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Building a Leichter Panzertriebwagen!

I then turned to add grips, which are not supplied. I used silver wire for that. Last hurdles are the gutters. I had serious problems in working the gutters. While bending them to L-format was pretty straightforward the bending of their ends to U-shape always resulted in destruction of the part. I then improvised, by bending the parts to U-shape at first and gluing them in place. I then cut out a relevant sized part from aluminum foil and glued it in 90° angle below the etched part to get an L-shape finally. Two pictures of draisine’s are showing such gutters which leads me to...

Variants
Although it seems that only 40 vehicles have been built in total, there are minor differences, which all can be realized with this kit, except for decals, which are not provided.


1.) 3 rectangular engine vents.
2.) 8 mushroom style engine vents.
3.) Gutters exceeding the vision slits.
4.) Gutters with same level as vision slits.
5.) No gutters.
6.) Vehicles with and without "balkenkreuz", those with are additionally marked with roman numbers on the bow.
7.) And seem to be painted "reichsbahn" grey.
8.) Other paint variant is German sand, but I also saw a picture of a very battle weary example which additionally carries a very crude hand painted camouflage.

Although the kit provides very nice hinges, the bolts which are “fixing” them are not represented. Normally I am using a “Grainers set” to produce nuts and bolts but as this kit had to be made out of the box I simply made small holes with a needle to simulate the bolts.