March 4, 2015 by dignity
Justin and John take a look at a plastic Panzer IV kit for Bolt Action which allows you to make one of three versions of this famous tank.
This kit from Warlord Games allows you to build either the short-barrelled Ausf. F1, long-barrelled Ausf. F2/G which has a distinctive muzzle brake or the Ausf. H that includes protective schürzen side skirts.
Which version will you build?
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John wondered what difference the L43 versus the L48 gun made on the Panzer IV – it gave the same round 50m/s higher muzzle velocity, maening anything up to 7% better armour penetration at any given range – more details on this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.5_cm_KwK_40 I built the Rubicon kit recently, and frankly I think it is a better model – slightly more expensive but with more accurate suspension, the long cannons are the correct length and best of all, the schurzen do not have to be glued on, so you can have all sorts of combinations. The Warlord kit… Read more »
@dignity – that “goof” on the schurtzen actually works to your advantage. Like @johnlyons says, these things are dinged up, hit, bent, smashed, shot up, burned up, missing segments, all the time. You see wartime photos of these things, they often look like something that just rolled off the set of a Mad Movie. Oh, and yes, at 10:05 . . . let’s only discuss the history of the “H” variant. 🙂 If you make John sit there and discuss the whole history of all PzKpfw IVs . . . go get him some lunch and some coffee. He’s gonna… Read more »
the only other upgrade would be the 88 which would require a new turret? I think.
Yes, the turret ring was at the limit with the last gun upgrade. It would have had to have been upgraded then you get the problem of the chasis being able to handle the weight and impact of the gunfire. In the Navy they tried to fit an 8″ gun on the foredeck of one of our sister ships(DDG), replacing the excellent 5″ 54. No matter how many times they tried, and how much they upgraded the structure of the foredeck, it cracked every time they test fired.
pretty! now that’s not a term I would use to describe a tank, sexy yes 😉 pretty eh no.
@oriskany but think of how boring our tabletops would be with out the big cats – but you have to love the PzKpfw IV, one of the most iconic tanks ever build, maybe even the one you would point at if you only could choose 1 – T34 and the big cats being the others
And the short barrelled early war version where the PzKpfw IV C, the one PzKpfw IV F1 is a later version 😉
What about the big bumble bees?
Love them but I would not call them iconic
I love Flamingos.
You should take a look at the rubicon models 1/56th scale version too, its a very nice kit and the schurzen are much easier to attach. In fact you can take them on and off to suit your game,
a nice tank that swapped jobs with the Pz III.
Ive not a clue when it comes to any of this stuff. But Id better learn as Im away to the Boot Camp. And yeah, I went with Waffeen SS. Looking forward to it dont get me wrong but Im also saying to myself “what have I gotten myself into this time?”
I know now how Warren felt when he started historical!
Crew hatches are in the same position in all wariants of Pz IV.
Pz IV from Ausf.A to Ausf.E has a three part, upper front, 30mm plate armor + bonus plate.
Pz IV from Ausf.F to Ausf.G, one plate, 50mm + bonus plate.
Pz IV from H to J, one plate, 80mm + bonus plate.
Or something like that.
Wydawnictwo “Militaria” nr. 4, 147, 250.
Osprey – New Vanguard 28 – Panzer-IV 1936-45
And other. Have Fun. ]:->