1:35 Sd.Kfz 222 early road wheels flat tires type 3 (4pcs + spare for Hobby Boss)

How to tell an early example

Telling the early and the late shape of this armored car apart is not at all involved, once a person knows where to look. During production the arrangement of the armor plates in the front end changed, alterations to the drive train accumulated and the running gear changed too. Anyone who picks a subject from a photograph and only then reaches for parts spares himself the disappointment of a finished model that matches two different periods at once.

This item covers the early shape and brings tires in the collapsed state, that is slumped over the edge of the rim, with rippled walls and the footprint spread out wide. The tread design carries the number three. It is the last of the three shapes listed for the vehicle, so there is something to choose from even when you are building several examples side by side and do not want them to look like siblings.

The figure in the name speaks of four wheels and one spare with them. The set is prepared for the Hobby Boss kit, which concerns above all the shape of the hub and the seating on the stub.

Collapsed rubber suits a machine put out of action, a vehicle abandoned by the road and a workshop scene alike. On a closed base it is then enough to sink the lower footprint into dust or soft ground and the transition between model and terrain disappears entirely.

One more piece of advice on choosing: if you are building a vehicle into a group with other machines, it pays to alternate the patterns. A column in which every car has a different tread shape looks alive, because that is exactly how real equipment made up from various sources looked.