Below there is an atypical vehicle for WWII Germans, I think that you do not see quite often such things,but I hope you will enjoy it...:)
I like a lot the reference photo featuring that vehicle, so I decided to scratch-build such a cart.
Statistics point out that almost 80% from the WWII German Army land transport was horse-drawn, not only standard vehicles but also plenty of civil carts and wagons being put into requisition by Wehrmacht.
The present vehicle tries to portray a farm cart put into requisition and used by Wehrmacht, as it appears in a reference image shot probably on the Eastern front (according to the fence seen in the back-ground). The general aspect of the horse shows that most probably it was not an army one, also taken from a peasant for serving with the German Army (common practice in Wehrmacht). The figure was heavily converted for matching as close as possible with the real soldier.
The engine (horse) is Preiser but with modified position of neck and tail, scratch-built from hard plastic neck collar, head harness and reins while the rings of the collar are made of metal wire.
The body of the cart was scratched from Italeri's napolonian gun emplacement with scratched photo-etched reinforcements, scratch-built from various materials device for fixing the wheels, wheels from Pegasus Hobbies' IG 18 gun, wooden bars from Italeri's check point set and the traces are made of metal wire.
The figure is modified Preiser and the cloth is made of paper tissue. Ammo boxes are of an unknown resin manufacturer and there are also some other scratch-built things.
I hope you willl enjoy both the vehicle and its paintwork and suggestions and critics are highly welcome.
Cristian Florescu
