Hi friends, it’s Friday so let us catch up.
I finished the Sturmpanzerwagen A7V take a look.
Pretty easy but I got a more intriguing build ready to start. I’m moving away from various vehicles and ships to something different. While it is not the Lego build I will eventually get when I have enough extra money this a smaller version which should be a challenge.
This will probably take a little longer to build then my other ones which works out since I have preorders in for two vehicles that probably won’t show up until March. It is basically the same Anti-Tank vehicle with a slight variation. I’ve ordered a Ferdinand and an Elephant. When they are done you’ll find out why they are different. Now on to a previous build.
Previous Build
60cm Karl-Great 040 “Ziu”
“Karl-Gerät” (040/041) (German literally “Karl-device”), also known as Mörser Karl, was a World War II German self-propelled siege mortar (Mörser) designed and built by Rheinmetall. Its heaviest munition was a 60 cm (24 in) diameter, 2,170 kg (4,780 lb) shell, and the range for its lightest shell of 1,250 kg (2,760 lb) was just over 10 km (6.2 mi). Each gun had to be accompanied by a crane, a two-piece heavy transport set of railcars, and several modified tanks to carry shells.
Seven guns were built, six of which saw combat between 1941 and 1945. It was used in attacking the Soviet fortresses of Brest-Litovsk and Sevastopol, bombarded Polish resistance fighters in Warsaw, participated in the Battle of the Bulge, and was used to try to destroy the Ludendorff Bridge during the Battle of Remagen. One Karl-Gerät has survived and the remainder were scrapped after the war.
I’m surprised I’ve never seen a Sturmpanzerwagen in a Hollywood movie. They’re pretty awesome-looking.
The Colisseum you show, with the neighborhood, is more attractive than the Lego version will be if it is only the Coliesseum and nothing else.
That’s where you must have found the photo of the cat curled up in one!
This one is about a third the size of the Lego one, maybe a fourth. It also only half the theater so you get a view inside. Just finished 1/5 of bags just now. Not doing house hunting this weekend so I may just plow forward.
That’s John Wayne man.