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This is part two of a seven part photo collection covering the WWII German use of Field Kitchens, or Gulaschkanone. The first part covered field kitchens mounted on trucks, this section covers them being under tow either by truck, armoured vehicle or horse, as well as in use on trains.
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Over the past month or so I’ve been slowly working through organising all the photos I have saved on my computer. I have a tendency when researching something to save anything and everything that looks interesting in case I might need it some day so I seldom know where it came from and sometimes that’s a pain as I have no captions and no idea what the setting is for many.
Anyway, I’m slowly getting these into organised folders so I though that I’d share them on here. I started a month or so back by doing all the various mounted 8.8cm FlaK guns and the lot I’ve just finished organising is German Field Kitchens which includes mobile Bakeries, related photos and foreign Field Kitchens in German use.
I was collecting all these for a diorama that will have five appliances in it but until I sat down to organise these I didn’t realise that I had over 250 photos of them. So I’ve broken them down into seven parts and will post them over the next few weeks. This is part one and shows various kitchens mounted on the backs of trucks. With the IBG kit of a truck mounted Field Kitchen on the way I thought this a good one to start with.
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8.8cm Flak 37 Selbstfahrlafette auf 18 ton Zugkraftwagen Sd.Kfz.9
“FlaK FAMO”
This is a collection of photos I’ve put together over the past 18 months. As far as I know these photos are the only ones that are publicly available and they were accumulated for the purposes of building the Alliance Model Works conversion with the Tamiya Sd.Kfz.9. They’re handy for anyone building that, the Tiger Models version, or just their own version.
As well as the photos found online I’ve added this series of close-ups that I have enhanced as much as I’m able to so as to show some of the lesser covered features and where I think existing kit options have missed a few points. The first few focus on the seating and show folding seats both front and rear, both folded up when in action. The next couple show that the back of the cab is open as you can see background scenery through the vision ports. This makes sense as the radio operator is in the front and needs to be able to communicate with the crew ( the back of the cab on the armoured S.dKfz.7 is also open with a curtain ). The last few show that the engine covers aren’t flat ones that are opened but rather that the back third is bent outwards. It’s also worth noting that the vehicle bearing the name “Marder”, photographed in Italy, and the very first photo show vehicles built on the later F3 chassis.
With Trumpeter about to release their kit of the Sd.Kfz.8 12ton halftrack mounting the 8.8cm FlaK 18 I though this a good time to hunt out all the photos I’ve been collecting of these over the years so as to be able to build one if one ever became available ( or if I ever gave in and bought the Des Kit Sd.Kfz.8 and converted it ). These are all I have collected, some aren’t really clear enough to use as reference for a build, and a handful show the same photo but where one version is the full photo and the other an enlarged section of it.
AMMS Brisbane and AMMS Sydney, two Australian sites for modelling groups similar to AMPS in having a focus on armour ( AMMS stands for Australian Military Modelling Society ). There’s a lot of good reference material here, a lot of good walkarounds and a lot of inspiring builds. Well worth checking out ( the Sydney site appears to be undergoing a relaunch as a new site so not all the links are working right now ).
So these have now been added to our “Reference Links” page, which is a page that is getting to the point where it needs a few subcategories.
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