very cool.
Great work!

Nice work

Smitty I'm happy to send you spares if I have them as long as you send me a copy of the final part. Let me know.

I did the late version awhile back

Very nice work on the halftracks.

Thanks for the comments guys.

grunt1, I pm'd you back and thanks for the offer.

Jnewboy, I remember when you first showed your late version, very nice work.

smittyrob64 wrote:Thanks for the comments guys.

grunt1, I pm'd you back and thanks for the offer.

Jnewboy, I remember when you first showed your late version, very nice work.

Thanks, I like yours better, it looks to be very well done!! how are you gana paint it?

Thanks Jnewboy, I was thinking this:

smittyrob64 wrote:Thanks Jnewboy, I was thinking this:

Nice!! in the B/W pic you can see some foliage roped to the sides, I always like doing that on mine when I can. It will look cool!!

As always great work.

For your consideration:

* Fov did # 1144 for their 1st. series 1:32 Stummel ... Good choice Heer



- MG

Small update. Got the basic gun cradle and ramp built minus details.
Working 2 jobs doesn't leave me much time to work on models.
Looking forward to building the breech guard out of brass and the detail parts.

Outstanding! The gun looks great.

Looks great!