Lately I've begun adding prime movers to my growing collection of 1/35th-scale anti-aircraft guns. During the course of researching German half-tracks, I discovered a photo of a vehicle which has thusfar defied identification. The photo, on page 81 in Hans Seidler's Luftwaffe Flak and Field Divisions 1939-1945, shows what at first glance seems to be an Sd. Kfz. 7, with Luftwaffe license plates, towing an 8.8cm Flak 18. (Seidler dates the photo to 1942.) On closer examination, however, one notes something very odd about the arrangement of the drive sprockets and road wheels. The sprockets, 8-spoked wheels and idlers appear to be those of the Sd. Kfz. 7, but the arrangement is the same as for the Sd. Kfz 250, with only four interleaved road wheels per side; from the front, an innie behind the drive sprocket, an outie, innie, outie, and the idler wheel. The superstructure on the vehicle appears for the most part to be that of the Sd. Kfz. 7, but the drive sprocket is set well aft of the driver's seat, and the fender is shortened commensurately.
Does anyone out there know what this is? Any help would be greatly appreciated.