Cast front wheels for the Sd.Kfz. 251 carrier, this time with a less usual Continental off-road tread and an early disk. For Border Models kits in 1:35.
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German half-tracks did not run on one single type of tire. There were several suppliers, each stamped its own tread design, and over the course of the war the range changed still further according to what could just then be made from substitute synthetic rubber. Alongside the most widespread off-road pattern, therefore, a variant with a different arrangement of the transverse blocks also appears in photographs, one that was noticeably rarer.
It is this less frequent design that the castings capture. The rim stays in the early rendering, so the set suits vehicles from the earlier production series. The modeler gets a wheel with sharp edges to the grooves and with no trace of a parting line, which is the usual weakness of injected parts. The mounting is prepared for the kits of the Border Models company.
The supply of rubber was among the permanently weak places in Germany. Natural rubber was lacking from the beginning of the war, a synthetic material from domestic production became the substitute, and its properties forced manufacturers to adjust the design and the composition of the compound. From there springs the variety of treads that we see in period photographs today.
At an exhibition and on the shelf it is useful when two otherwise identical vehicles differ in a detail that has support in a period photograph. The tires are just the simplest way to tell two Hanomags apart without having to intervene in the body.
The casting is released by a cut, the surface is leveled and the surface freed of grease. Super glue holds the joint; with larger seating areas epoxy does so more reliably. The rest of the vehicle the builder completes from the base kit.
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