Building up my book shelf.
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:51 am
This friday some books dropped in from Amazon.
And i was amazed by the sheer weight of the books: The Combat History Of Schwere Panzer Abteilung 503it weight in on my scale at 1,5kgs!!!!!. It has keept me in a dreamstate for the whole weekend. I have read wolfgang Schneiders tiger 1 and 2 books several times and they are awesome but this is like a leap back in time. As the former commanders and platoon leaders read from their own personal war notes. I was stunned several times from the reading about the KT and its performance that they held a headhodge position for like 12 h under heavy fire and managed to fix tracks and did some maintence (while fired upon)and was able to pull back by own machine. If you intend to build a 503 Tiger or KT i strongly recomend this book. Very large clear photos and interesting battle plans in it, plus interesting and breathtaking reading.
And for reference build i had to get Germanys Tiger tanks by Thomas L jentz and Hilary L Doyle.
Wich has loads of drawings and blueprints of the tanks itself, a must have aswell.
Im probably goin nuts, but its half the pleasure reading and finding out stuff about both the tank and the Abt you are going to build.
And its keeps the stress of my back aswell.
I know i lack the eye for some details as im a Noob in 1/6 as my gaming son would say, but i love this forum and are looking into the skill of the ppl in it. And i find you guys amazing both in craftmanship as in the technical parts.
I probably log in 5 or more times a day to watch if there is some new posts
so you can easely say im hooked on big models from now.
Keep it up guys
Freddie
And i was amazed by the sheer weight of the books: The Combat History Of Schwere Panzer Abteilung 503it weight in on my scale at 1,5kgs!!!!!. It has keept me in a dreamstate for the whole weekend. I have read wolfgang Schneiders tiger 1 and 2 books several times and they are awesome but this is like a leap back in time. As the former commanders and platoon leaders read from their own personal war notes. I was stunned several times from the reading about the KT and its performance that they held a headhodge position for like 12 h under heavy fire and managed to fix tracks and did some maintence (while fired upon)and was able to pull back by own machine. If you intend to build a 503 Tiger or KT i strongly recomend this book. Very large clear photos and interesting battle plans in it, plus interesting and breathtaking reading.
And for reference build i had to get Germanys Tiger tanks by Thomas L jentz and Hilary L Doyle.
Wich has loads of drawings and blueprints of the tanks itself, a must have aswell.
Im probably goin nuts, but its half the pleasure reading and finding out stuff about both the tank and the Abt you are going to build.
And its keeps the stress of my back aswell.
I know i lack the eye for some details as im a Noob in 1/6 as my gaming son would say, but i love this forum and are looking into the skill of the ppl in it. And i find you guys amazing both in craftmanship as in the technical parts.
I probably log in 5 or more times a day to watch if there is some new posts
so you can easely say im hooked on big models from now.Keep it up guys
Freddie
