WW2 era German headlight lens

[STHV]

Does anyone sell headlight diffusers for German ww2 era tanks?

[Lo_Thar]

RCTank.de for example

[43rdRecceReg]

Something like this, perhaps?

https://www.rctank.de/ACCESSORIES_20

[STHV]

Something like this, perhaps?

https://www.rctank.de/ACCESSORIES_20

I should have specified lol

I meant the diffusers inside the later Bosch headlights on vehicles like Panther

Like this

[43rdRecceReg]

I see. Well, finding a glass diffuser based on a WW2 Bosch design might be a tall order. You could use the one fitted to the Taigen T34 Spotlight, perhaps.

T34 Spot lamp diffuser

I can't think of any other examples offhand. These glasses should probably fit standard Taigen headlights on the Pz IV and Pz 111. I used them on my Comet A34 headlights.
If you keep digging, you may find something more appropriate.

[jarndice]

As Eastern says a "Diffuser" is a headlight with a slit for use in blackout conditions.
Two types are available from --- www.hagen-miniatures.de
A Flat cover and a Dished Cover, both are 1.17 euros a pair plus post.

[43rdRecceReg]

Well, its technically not a diffuser as much as it is a multi faceted lens designed to focus a beam of light at specific angles. The same could be said of the old style headlights, low beam vs high beam. Low beam cut lens directs light in a wide arch where as a high beam lens is a tighter beam directing most the light farther. A diffuser would be the cover over the light with the small slit opening.

Cheers!

Which is why I posted the pic of the blackout (Notek) lamp available at rc.tank.de. This type of lamp was fitted was fitted to the Panther and the Panzer IV. Taigen also offer a version of it.
Here's the type with the slit:

Panzer 111 blackout headlight

Taigen Tiger headlight

Taigen Notek light

Notek light.jpg (50.17 KiB) Viewed 2280 times

These, then are the types available. Forgebear sells them, and so does Dominique at rc.tank. I always thought of the glass on a headlight as the 'lens'. A diffuser would be the sort of light diverting sticker that British cars' headlamps would need when used on European Roads. (Formerly known as 'the wrong side of the road'... )
Seems to be a terminological issue here. Nevertheless, these are the only options available, that I could find. Fiat Lux!

[STHV]

I didn't really know what to call it so i just went with diffuser lol
Sorry for any confusion

[Son of a gun-ner]

Light Diffuser.
a part of a lighting fixture consisting of a translucent or frosted covering or of a rough reflector: used to scatter the light and prevent glare.
From the dictionary. . . . Just saying.

Therefore it makes the light spread out evenly. All lamp glass with moulding is used to diffuse light in whatever way is intended, and can be more noticeable from above, below and from the sides.

A blackout screen with a slit concentrates the bean and stops the diffusing created by the glass, thereby it stops the light beam being more noticeable from the top, bottom and sides. You have to be directly in front to notice the light unless it rejects off of something directly in front of it to cause reflected diffusion.
Which means it is in place to negate the diffusing of the lamp glass.

[43rdRecceReg]

Light Diffuser.
a part of a lighting fixture consisting of a translucent or frosted covering or of a rough reflector: used to scatter the light and prevent glare.
From the dictionary. . . . Just saying.

Therefore it makes the light spread out evenly. All lamp glass with moulding is used to diffuse light in whatever way is intended, and can be more noticeable from above, below and from the sides.

A blackout screen with a slit concentrates the bean and stops the diffusing created by the glass, thereby it stops the light beam being more noticeable from the top, bottom and sides. You have to be directly in front to notice the light unless it rejects off of something directly in front of it to cause reflected diffusion.
Which means it is in place to negate the diffusing of the lamp glass.

...and hence, the T-34 lens/diffuser/refractor I posted earlier should just about fit the bill. I don't imagine there's anywhere in the model world, where an exact replica of the WW2 headlamp glass, with its unique refractive properties, can be had in 1/16
scale...unless a modelling magician has printed one.