Does anyone know if there is an after market Püppchen aluminium barrel in 1/35?

Thanks
Scott

I've not heard of one. But it's a short tube with no taper. You can probably find some styrene rod or aluminum rod that will match the diameter -- or just sand carefully the kit part.

Scott;

I don't know of any metal AM Puppchen barrels...

But, remember that a "puppchen" is (was) essentially an 88mm "panzerschreck" fitted with a simple breech-closure to trap exhaust gases for to boost rocket speed - and of course to enable it to be used a little bit more like a gun without having the rocket back-blast. The barrel was a thin-walled pipe. As noted in previous post above, the barrel was not tapered.

It usually had a sheet-metal conical flashing at the muzzle to help limit the muzzle-blast. Pictures show this quite as one would imagine such a fitting to be... a conical "collar" fitted as a sleeve over the barrel end. The "shield" was likewise sheet-metal - not an armour plate but just to keep the blast from the rocket away from the gunner.

If you are like me, and have one of those Dragon 1/35 puppchen kits (or you have that RPM thing with the TKS tankette), you can fix up the barrel pretty easily...

My approach is to use a smallish plastic "soda" straw- it's straight, and pretty scale - thin-walled. The best straw is the smallish one sometimes used in bars for drinks or for coffee stirs in some places - not the standard size straw.

You can also, of course, work the muzzle-end with the exacto knife- if you Google the puppchen and view some pics, that pipe is pretty thin-walled indeed, so you'll need to be pretty careful to thin things way out. Likewise with that conical blast-break... I found that getting the non-tapered look inside that barrel was pretty challenging, so went with the straw. But it can be done.

Bob