Bulgarian site for German Panzers
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:45 pm
Hi Guys,
I have just found this Bulgarian site which has some incredible photos of all the German Panzers that were buried in concrete or simply buried in the ground with either the turret left exposed or in the case of the STuG's / JagdPanzers buried so that just the limited traverse of the gun could be used......
http://www.airgroup2000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30326
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This single thread is 85-: yes :- Eighty Five pages long and contains some amazing photos of German armour that is being dug up and restored or I guess sold to be restored. The site is available in English but I could not then find the particular thread and I wanted to copy the pictures, just in case the site vanished... I took about 340 images from the one thread.
One excellent thing that it DOES prove....Is the answer to the question of 'Rusty Tracks' on a tank....The answer is a no they do not turn into solid red/ brown rusty strips.. as the photos show. They are rusty ( but NOT the horrible rust that we see on cars) , even after being buried in soil for 60 odd years.....a quick trip down the road and they would be shiney and dirty but Not solid rust !!
The site also shows the quality of the armour plate AND the welds on the armour......Even though the armour plate is showing surface rust some of the welds have turned a bright silver ...at first I thought that they were new welds done by the restorers but the silver welds are present even on the Panzers that are still buried !!...do we have any welders who could come up with a reason why the welds are silver ?? .
Does anyone fancy opening their 'Piggy Banks', hiring a low loader and just popping over to Bulgaria to pick up a 1:1 scale STuG or a Panzer IV as their next project ??
I have just found this Bulgarian site which has some incredible photos of all the German Panzers that were buried in concrete or simply buried in the ground with either the turret left exposed or in the case of the STuG's / JagdPanzers buried so that just the limited traverse of the gun could be used......
http://www.airgroup2000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30326
.
This single thread is 85-: yes :- Eighty Five pages long and contains some amazing photos of German armour that is being dug up and restored or I guess sold to be restored. The site is available in English but I could not then find the particular thread and I wanted to copy the pictures, just in case the site vanished... I took about 340 images from the one thread.
One excellent thing that it DOES prove....Is the answer to the question of 'Rusty Tracks' on a tank....The answer is a no they do not turn into solid red/ brown rusty strips.. as the photos show. They are rusty ( but NOT the horrible rust that we see on cars) , even after being buried in soil for 60 odd years.....a quick trip down the road and they would be shiney and dirty but Not solid rust !!
The site also shows the quality of the armour plate AND the welds on the armour......Even though the armour plate is showing surface rust some of the welds have turned a bright silver ...at first I thought that they were new welds done by the restorers but the silver welds are present even on the Panzers that are still buried !!...do we have any welders who could come up with a reason why the welds are silver ?? .
Does anyone fancy opening their 'Piggy Banks', hiring a low loader and just popping over to Bulgaria to pick up a 1:1 scale STuG or a Panzer IV as their next project ??