So what the hell is this? The title roughly translates as "troop air protection motor vehicle", and I suppose in the age of fabric-covered biplanes it might have stood a rough chance to actually down an enemy aircraft. Later in the war it might have thrown enough tracer rounds into the air to convice a less motivated enemy to go fly somewhere else.
The Kfz. 4 was part of a series of light 4x4 offroad vehicles designed by the long-defunct company Stoewer of Danzig that saw service during the early years of WW2. ICM released a series of kits a little while ago that replaced an awful earlier family of kits from the same company, so take care to get the newer version when you buy one.
As always I intended this to be a quick OOTB build, but of course I couldn't help myself. Assembly itself was mostly trouble-free, but some finer details were simplified or just wrong. Especially the spare MG barrel containers on both sides of the twin MG34 mount were ugly blobs bereft of detail, so I resorted to scratchbuilding. The convoy light was grossly oversized, I used a spare Tamiya one instead.
The pioneer tools were also fairly simplified, a bit of spare photoetch helped with that. The jerrycans strapped to the side were inspired by a later war example seen here, but I don't aim to build that particular vehicle.
And finally, we have this somewhat British looking gentleman courtesy of Royal Model. I want to keep the base simple for once, so it'll probably just be a stretch of road somewhere in a forgotten corner of Europe.
Thanks for looking
Philipp
