Can anyone tell me how late this version of the Gerry halftrack with rocketes was used untill, I want to do a 1945 battle of berlin dio with this a s the main peice. Also was it used by the Waffen SS?

Here's waht I have gathered for you... (i actually stole it from Tamiya's website )

About the German Sd.Kfz. 251/1 Stuka zu Fuss

It was shortly after the invasion of Russia in 1941, that the German Wehrmacht began to seriously consider a necessity of increasing firepower in their motorized infantry formations. By applying some simple modifications to he Sd.Kfz. 251 infantry half-track, they partially fulfilled this requirement. One of these variants was designated the "Sd.Kfz. 251/1 mit Wurfrahmen" (the Sd.Kfz. 251/1 with launching frames). It was adapted for six, externally mounted frames housing short-range rockets of 28cm and 32cm size. The wooden or metal rocket containers were used as shipping crates during transport, and were attached to base plates on the sides of the vehicle for firing. Aiming direction was provided by pointing the vehicle at the target. Two rods were attached on the front of the engine hood, to help the driver align the vehicle on the target. Elevation was adjusted by changing the angle of the container mounting plate. The rockets were fired electrically from inside the vehicle. With an effective range of more than 2000 meters, the rockets provided the German infantrymen with effective fire support against close in area targets. This highly effective half-track was affectionately called the "Stuka zu Fuss", or Stuka on foot, taken from the German Ju87 series dive bombing aircraft.

Sounds like a good idea.

Berlin ordered the development of the Wurfrahmen 40 after the campaign in France in 1940. They appear to have been built on the 251/1 Ausf. A, B, C, and D chasis. Knowning the German Army, as long as they had ammo for the thing, they used right up until the surrender in 1945, if not as an artillery piece, then as an Infrantry transport and MG vehicle. Depending on what unit you are going to depict, I would check to see if that unit had any of those types of vehicles issued to it. That normally how I start a Dio.

I think it would fit right in. It is an excellent vehicle. Send us some pic's when your done.
Recon

I think I remember the consensus from over on Missing Links was that the firing was NOT done from nside the vehicle, but from a distance like the nebelweffer.

I could be wrong.

Sounds like an interesting idea. In one of the Battle for Belin books, I forget which at the moment, an SS nco reported finding a large supply of either these or nebelweffer rockets and proping them up and firing them off towards the advancing soviets.

so another idea might be a figure improvising a launching stage frm the rubble..

MD