“Hey Ostwind, did you make the diorama?”
No.
VK 601 ( panzer 1 ausf. C)
Note: the EW-141 was a fancy designation for a 20mm KWK 38 with minor modifications.
In Normandy , the guns had a muzzle cover.
Profile. The Versuchs Ketten /Pz Ausf 1 C was an german attemp for a tank like the british Tetrarch or the American M22 Locust.
pretty panzer 
Some of those wheels look like dust bin lids!
It is really a funny tank.
Henk
Several pics showing how to carry the Maus in his special 14 wheleed train car.
Great pics mate. They waste too much time on the Maus. Is this the one that has the mock turret in the Russian museum today?
Henk
Probably, The russian made his Maus with a nonturreted vehicle and the parts of others 2 still in factory.
Ok, now I see.
Henk
188 t. crazy tank.
Another weird one the heavy “support vehicle” panzer 1 ausf F.
This heavy vehicle was not a “blitzkrieg” tank because his slowness, What was used for ? No idea, I accept suggestions.
In first instance Panzerkampfwagen 1 was intended as a training tank. Design started in 1932. Henschel produced the first 3 prototypes in December 1933. Krauss-Maffei completed 30 pieces of Panzerkampfwagen 1 Ausf F from April to December 1942.
I think that my question fit into this “panzer thread”.
If not Moderator can move it.
Look at the picture:
They are unmistakenly Panthers Ausfierung D. Tracks looks strange…
Do you know why they tensioned them like that?
Here you can see “normal” Panther Ausf D:
Cheers,
Lancer44
This is special present for Panzerknacker:
150mm howitzer mounted onto Vickers tank chassis.
It was called "15cm leFh 16auf Fqst Geschutzwagen MkVI(e)
Lancer44
Great pics Lancer!
They are unmistakenly Panthers Ausfierung D. Tracks looks strange…
Do you know why they tensioned them like that?
Interesting, maybe they ran out of track and had to just make do with what they had, which meant less links to go round?
In first instance Panzerkampfwagen 1 was intended as a training tank. Design started in 1932. Henschel produced the first 3 prototypes in December 1933. Krauss-Maffei completed 30 pieces of Panzerkampfwagen 1 Ausf F from April to December 1942.
Yea, the “normal” Panzer 1 was for training, nevertheless the VK-1801/ausf F had no relation with the light 5 ton vehicle. I had a book about rare Panzers I will scan something later.
This is special present for Panzerknacker
Thanks.
You refer to teh Panzer Mk1 F as a support vehicle. I may well have been an infantry support vehicle (it’s weaponry suggests such a role in the form of twin machine guns) so would not need speed nor (if it was attached to infantry) would it be a Blitz wagon with the requirement to keep up with the rest of the mainly mechanised Blitz weaponry.
The whole photo just looks wrong somehow. Could they be scale models?
pdf27 wrote:
The whole photo just looks wrong somehow. Could they be scale models?
I think so too. This photo comes from this site:
http://www.panzer-reich.co.uk/
There is an extensive gallery but all photos are without any explanations.
Look at “mixed color”
I think that at least some of them are post-war movies sets.
Lancer44