https://www.ebay.com/itm/GIRLS-UND-PANZ ... 1838687490
At the price of a Trumpeter, maybe the Trumpeter would make more sense..

PainlessWolf wrote:Good afternoon,
I think I remember hearing that the General has one of these and RC'd it. Other personages of note may as well. *Looks at Sassgrunt* ;o)
regards and a great find, Roy,
Painless
Yes, I may even invest in one myself if they're still available here. The very fact that they have the correct angle on the rear engine deck, and correct engine event louvre configuration already ticks some of the crucial boxes: the ones leading to that almost irresistible 'buy!' urge.PainlessWolf wrote:Hello again!
It is easily almost the size of the 1/6 scale Stuart that I am working on. The 'General' noted that it was quite large.
regards,
Painless
Thanks for the insight, Mike, and the mini-review. By the way, that was a very nice gesture on the part of the General!.sassgrunt wrote:Actually, the General surprised me with one of these as a Christmas present a couple years ago; knowing how much I like early Panzer IV's, (and how much I lusted after this one in particular). He bought himself the later long-barreled version, which didn't appeal to me as much. It is 49cm long by 24cm wide, and they put a lot of effort into getting the details correct. Drive sprocket and idler: solid (not louvered) engine deck; smoke discharger on top of the early exhaust muffler, and even the skinny turret traverse muffler of the D model as well. Those are details that even the 1/16 manufacturers have trouble with. Hatches all open for the figures, (yes, there ARE optional G&P figures, but they cost as much as the tank itself)!
Roadwheels have hollow backs, and I find it is more trouble than it's worth to try to remove and correct them. Along with the roadwheels, my only real gripe with it is the giant rubber band tracks. Not very flexible, and they don't look all that great anyway. I opted to use a set of 1/16 KV-1 tracks, and cut the ends of each link on a diagonal. They don't look quite right, but it takes you awhile to figure out why not, (and by then, it will have moved on, I hope). The only real problem I had with that idea was removing the drive sprockets (you have to destroy the hub to get at the retaining screw, because they must have hired the Heng Long glue monkey to install them.
Although the General paints his vehicles up in strict G&P schemes; I have always wanted to build a model of the 2nd Panzer Division tank that claimed to have sunk a destroyer off the port of Boulogne, France on 23 May 1940. They painted a cartoon destroyer on the back wall of the turret, and I always thought it was cool. (Of course, there is quite a bit of skepticism over what actually sunk the ship, as sources claimed it was also attacked by JU-87 Stukas at the same time). Hey, whatever - I like the bravado that the tank crew showed in even going up against it!