Desert Deception

[PANZERMAN]

Hey fellow addicts, during the African campaign both sides used trickery and deception
to fool their enemy. These dummy tanks were made to fool recon aircraft into reporting
more armor units than Rommel had.
Kubelwagon is Hasagawa 1/72 kit. Fake tank is scratchbuilt out of styrene and tape. Figure
is from Airfix and is converted(new arms and head w/ pith helmut). Tent made out of foil.
The rest of equip is from spares.





Any comments are suggestions are welcomed. Thanks for viewing.

 

[Eastrock]

Bill, your SBS looks grreaaat!!!

nice touch on the weathering

 

[Jelly]

Hummm... innovative!v

Is it based on a picture?? or is it a creative design, Panzerman??

Anyway, I think that it is a very cool & original idea, mate...

;D ;D And I´m thinking in building a 1:1 scale to fit over my lil´ Peugeot 205 and take a drive around !!! ;D

Cheers, Panzerman
RG

 

[spud]

there is truth in his idea jelly. and its pretty good and not somthing you will see every day

 

[Jelly]

there is truth in his idea jelly. and its pretty good and not somthing you will see every day

Hey Spud,
Definitely in my case it is the first time I´ve seen one of those dummies in a model kit!

I think I had seen before some pics of this kind of deception devices, but they were British, US, or Japanese...

 

[spud]

i know the brits done it in N.Afrika but duno about the germansm, But still whos to say it never happneded

 

[Jelly]

Found it !!!

Just terrific, Panzerman !!!



Cheers! Awesome work!

 

[Eastrock]

you got exactly the same pic Jelly ;D

 

[geegad]

nice build loving your scratch built tanky thing looking forward to seein whats nxt from you

john

 

[Chris S]

Great little build Panzerman ,and a nice original idea ,well finished

Chris.

 

[Rentar1]

Fantastic subject! You really pulled it off!

 

[PANZERMAN]

Thanks everyone, I really enjoyed the build on this one. Not something you see
everyday has a certain appeal.
@Eastrock, what does SBS stand for???
@Jelly, thanks for posting the photo, I'm sure it's the one I used for reference.
Much appreciated my fellow addicts...................Bill.

 

[Eastrock]

Hi Bill it means Scratch Building Skills... I admire your patience!!!