Sd Kfz 231 Heavy Reconnaisance Armored Car in 1/6 scale

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Sd Kfz 231 Heavy Reconnaisance Armored Car in 1/6 scale

Post by egonzinc » 28 Feb 2022 17:12

Sd Kfz 231 Heavy Reconnaisance Armored Car
Aufklarungs Abt 371
1.(schwere) Zug
7th Panzer Division
France, May 1940

The “eyes” of the Panzer Division were provided by the “Aufklarungs Abteilung” or reconnaissance unit. Every Panzer Division had one. In 1940 the first Company was designated “schwere” or heavy company and was made up of three six wheeled 231 armored cars and three eight wheeled 231 armored cars.
Basic model was made by a modeller in Barcelona Spain. You can contact him through his wife's FB account: Mercedes Pallares. For WIP images and many more images of the vehicle and crew, you can go to my FB page "Egonzinc 1/6"
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Re: Sd Kfz 231 Heavy Reconnaisance Armored Car in 1/6 scale

Post by egonzinc » 28 Feb 2022 17:15

Here some more images of the new crew I made for this vehicle and the vehicle probing "my countryside"!
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Re: Sd Kfz 231 Heavy Reconnaisance Armored Car in 1/6 scale

Post by egonzinc » 28 Feb 2022 17:19

And a couple of more images ...
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Re: Sd Kfz 231 Heavy Reconnaisance Armored Car in 1/6 scale

Post by Erich-SA » 21 Apr 2022 16:12

Very impressive ensemble!
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Re: Sd Kfz 231 Heavy Reconnaisance Armored Car in 1/6 scale

Post by JonOlsen234 » 04 Feb 2023 18:57

One of the most realistic models I've ever seen.

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Re: Sd Kfz 231 Heavy Reconnaisance Armored Car in 1/6 scale

Post by ShindenKai » 05 Feb 2023 02:45

Absolutely fantastic work! I had to do a double-triple take to realize it was a model. Only things that gave it away was the tires, too clean and no load on them. But seriously exceptional work!!!

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Re: Sd Kfz 231 Heavy Reconnaisance Armored Car in 1/6 scale

Post by gebhk » 05 Feb 2023 10:52

What Shindenkai said. The figures are fantastic too - love the 'posing for a photo' look, commonplace on period photos.

The only thing I might question is the introductory passage. AFAIK 7th Panzer in France had a fairly standard AA with two standard armoured car companies, neither being 'heavy'. There was a heavy 'zug' (ie platoon) in each company with three SdKfz 231 and three SdKfz 232 (the 232 being the same basic vehicle as 231, but equipped with radio). While these could be 6-wheelers or 8-wheelers, I doubt that the two chassis types would be mixed in the same platoon because that just causes logistical problems. Of course in practice all sorts of things happened so I don't dismiss what you wrote - it's just a question.

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