Gruson Fahrpanzer

This is a project from the last week, for a local hobby club, a Gruson Fahrpanzer (one man small bunker with a cannon). Used by the Bulgarian army in in World War I, 30 were bought from the 5.7cm variant. I designed it with the small 3.7 cm cannon and 5.7cm cannon. Separate parts for the turret, body, wheels and cannon. I will print it the next days.

I hope you like it :slight_smile:

Cheers!

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What scale are you printing it at?

Hi, the scale is 1/35. It is small, for one person.
Cheers!

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Your just doing the exterior and not any of the interior?

For now only exterior, that was the request, interior will took more time, but I will design it.
Regards!

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Love it. So quirky.

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Really interesting. Will you be making the gun carriage also? Will you be selling copies?

Cheers,
C.

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The majority of Farpanzer had a two man crew commander/loader and gunner. I think only the original proposals were single man crew although I must admit there were numerous design variations and several gun sizes fitted over the years.

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Nice subject. I made one years ago way before 3D printing existed. It is 1/24th scale for a Swiss mountain fortress diorama. See at this link. Gnother Casemate Layout - The GnATTERbox

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I’m considering making carriage also, an yes, if there is interest I will sell copies.
Regards!

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Thank you for the info!
Nice diorama you did, cheers!

Thanks for the response. I’d be interested. Let me knowi if you decide on making the carriage and what the likley cost would be.

Cheers,
C.

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Add me to the list of interested people.

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Looks nice I think :slight_smile:

Cheers!

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Cannot wait to see you have that under paint. :+1:

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Wow that really looks good. As well as the mobile self-contained systems the German also used the turret on some of their early post WW1 armoured trains. The turret was mounted on a 4 wheel open style high side cargo wagon with the top enclosed.

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