re: Vader’s Model Desk: Pz.Kpfw I Ausf. B Light Tank

What was the armament? 20mm? 37mm?

Very nice job, as usual. The paint job is next level. Are those a couple of .50 cal shells by the window?

I listened to some programs about D-Day from each side’s perspective over the last couple of days and a German talked about unsuccessfully trying to deploy their Goliaths. I had never heard of a Goliath and I found this description below. Supposedly, the Germans got the idea from some prototype they captured while overrunning France. The story I listened to said they couldn’t get them started so they were a non-factor on D-Day.

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It was a diminutive tracked vehicle about 1.5m long that could carry up to 60kg of light explosives and was remotely controlled via 3 cables that spooled out of its rear. Some 7,564 were produced in all, split between 12V battery and gas engine-powered variants. They were largely deployed by assault pioneer (Sturmpionier) units, and were hoped to give the advantage of surprise. They were used on all fronts including German counters to the allied invasions in Normandy.

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Looks like Tamiya has a neat little kit with a Goliath.

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Very nice job, as usual. The paint job is next level. Are those a couple of .50 cal shells by the window?

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Good eye. And yes, tracer in fact.

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I listened to some programs about D-Day from each side’s perspective over the last couple of days and a German talked about unsuccessfully trying to deploy their Goliaths. I had never heard of a Goliath and I found this description below. Supposedly, the Germans got the idea from some prototype they captured while overrunning France. The story I listened to said they couldn’t get them started so they were a non-factor on D-Day.

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Yeah, jsit one of many hare-brained ideas the Germans had that wasted precious resources, time, and effort.

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They were eventually upgunned, right?

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Well, sorta. They could not be up-gunned as a tank due to the size of the turret. So, what the Germans did was covert some to tank destroyers. They took the Pz.Kpfw I Ausf. B, removed the turret, and mounted a 4.7 Cm anti-tank gun in an open-top casemate, and thus the Panzerjäger I was born…

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WIP pics of the Jagdtiger

Yes Tamiya 1/35th scale

amazing... good work sir