K-Wagen or "Grosskampfwagen"

Already painted and coated with gloss varnish

Against JaPz IV

Again JaPzIV

Against a little Stuart-Tank...

Building up the inner pat of the hull

Engine deck, inner side

Second inner side in place

Checking fit of deck

Fitting the outer sides

and furst turnable "cannon-turret" in place

building up pylons

pylon/casematte under construction

size proofing is always imminent

it´s a long way to go, but we can see where too...

Yippie, we have a closed paylon/casematte

Closing bow and adding bow-machinegun-place

Look from above

Size against a 1/35-figure...i think this one was part of the Pz-I-kit of Italerie

Nearly finished

running gear

View from right front

details on engine deck

Paylon/casematte left

Tracklinks under construction

...and added to right track

And finally it has it´s own "feet"...no wonder why they called it "Landcruiser"!!

Comments

3 19 January 2019, 07:52

Rui S
Great scratch built work in ths Massive tank

19 January 2019, 10:38

Michael Valentan
Just see i have to make some new pics of the finished tank. Now it rested for nearly 2 years in a dark place in cellar...time to show him light again, maybe i take it to Go-Modelling 2019 in Vienna.
Thx for watching and the nice words!!

19 January 2019, 14:29

Alex
Excellent, good job. Thank you for posting the pictures. The tracks look like they were a blast to built 🙂 I probably would've lost my mojo after 5 or so...

1 February 2019, 18:58

Rui S
@ Alex, it happened too me in my last T26 build🙁

2 February 2019, 12:25

gorby
WOW! How did I miss this one? Stunning work Michael.
I've considered doing this one myself – so thanks for building it, so that I don't have to.😉

3 May 2020, 14:52

Anthony Flanagan
Great build and camp job. Wow!

3 May 2020, 15:21

Michael Valentan
I did a St. Chamond 2 years before it was released as a kit...and i had to build these tracklinks...Each Tracklink consisted of 24 small Parts glued together to form the link...that was nerveripping...but i managed to finish 8 pieces a day, so after nearly 2 weeks i had enough tracklinks...and after finishing and showing my St.Chamond at an exhibition they produced one...Thank you Takom!!!

4 May 2020, 17:49

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On request i post some pictures of my some-years-ago-built K-Wagen aka "Grosskampfwagen".
As i said, its really big. I will ad a picture with a known built kit for size-measuring...

To the original: Germany at the end of WW1 was trying to break the stalemate on the western front, like they did many times before...but this time they tried out somethinbg completely new: Tanks that are REAL landships, landcruisers really with guns sticking out every edge and corner...so they startet do create the "Grosskampfwagen" or short "K-Wagen".
It should be powered with 2 U-boat-engines (2 x V6 Daimler,
650 hp), armed with 4 77-mm-guns and a lot of Machineguns.
It should hold a crew of 27 men (a commander, two drivers, a signaler, an artillery officer, 12 artillery men, eight machine gunners and two mechanics).
It should first have 165 tons, later sized down to 120 tons by shortening the hull. It should be divided up into 6 modules to be transportable. Sizes were 13 metres long, 6 metres wide, 3 metres high
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Grosskampfwagen (K-Wagen)

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