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Building a Leichter Panzertriebwagen!

The further construction is quite straightforward, it is only required to compare the part with its location on the drawing. Some sort of mystery is the location of the tools on the roof. Javier Santz referred to a drawing of Paul Malmassary. I followed my own guess and did not “fix” the hammers with 2 clamps each, but located them inverted and tied them down with 2 clamps only. The reason for my suggestion is a removable engine access and the lack of remaining space for individually locating the hammers between copula and this access.

Next delicate section is the frame antenna. One frame support was molded incompletely and had to be rebuilt. Each of the 6 supports figure a cylindrical part at the tip which should represent a guiding ring for the antenna. As these cylinders are not molded hollow, it would have been necessary to drill them out and then pull the antenna trough. A big challenge I did not take. The reason for it was the fact that I could not find such rings on the real thing. The antenna was simply welded on the support. I therefore removed the cylinders and prepared the top which should house the antenna with a round file, so that the frame could be located a bit recessed.

The supplied plastic rod is not suited for creating the frame antenna as it does not remain in shape. I therefore replaced it with 0,8mm wire. One big disadvantage is that there is no guide how to bend the frame antenna. A drawing of the side view is available, but the urgent needed top view is missing. This would be important to find out the shape of the antenna after the fold. The pictures of the real stuff did not help much, but I decided to represent a trapezoid form. I bent and added the antenna after gluing on the supports. Do not forget to add a 0,8mm wire between the middle holders.