A faithful breech of the 7.5 cm PaK 40 anti-tank gun in the large 1:16 scale, prepared for the kit from Das Werk.
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The 7.5 cm barrel of the PaK 40 ranked from 1942 among the most feared weapons infantry could put in the path of a tank. The piece weighed over a ton and a half, five men served it, and its horizontally sliding wedge breechblock opened by itself after the shot and threw the cartridge case clear, so a trained crew managed around twelve rounds a minute. The gun breech is the most interesting place on the whole weapon: you can see into the guide grooves, the firing mechanism and the seat for the cartridge case.
In the large 1:16 scale a model is usually built with the breech open, because that is the part you show off. The injection-molded part tends to be simplified, since the mold cannot reach into deep undercut shapes. A casting has no such limit and carries sharp edges and small facets that otherwise vanish under filler. Anyone building a large model usually concentrates the most work here, because it is the first place every visitor to a display case looks.
The set is prepared for the kit from Das Werk, which has to be obtained separately. Try the fit dry before you reach for glue: resin can be eased with a file, but material once taken off cannot be put back. The inside of the breech is sprayed in a dark steel shade and once it has dried the edges are run over with a graphite pencil, which creates the sheen of polished metal. The surrounding parts of the weapon call for matte field gray instead.
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