Okay gang, is this AI?
If not, have any of you seen this side armor before? Also, looks like it has an added plate on the upper glacis.
The skull over the NoTek lamp, it doesn’t look right.
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Skull is not right, but I’ve seen the odd side armor somewhere else.
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Looks like it was from this unit: Armorama :: Peko Publishing StuG Abt 202 Review
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I noticed some Chinese kid posted that the video was AI garbage and not real “because the Panzer III NEVER had side plates like that” in very snooty internet lingo so I linked him the book title and ISBN number and informed him he had just been roasted online.
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So… how were they attached?
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Steel brackets welded to the hull between the road wheels and return rollers.
Would they even stop a rifle caliber bullet??
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That’s so fake, looks like a chrome alien skull
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Well done. Not roasting. Educating. When I think back to all of the “written in stone” truths that I learned from the Panzer Color and other books from the seventies and eighties, and how the end of the Cold War opened up the deluge of news source material that shattered so many myths, I’ve been very happy to be educated on new discoveries.
Well done!
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You guys that have actually shot real bullets through various materials, what do you think? Biggles, I’ll say yes, they would stop some caliber bullets. I base that on what I read about US Cavalry units using “reconnaissance by fire”. .30 calibers would not punch through houses or even thick foilage as well as .50 calibers would. I read the same thing about why they ditched M1 carbines in favor of heavier bulkier M1 Garands.
You guys who know ballistics and kinetic force of Soviet weapons, what do you think? Those planks look to be about 2-in. thick. You think they would degrade the projectile of a Soviet AT rifle enough to keep it from penetrating the thin side armor?
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On a side note, there’s a resin set available from MrModellbau
H.P.
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These wooden skirt plates helped to camouflage and blur vulnerable spots. It made it much harder for Russian soldiers with Anti Tank rifles to aim for these vulnerable spots.
Another reason was that it could activate early fuse activation so the fuse on HEAT rounds could be activated before hitting the actual armor. That would reduce the impact.
With other words they tried these wood panels as a DIY solution. Same reason why they mounted spare Tank track links
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It was a placebo if it was used for protection. It was most likely thought to help camouflage some how. The Russian anti tank rifles 14mm round were way to effective at 500 M.
Quick reference to steel skirts Spaced armour - Wikipedia .
For me it looks cool as it would make a great refreshing model.
Cheers,
Todd
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