MikeT Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 Been doing some surfing and found this by accident. Check out the pic at this link http://hsgalleries.com/jagdwagenaj_1.htm MikeT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 NO HANS! DON'T TURN ON THE HEADLIGHTS! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 LOL! I like it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirocco Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 I'm not sure how useful that zimmerit coating would have been. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone_Vulture Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 I assume both the front hull and superstructure have a curved armor value? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Murray Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 I could really use that in my neighborhood! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Lucke Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 How do you say "good ol' boy" in German? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 I bet it has rotating number plates too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macphail Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 thats a nice model, but i think the zimmerit is only useful as camoflage. as we all know, the real purpose of zimmerit is to prevent magnetic charges from sticking, so it has to be a certain thinkness. it looks too thin on the car. i forget what those charges were called, but i think it would be wasted on a cheap car like a beetle. did they even make those in the war? i thought they would look more like kubelwagens. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willbell Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 I hate to be a nit-picker, but this particular '65 VW body wasn't in production until late in the war, I think early '45. Most of them were equiped with salvaged .50 cals, so the dual MGs are not quite historically accurate. Also, although there isn't a clear view of the rear, the extra space needed for the ammo containers neccessitated the use of an external fuel tank in the rear. This made them extremely vunerable to carefully aimed rounds from late model Shermans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT Posted January 4, 2005 Author Share Posted January 4, 2005 There is always a grog around. MikeT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Seems to me that the PFs would interfere with steering. And I wouldn't want to be in the car (or near it for that matter) if they were fired. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Originally posted by Michael Emrys: Seems to me that the PFs would interfere with steering. And I wouldn't want to be in the car (or near it for that matter) if they were fired. Michael Or plan on using the tires immediately thereafter...I don't see the "feuerstrohl" being directed outside the fenders... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leopard_2 Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 > How do you say "good ol' boy" in German? Literally, "guter alter Junge", but I'm not sure that's what you intended to say. As the term doesn't seem to be properly defined in your language, "Bodenständig" (down to earth) is the closest I could come up with. Give me a better definition of "good ol' boy", and I give you a better translation. > I don't see the "feuerstrohl" being directed > outside the fenders... Feuerstrahl. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivodsi Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 And I wouldn't want to be in the car (or near it for that matter) if they were fired. And er... shouldn't it automatically suppress all those inside if they were fired? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Suppress them? I reckon it'll fry the crap out of them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone_Vulture Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Oh, come on.... Obviously the combustion gases from the panzerfausts would be rigged to connect with the exhaust pipes of the car. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macphail Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 before all you grogs have a heart attack over this guys art work, let me say something. i used to make alot of models when i younger, and i hope to get back into it when im older, and one of my favourite types of projects were what ifs...in this case, what if jerry invaded america, and the war was still going on in the early sixties. obviously these two ardent national socialists are doing their part to keep some low priority area under proper control. nice model, excellent finishing techniques. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Originally posted by flamingknives: NO HANS! DON'T TURN ON THE HEADLIGHTS! You called? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willbell Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Leopard, Good 'ole boy in german. Find a region in Germany where the inhabitants are quite different than other Germans, to the point that they might actually prefer not to be part of Germany (Bavaria?). And they have their own accent an distinctive customs. Then locate a member of that community that is the embodyment of the people that live there. What term would his friends and countrymen use to refer to him so that an outsider would know where he comes from? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Just for the record. My copy of Bart Vanderveen's "Fighting Vehicles Directory of WWII" does show a Volkwagen Beetle type car. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Originally posted by Leopard_2: > How do you say "good ol' boy" in German? Literally, "guter alter Junge", but I'm not sure that's what you intended to say. As the term doesn't seem to be properly defined in your language, "Bodenständig" (down to earth) is the closest I could come up with. Give me a better definition of "good ol' boy", and I give you a better translation. > I don't see the "feuerstrohl" being directed > outside the fenders... Feuerstrahl. I was posting in a different room than my Panzerfaust collection....so sue me! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Lucke Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Originally posted by Leopard_2: > How do you say "good ol' boy" in German? Literally, "guter alter Junge", but I'm not sure that's what you intended to say. As the term doesn't seem to be properly defined in your language, "Bodenständig" (down to earth) is the closest I could come up with. Give me a better definition of "good ol' boy", and I give you a better translation. I think wbs would be much better qualified than I to render a definition of this American colloquialism --- but, if you've ever seen an American TV show from the '80's called The Dukes of Hazard, you might get the gist of it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Lucke Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Originally posted by Macphail: did they even make those in the war? i thought they would look more like kubelwagens. The VW beetle kommandeurwagen. 4-wheel drive, sunroof as standard equipment. About 500 made. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwdjohn Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Personally, in every game where i have soft skinned-vehicles, my first move for them is usually off map. they seem to die WAY too easy. I understand that theoretically small arms from 500m CAN take out a truck in trees, i just dunno if that would happen EVERY TIME. Off topic, does moving crap units (trucks, jeeps, crews, empty mortars/FOs) count against me at the end of the game? Would i be safer moving them to a corner but keeping them on-map? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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