Landships II

MarkV · Lieutenant-Colonel

Pic of the day!

LincolnTanker · Commander in Chief

Great photo,� the model looks like a Russian�KV-1 Tank. I wonder If these card models were issued to German tank crews as a recognition exercise?

In WW2 American school children made thousands of wooden recognition planes using government issued drawings.

-- Edited by LincolnTanker on Tuesday 25th of January 2011 07:41:21 PM

elbavaro · Commander in Chief

Hmmm .... I have a picture in my collection showing German soldiers building tanks. Guess it ... one of it was a LK II. Scale was aroun 1:25 I guess.

Paul H · Major

Maybe they will use it for target practice when it�s built

T140 · Lieutenant-Colonel

Good pic but me being sceptical not sure its genuine. Look where the guy has the pipe in his mouth, looks photoshoped to me. Still a good pic even if it is.

elbavaro · Commander in Chief

And? For my the pipe/mouth is correct. Even so the scissor in his hand.

MarkV · Lieutenant-Colonel

Hello again.� I just found another photo here:

There is a bit of info about it here and I quote "German soldiers making paper models for vehicle recognition purposes during the build-up for Operation Zitadelle, better known as the Battle of Kursk".

Anyone know where one might find a copy of "official" military paper models like these?

MarkV

-- Edited by MarkV on Wednesday 26th of January 2011 11:34:08 PM

Paul Bonnett · Hero

Hi, try the following site, it may be of some use to you

http://militarypepmo.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html

Paul

T140 · Lieutenant-Colonel

elbavaro wrote:

And? For my the pipe/mouth is correct. Even so the scissor in his hand.

Yes, the second pic i think shows it is real. What threw me was the black mouth piece of the pipe, looked wrong on the first one but i agree looks real in the second photo.
Interesting pics for sure, I would have imagined they just used pictures�to�ID enemy tanks.

Paul Bonnett · Hero

I think putting together a card model would allow them to recognise potential weak points and 'shot traps' better than a photograph. I wonder who produced the models and where their references came from ?

CharlieC · Legend

The cardmodels were produced by a publisher in Berlin - I thought I had the publisher's name somewhere but can't find it at the moment. I've seen images of cardmodels of a StuG III and a Panzer III. If any survived they would be worth megabucks to collectors.

Regards,

Charlie

mickk · Captain

Its a real photo, have seen it before. The British army also used wooden models of German tanks and armoured cars . I bought a job lot at Bovington about 20 years ago. A Panther, MK III , IV , STUG and various others. They were quite large. I painted them as they were all sprayed grey and they looked lovely(even if I do say so myself)
After I moved away from home I went back to collect them as they were in the shed only to find that my Dad had thrown them all out when he was tidying up. furious

Just had to get that off my chest.

A few years before he took my SS panzer tunic to the charity shop. " Well you never wear it". confuse

Like to think theres some old pensioner walking around Dagenham in it.

Mick.��