Model: 35113 Scale: 1/35
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/in-process-sd-kfz-251-8-ausf-a-krankenpanzerwagen-wwii-german-ambulance
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/in-process-sd-kfz-251-8-ausf-a-krankenpanzerwagen-wwii-german-ambulance
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Looks good. Only question I have is were any Ausf A vehicles actually built as Krankenpanzerwagen? I thought they came in with the Ausf C?
http://www.kfzderwehrmacht.de/Hauptseite_deutsch/Kraftfahrzeuge/Deutschland/Hanomag/m__SPW/Sd__Kfz__251-08/sd__kfz__251-08.html
Series production started with Ausf. C
BUT
many older Ausf. A and B were rebuilt to 251/8 versions
The complete (??) map of types, ausführungen and dates
http://www.kfzderwehrmacht.de/Hauptseite_deutsch/Kraftfahrzeuge/Deutschland/Hanomag/m__SPW/m__spw.html
mmm-hmmmm
The front of the Ausf. A reminds me of a coffin
the one on the left …
Possibly not the best visual association for an ambulance,
“abandon hope all ye who enter here”
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I misread the title as 1/8 scale!
I had an idea of putting a glass top on it and use it as a small coffee table 
Yes, I believe I’d read that also, but was this at troop level, i.e. field modifications or damaged vehicles returned to the Reich for rebuild? I wonder how many Ausf As were still in service by say, 1943. I’d say not many. Early production of the Ausf A and B was very small scale not like the later Ausf C and D (the most produced version). Since it’s ICM, it may be cheap enough to buy to do a kit bash with an Ausf D from another manufacturer. This was the route I took when DML brought out their C Flammpanzer, the interior and certain other details were attached to a Tamiya D (the best available at the time). Of course DML then brought out the D version immediately I’d finished!
ICM has only released the A version so that is the design they are basing each subvariant of the 251 on.
I already have an extra Tamiya ‘C’ I might try to convert.