German 8 Wheeled 233 Build

[Jakko]

I'm surprised you didn't mention those cookie tins the brits were using early on

Mostly because I was limiting myself to jerrycans The British soon began making a straight-up copy of the German one, differing only in the lettering, exactly because of the problems with their own cans.

Which is an important thing to keep in mind for modellers: if you want to stick a German jerrycan on your model, make sure it's a German one. The old Italeri jerrycan set is a good example: most people thought (or think) it has six American cans and twelve German ones, but actually, it's six each of American, German and British.

Here's a British can:



It differs from the German ones mainly in that it has W↑D embossed in it (for "War Department") instead of Kraftstoff 20l or Wasser 20l, and you can see this in 1:35 scale. There's no problem if you glue it to a model with the blank side up, of course, but when the embossed side is showing, you may have put an unlikely can onto a model.

 

[OldManModeler]

So, I got the smoke dischargers installed and some jerry cans with PE straps. Onward Ho!



The PE on this kit is incredible. i have about 20 or more PE parts and 50 more plastic parts to install before the primer.

I can't explain the glue all over the left front drivers hatch. I saw it in the pic and was mystified. It was a 'What is that" moment for me. Weathering will hide it, I hope.

I think my errors as a hack builder can be covered by weathering and 'battle damage'. We all will see.

Be well. Model on.

Should I quit this build now?

Eric

 

[kevin]

Should I quit this build now?

Only you can answer that..........but I think you got this,
Be well. Model on.

 

[BarleyBop]

I think you got this

... I second that motion!

 

[OldManModeler]

Thank you, guys.

I became a 'Glue Member' because I appreciate this forum and all you folks within this hobby. Having built plastic models since childhood, I still learn something new every week just coming here and reading everyone's posts. "Pay it forward", as they say.

PE, and jerry cans... 4 of these to do....

I think of the soldiers in North Africa back then. The Brits and Germans, Italians and later the Americans boys. Kiwi's and Brits and maybe Aussies in the LRDG and SAS. Thousands of miles from home.
Back then.... Love was (is) eternal. Their wives and girlfriends and family were so vey far away. Yet, they endured. And I sit here in 2025 and bend bits of photo etch parts to honor them in a tiny model....



Onward.

I listen to this kind of music while bending PE.... So I don't give up. Because in the end, it doesn't matter. I do it for love of the history and for those boys who did it. Those young men who lived it.



Only this matters: John 3:16.

Be well. Model on.

Eric

 

[Jakko]

The Brits and Germans, Italians and later the Americans boys. Kiwi's and Brits and maybe Aussies in the LRDG and SAS

You're forgetting the members of the largest all-volunteer army ever raised: Indians. Also the Free French.

 

[OldManModeler]

You're forgetting the members of the largest all-volunteer army ever raised: Indians. Also the Free French.

Yes Sir. My apologies to the Indians and the free French. And to quasi mercenaries by trade or conscription.