After seeing CanadianAR cool tail section of a ME109 and all that he did in acquiring it
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...erschmitt-BF-109G-Vertical-stabilizer-cit-off
I thought I would post a bit of a follow on to it, certainly not a direct or cool but low cost and kind of neat in its own way. So a buddy of mine gave me three beat to st!t Kübel doors for a idea I had brewing in my head for a while. The early Kübel WH249624 that was captured (found) in Tunisia when the Afrika Korps had to vacate Africa was sent to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in the USA for testing and study.
https://www.icollector.com/ORIGINAL-1941-TYPE-82-VOLKSWAGEN-KUBELWAGEN_i17332733
^ The car at auction and pics for detail
That Kübel is now in the UK and lived a pretty interesting and well traveled life and as its DAK markings are all original I just needed a door to copy for a simple, fun, and easy project. So here it is.
Using the pics of the original doors markings and the pressed ribs for sizing I played around with a photo copier till it looked about right. The dunkel gelb is not the correct desert (brushed on) paint for the DAK but its good enough. Note this is the early door with riveted hinges my later doors are the welded type. After the door came a correct field modded door handle, field modded by cutting off about a inch to prevent the circular shape scratch in the paint work.
Talking about paint the door had 1. original (early PZ gray) 2. a coat of post Feb 43 Dunkel Gelb then 3. some flat grey god only knows what. I wanted to retain the dings, dents and rust AND the original circular scratch some some surgical masking off was calling for.
Once the Americans had studied the captured Kübelwagen WH249624 they went on to produced a manual for Kübels that if you have ever seen a wartime TM manual for American vehicles like the jeep looks AMAZINGLY similar (the E is for enemy BTW )
^ Note the publication date
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...erschmitt-BF-109G-Vertical-stabilizer-cit-off
I thought I would post a bit of a follow on to it, certainly not a direct or cool but low cost and kind of neat in its own way. So a buddy of mine gave me three beat to st!t Kübel doors for a idea I had brewing in my head for a while. The early Kübel WH249624 that was captured (found) in Tunisia when the Afrika Korps had to vacate Africa was sent to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in the USA for testing and study.
https://www.icollector.com/ORIGINAL-1941-TYPE-82-VOLKSWAGEN-KUBELWAGEN_i17332733
^ The car at auction and pics for detail
That Kübel is now in the UK and lived a pretty interesting and well traveled life and as its DAK markings are all original I just needed a door to copy for a simple, fun, and easy project. So here it is.
Using the pics of the original doors markings and the pressed ribs for sizing I played around with a photo copier till it looked about right. The dunkel gelb is not the correct desert (brushed on) paint for the DAK but its good enough. Note this is the early door with riveted hinges my later doors are the welded type. After the door came a correct field modded door handle, field modded by cutting off about a inch to prevent the circular shape scratch in the paint work.
Talking about paint the door had 1. original (early PZ gray) 2. a coat of post Feb 43 Dunkel Gelb then 3. some flat grey god only knows what. I wanted to retain the dings, dents and rust AND the original circular scratch some some surgical masking off was calling for.
Once the Americans had studied the captured Kübelwagen WH249624 they went on to produced a manual for Kübels that if you have ever seen a wartime TM manual for American vehicles like the jeep looks AMAZINGLY similar (the E is for enemy BTW )
^ Note the publication date
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