The PZ IV Ausf J was in service by then and was the last variant of the Pz IV in production. That kit is the first version, notice the 4 top rollers. By the time of the Ardenne a modified version was in production, one difference being it had only 3 top rollers, but the earlier version would have still been in use. Depends if you want to model a specific vehicle or are happy to go for somthing generic.
155 arty, thats a big mother of a gun.
Bish, this is a Tamiya 1/35 scale model of the M109 155mm Shelf-propelled Howitzer that my Battalion had when I was in the Army. It was Vietnam era armor and would do almost everything a tank could do.
Tamiya 1/35 scale model of Panzer IV Ausf J
Not sure if my pictures will be posted, or how do insert them.
No, can’t see your pics. Are you useing a seperate hosting site, you can’t link pics directly from your computer.
British army still had the 109 when i joined up but had been replaced by the time my battalion went into the armoured role. I have seen the AS 90 in action, very similar layout to the 109.
That Tamiya kit should be a nice build. I have that one in my stash and have built a couple of other based on that.
Bish, I’ve been reading in The Panzer IV: Hitler’s Rock (Images of War) by Anthony Tucker-Jones. But first let me correct something I said about the M109 155mm Howitzer, it’s not a substitute for a tank, it’s armor was never intended to take the punishment of a battle tank.
The Tamiya kit I mentioned (the J version) of Panzer IV has 4 rollers instead of 3, so something is not quite right with the Tamiya model if I understand what you said earlier.
Regarding my pictures; I did try to paste them direct from my computer as you thought, so how do I get the right software or application to insert pictures in this forum?
No, the Tamiya kit is fine for a slightly earlier Ausf J. By this stage of the war the Germans were making changes to vehicles almost daily. These changes were often minor and did not warrant a change in designation. As well as top rollers, the exhausts were changed and sheet metal side skirts were replaced by mesh.
Youcan see the different exhausts and mesh screens here.
For the pics, you need a seperate hopsting site. I use Flickr, but there plenty out there. there are a few discussions on here as earlier this year one of the bigger ones had some major issues.
Bish, is this the way you attach pictures?
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If you can see this picture it’s me onboard the USS John King DDG-3 in 1965. I was in the US Navy for 6-years and finished my enlistment as Petty Office Second Class, working with Automated Combustion Control systems (Boiler Tender and Repair). Then I went to college to become an electronics technician with a particular interest in radio and telemetry, joined the Army as a radio sergeant finished my enlistment in 1975.
This was way before I went to college to become and architect and construction manager.
Handsome kid. Thank you for your service. Hey, I’m an architect too, semi-retired working from home. I was 1A in 1974 but no one was getting drafted then and I planned to go to college. My class was full of guys who were Vietnam vets, and they were a hard working and studying bunch. Taught me a lot of self-discipline as friends.
I opened your link and downloaded the .png to my desktop. Then I uploaded it to Fotki, which is the photo sharing site I use. From there I copied the URL and pasted it here using the little image button in the toolbar above the repies window.
Bill
Thank you Bill for the compliment and the instructions for attaching photos. I hope you realize this picture is not what I look like today. My wife and I are retired in our 70’s but still pretty healthy. Architecture and construction have been my daily work for many years. I built senior living and medical centers from 25,000 to 280,000 square feet in Oregon, Washington and Arizona. I also designed 35 residential custom homes in Oregon and Washington. I specialized in BIM Architecture software.
This is what my wife and I look like today… A little worn around the edges after working nearly 55 years.
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Still not showing up. You don’t look a day older. Is she your business partner? Mine is.
I’ve worked since 1979. Residential for a couple of years but it was not my interest. Highrise construction at a series of firms, starting at SOM for 10 years.
Short stint in a large construction firm as a PM, then we’ve been creating architectural graphics since 1995.
I don’t look like that either.
Cheers,
Bill
My wife was a residential general contractor… I designed custom homes and she built them. But those days are history, now we spend time at the coast, or with our family and friends and once in a while I get to built a model or two.
Cheers!
