I should have my kit, by the end of the month. Found an extra $20 bill folded neatly, in my wallet. Glad I check, from time to time.

Hi, everybody

I think that this is a great campaign and I like to join it.

It ´ll be my second campaign!

This is my proposal:



I love the Pz.I family and thou this one was of very limited production with only 40 examples built it makes an unusual subject so far.

Just tell me if it´s OK for the campaign and I´ll started as soon as I finish my other commitment in the anti-aircraft campaign.

See you soon.

Raul.

Hi, Bob

Of course there´s room for two of these! And I´ll be glad to share this build with you!

I´ve read somewhere that the issues with the tracks and sprockets are really serious so, as you can see, I´ve got the Fruil tracks and sprockets.

The other major pointed issue is the commander´s cupola. The hatch seems to be too small in diameter. May be a replacement with some from a Pz.II F cupola would work (have an old Tamiya F somewhere).

Also some others replacements will be mandatory, like the boxes´ support legs; they are badly out of scale; tools could be changed with some Dragon´s left overs or from the Tamiya PZ. IV tools set, the clamps and clasps added with the dreaded Aber PE, and the gun and MG with some metal, as you stated.

About the scheme. After reading in the excellent “Panzer Tracts Panzerkampfwagen I [1 &2]” and “AFV Collection - Panzer I - The Beginning of a Dynasty” that this little babe fought in the Normandy campaign, I was guessing the same as you. Therefore I´m planning a Dunkelgelb finish, and may add some green camo as well (not another “boring panzer grey”).

But first I must finish my Flakpanzer, and then it will be time for this one.

Cheers, Bob

Raul

If this is as good as the Flakpanzer it is going to be a work of art... at least this time I am building something different so i cant see how bad I am in comparison ;-)

but yet again, I am sticking to "boring grey" (well may do a white wash scheme for variety)

Box-mounts, maybe some tools, likely some clamps, certainly a couple of missing weld-seams - all on my "honey-do fix-list" for this baby, too!

That cupola.... Be cautious! There are a few pics of this beast that allow one to see down onto that cupola, and actually it did indeed have what appears to be a very small hatch! Certainly smaller-looking than hatches on most German tanks. I've been in the discussion around this hatch issue before... The tiny cupola hatch on the 1C seems not too different from a tiny item on the II-J, etc. Odd as it perhaps seems, I would suggest NOT replacing it, unless you find some convincing evidence for a new, larger size and find a fitting replacement.

Do the Fruils come with "correct" sprockets, or do they fit onto the kit sprockets "correctly"? I very seldom go for AM tracks, but may consider such for this one, as I got the kit pretty cheaply - and, hey, it's only money

We NEED some 1944 Normandy pics of this machine!

Bob

@Raul;

Here's a first "punt" at a Normandy June 1944 Pz. 1 ausf C pic!

Found this on a short web-search - take a look and see what looks to be a tri-color paint-scheme!

http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php/3292-Panzer-projects-amp-prototypes/page11

Not the clearest pic going, but!

Bob

Frederik: Better than a new compressor.

@Raul:

Here's another couple 1C pics...

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/ww2-general/rare-crazy-panzer-projekts-1719-18.html

You can see in one that the top hatch is very small - looks to be maybe less than 3/4 the diameter of one of those "solid-stamped" road-wheels. And looking at the clearer pic of the tank parked up with crew standing around...

If I were to estimate the taller standing chap as being, say, 5 foot-9 inch US (so, an upper-average man-height) - that stamped road-wheel looks to be about 1/3 his height (2.2cm wheel next to a 7.0cm guy as measured on my screen), so would be around 22.5 US inch in diameter. So... IF that turret hatch-cover rim-to-rim is really say 3/4 of this wheel's diameter ... it would be perhaps only 17 inches in diameter! And that would be it's outer rim diameter, not the man-hole it covers and your figure fits through!

Yikes! It's been a long long time since ever I could squeeze through a 16-inch pipe or port-hole!

I think I will stick with what the kit supplies! Looks like, small as it appears, it could be pretty close to scale right size!

And see the other pics at...

http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php/3357-Antitank-Rifles-amp-Machineguns/page5

These are IMPORTANT to us if we want to make that very special EW 141 AT rifle barrel (the "main gun" on the 1C) look right! You can really see EVERYTHING in these pics! And a bit of nice detail around that turret hatch, to boot!


Bob

Hey jeff, I vote for the sturer emil, just a cool looking SPG!

See what I mean?They are all cool,so how do I pick one Jeff T.