Hi all,

Got a question about the 5cm PAK38 and 7,5cm PAK40 AT-guns.

I need to know weather their wheelbase has the same size or not And, if not, how big the difference is ! (hope it is correct english, otherwise maybe a dutch member can help me with "wielbasis")

Grt,
Martin

Hi Martin,
There were different wheels for these pieces: open and closed. I'm not sure if both Pak 38 and Pak 40 had different wheels. If seen pictures of both guns with the same wheels:


So there is a fair chance that the weelbase (correct word) is the same.

fair = redelijk in dutch right ?

thanks for the pics Nord !

Grt

Yup, you got it fair, ehrm right there. :-)
On the site I linkes the pictures from , there are more pictures to be found:
http://www.thetankmaster.com/artillery.asp

I have seen those picture already after a quick search with Google But it's a little hard to see wheter these guns have the same size wheelbase

I see what you mean. Maybe I can check it at home in one of my books. I'll see what I can do...

maybe ít's better if I say I need to know wheter the distance between the wheels is the same or not !

I knew you ment that. What do you need this info for anyway?

It's for a friend of mine...he works in a museum !!

grt

Cool! I thought usually musea have more info than your average mortal modeller?
As said, I will have a look this weekend...

Scaling some 1/76 drawings I have from Terry Ganders old Almark book I get 65" for the PaK 38 and 66.5 for the PaK40. Now these measurements are to the centre of the wheel. The PaK 40 wheels are wider than the PaK38s so the outside measurements will show a bigger difference in overall width.

Wheelbase isn't really the right word for this, as we are finding out. I think wheel track would be better, but I think we are all on the same page now anyway... :-)

Paul Roberts
President
Armor Modeling and Preservation Society

Thanks Paul, you're the saviour here, as I have not been able to find anything usable.

ok thanks, I'm sure that anwser will do :-)