AFV Modeller - Issue 17 - 3 - SdKfz 250 mit 5cm Pak.pdf - AFV Modeller - robaczek696

By Rudi Meir

A fter buying the excellent

daytrip, so the idea for building the model

was shelved until I met Pekka Toivonen a

Finnish modeller at Euromilitaire.

Earlier that year he had taken some

pictures of the vehicle, I was ready to kiss

him but luckily he was more than happy

with a pint !

When the pictures arrived I was a little

disappointed as there were only three

pictures from the interior but they were

excellent quality. The pictures show all the

gunmount detail I needed to build the

mount but for the rest the interior was

completely empty, no floor no driver’s

seat…nothing, only rubbish between the

suspension parts. There were still a lot of

unanswered questions but I decided to

start building anyway and see how the

details would be worked out later.

base to start working from. I lengthed the

back of the lower hull 5 mm with

plasticcard and reversed the angle of the

back plate from 15° inwards to 15°

outwards, the bottom sides were filled in

with 1 mm thick plastic card. Next step

was fitting the upper hull, I cut off the

entire hull only leaving the engine deck and

replaced everything else with thin plastic

sheet as the Dragon parts are too thick.

The first problem I found was with the roof

which seems not to be correct in the Ryton

drawings, in the pictures of the real vehicle

you can see that the roof was cut out

round and not straight as in the book. This

was to allow the upper hull to be bolted

against the bulkheads which were welded

to the lower hull. The in-progress pictures

will show what I mean.

The next problem was the front floor, the

front bulkhead and drivers position which

were detailed with the excellent Aber set

(35073 ). Now problem number two came

up - there is no room for the fuel tank in

the fighting compartment. This is normally

Schutzenpanzer book from Ryton I

saw a vehicle in it that was

completly new to me, it was a 250 NEU

with a 5 cm PAK mounted on top. It had an

instant appeal to me and has everything to

build into a great looking model. I always

look for a challenge to start a model and

this one had it all, be it in the paintjob or in

the building.

Having already build the 251/22 Pakwagen

using the CMD conversion I really wanted

to have a go at it’s smaller brother.

The only trouble was that in the Ryton

book there were no pictures, just some

drawings Using the drawings from the

book it should be possible to build the

lengthed chassis but I had absolutely no

idea on how the gun was mounted to the

vehicle.

After about six months of asking friends

and surfing the net I found out there was

only one surviving vehicle left in the

Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade in former

Yugoslavia. A bit too far away for a quick

Construction

To build the vehicle I used the Dragon

250/1 kit 6100 and the 5 cm PAK gun kit

6118. I started with reversing the angle of

the back armoured plate, this gave me the

fitted in the rear under the radio as it would

not be possible to operate the gun this

way.

So again after numerous E-mails and

telephone calls the consensus was that the

fueltank could have been mounted

beneath the floor as is the case with the

sdkfz 10 Demag with the same chassis.

This was good news to me, saved me the

work of building another one. A new floor

was made from plastic sheet and covered

with Aber’s floor plate set 35A87.

With the floor in place the upper hull was

temporarily taped to the lower hull with

Tamiya tape. I now started building the gun

mount. As I had no measurements it took

a lot of test fitting before a satisfying result

was achieved. I had to build the basic

shape of the gun to determine its correct

height in relation to the top of the hull. As

you can see there are a lot of if’s and but’s

but I think the overall appearance the

vehicle looks correct.

to stow the ammo? After checking my

reference the PAK 38 shells were almost

the same size and diameter as those in

the stummel which has the 7.5 cm KWK 37

gun. Again Aber came to the rescue, in the

stummel set ( 35074 ) you get the choice

of two ammo boxes I took the rectangular

box and it fitted perfectly under the gun

mount so my guesswork paid off.

There’s no other place in the back of the

vehicle to stow the shells because of the

gun’s recoil. An alternative could be to

stow the loose shells in their canisters

under the gun, but in my opinion it would

not have been an easy task to get a shell

out of it’s casing in such a cramped

vehicle. So an ammobox sounded more

logical . I also scratchbuilt a rack on the

right side that could hold six ready to use

rounds just as in the Stummel using the

Aber part as a template. A foldable

gunner’s seat was also made on the left

side from leftover brass parts with a seat

made from Magic Sculp.

All the smaller bits and pieces were now

Last but not the least problem was where

added to the interior. The gun itself was the

easiest part of the conversion, it was built

as per instructions and detailed up with

Aber set 35096. The hardest part here was

the gunshield which was a bit fiddly to

assemble but after some swearing and

two pots of coffee they fitted together

nicely. The undercarriage of the gun and

the rest of the PE parts were fed to my

hungry scrapbox.

After three weeks of frantic gluing and

soldering the interior was now ready for

painting, but more on that later. After the

upper and lower halves were mated

together with superglue the upper hull was

detailed with all the little rivets I’d lost with

sanding, also welding beads were made

from stretched sprue. On front of the

vehicle an armoured air intake cover was

made, on the pictures of the real vehicle

only a rectangular slit is seen but over this

the cover was fitted.

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