Tank stoppers

yes they are easy to make. just take some angle stock, flat stock ( I'm not sure on the scale thicknesses or size) and glue, add weld seams, and paint 'n weather. they r made up of three lengths of angle-iron(stock), with several triangle shaped flat pieces for added strength.

Panzerhindernis they are called in German. They stand 1.7meters high by 1.7 meters wide. (Thats 48.6mm in 1/35th scale, and that's height and width, not the length of the angle iron). 1/4 inch Evergreen styrene angle iron should work fine. They have notches cut in the ends so they can be cabled together at the bases and staked to the ground. Usually placed in multiple rows, (3 rows are common), spaced 3 meters apart. Taken from Bildheft Neuzeitlicher Stellungsbau, 1942.

hi,if you want to you can buy a kit from Italeri #401 barricades,ww 2 in 1;35 . i hope i have been of some help.

gdarwin[roy]

I think you are talking about the things that were on the beach. They were origianally designed to rip through the bottom of the landing crafts during high tide. But when the allies landed at low tide it had another purpose.

Panzerhindernis were in use years before D-Day and on all fronts, by virtually all combatants. In North Africa, the Eastern Front, in Italy, anywhere there were tanks, so there were "Hedgehogs", not just D-Day landing beaches.

Weren't they called Rommel's asparagus or something like that?

Those are the wooden poles driven into the ground in open fields, used to stop glider landings.

Here's what you want, straight from German Field Works of World War II;



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thats the ones i was talking about, thanks everyone for going to the trouble of answering my question...muchly appreciated

Dave