1/72 Sd.Kfz. 7/3 Artillery Tractor Feuerleitpanzer by Cem Esen

 

Hello friends,

I apologize for not posting a new page for a while. Let's continue where we left off.

Let's start with a beautiful model by Cem Esen. Cem hasn't sent any photos since the construction stages. I took the photos of the completed model last year in Bursa, on a table. I apologize for the poor quality photos.

The Revell Sdk.fz.7 kit was used to build the Sd.Kfz. 7/3 Artillery Tractor Feuerleitpanzer. There's a lot of scratch-build work involved. Congratulations Cem, it's a master model.

Erhan...

Heller / Airfix 1/72 GMC CCKW 353 & BOFORS 40 mm Gun (by Cem Esen)

 

Hello 

Today I'm sharing Cem's work. He mounted a Bofors Gun on a GMC truck. I think it's very cool...

The GMC truck is an Airfix mold, but Heller boxed it. Airfix usually prefers 1/76 scale, but this kit is a true 1/72, and I think it has a very nice mold. British Bofors 40mm Mk1/2 AA-Gun from Zvezda mini-kit (kit number 6170) 

Cem hasn't taken studio photos of this model yet. The first photos are from the bench. I also took the finished model photos. I think it was about a year ago, and I used the table as a base, using my mobile phone camera. I'm mad at Cem for not taking photos...

Enjoy,

Erhan... 

PST 1/72 ZIS-12 (conversion from ZIS-5) Searchlight Carrier (by Cem Esen)

 

Hello,

Today I'm sharing an interesting model from our team member Cem Esen.

A Searchlight Carrier on a ZIS-12 truck. He used the PST ZIS-5 kit for this model.

Very nice work, a master model. It also has lights, so it can operate at night. Congratulations, my friend.

Erhan...

Let's give you some encyclopedic information about the vehicle.

In 1934, the engineers of the Moscow ZiS plant decided to lengthen the chassis of the well-known ZiS-5 truck to enable the installation of a fire fighter body.
The resulting vehicles, subsequently known as the ZiS-11, soon emerged to the ZiS-12 with a significantly larger cargo body compared to the ZiS-5.
The Army instantly recognized its capacities and required a lower cargo body to enable the installation of the 1500mm Z-15-4A searchlight as well as the ZT-3 and ZT-4 sound locators which were both supposed to maintain their own wheel carriage in order to be unloaded and moved separately.
In fact, quite a number of the 4,800 ZiS-12 totally produced were equipped in this manner, and towards war's end a ZiS-12 variant carrying the new 25mm AA twin gun 94-K appeard as well.
The ZiS-12 searlight carrier was of course primarily used in its original AA role but for one day fulfilled a somehow strange purpose.
On April 16, 1945, long before dawn, no less than 142 searchlights of Marshal Shukov's 1st Belorussian Front illuminated the Oder banks in order to blind the opponents against the forthcoming attack, the well-known and bloody »Berlin Operation«.
The spectacle was later described as most impressive although the resulting effect was largely decreased by the dense spring fog so typical for the oder lowlands.