I bought this little bugger because of the wrong tracks I received for a Kettenkrad. While it is buildable, the kit has a profound identity crisis. It has features of both Vk3.01 in the cargo area and in the back, and of vk3.02 elsewhere. To complicate things the pictures on the nets feature it with the latter Borgward mine laying machine.
Still have some some parts to add and waiting for the CustomScale corrected bins, but here are some pictures
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How did the kit build up?
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Goodish, but the 2 wheel disks are keyed with barely visible marks that don’t work that well. And the suspension arms are small and fiddly.
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Now that is a very interesting model; I was tinkering with the idea of it being used sort of DR '46-ish, as an airborne assault vehicle - kinda Wehrmacht BMD if you get my drift(!)
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There were some 26 built in 41-42, so the 46 timeframe seem not very plausible.
But on the other hand, one of this vehicles was converted to an spg to be used by the airborne troops. so the BMD connection is there.
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Problem will be that there was no rear-ramp transport plane in that time period. Like a 1946 Luftlandewaffenträger Wiesel?
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Borgward Wanze?
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Buying aftermarket tracks was a good idea. The kit ones aren’t great and yes that suspension is weak.
I didn’t find out about the Custom Scale set until after I built mine. Maybe I’ll try it again?
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O.K. Forgot about the Me 323 Gigant.
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Just to be clear, first I got the tracks because of a shopping mistake. I would have probably not bought the kit otherwise. and maybe building the spg would have been cheaper
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Those Das Werk Borgwards are cool little models. A few months back, I built the E-5. It turned out to be an unusually petulant Borgward.
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Im glad that you did build it. What references are out there for this vehicle?
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I have used VK 3.01 & VK 3.02 and inferences…
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