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It 'just what did the men of 653 heavy tank destroyer battalion, being short of resources, thought it best to obtain a welding the new destroyer turret of a Panzer IV H on the hull of one of the wagons in their recovery Bergepanther Facilities:

The armament consisted of a 75mm cannon and a 7.92mm coaxial machine gun.

The tower was not swivel, so the shot was half full at the target, as any other German tank destroyer of the time.

Queued you see the exhaust and the jack lifting, coupled between the mufflers:

From above we can see the brackets that hold the shell spacing of the turret. This was very innovative idea: instead of increasing the thickness, and thus the weight, the armor could be made more efficient by placing a second layer at a short distance, so that the bullets explode before they come into contact with the medium.

The crew portrait in a moment of quiet, wearing the uniform of a tank crewman in the Its two main versions: black and green-cane field.

The badges are bordered in pink, indicating the membership of the armored troops:

Given the uniqueness of the medium, there are only two photographs, from which, however, not clear if the staining was in simple Dunkelgelb (yellow-ocher) or three-color camouflage (ocher, green and tan), the sources are divided, then, after careful consideration, I opted for the camouflage version .

of 1:35 Italeri plastic model, with a turret gun in resin and brass figures of MIG and Tamiya.
E 'was necessary to rebuild part of the mantle of the gun with the plasticard, with whom I have also realized the door of the commander and the extra armor. The figures have been adjusted to the tower to make sure that you are perfectly lean. Camouflage and coats are hand painted with a wash of color for smoke mix everything. The tracks have been a wash in ocher, and the mufflers were stained in black and covered with dry brush in brown-red.
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