Ammunition wagons

[Wilhelm Kruger]

Best I can tell, this is the place for this question: Can anybody tell me about some of the small horse-drawn two-wheeled ammunition carts/wagons used by the Wehrmacht? Specifically, plans/blueprints/good pictures, so that I might build something similar? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Kruger

[Wilhelm Kruger]

Anybody....

[Richard Schoutissen]

Anybody....

Bespannte Fahrzeuge der deutschen Wehrmacht

[Tom Houlihan]

Danke, Richard! I couldn't read all of it, but I got enough out of that page!

I'd love to see someone make a nice 1/35 kit of that MG-Wagen.

[Richard Schoutissen]

Danke, Richard! I couldn't read all of it, but I got enough out of that page!

I'd love to see someone make a nice 1/35 kit of that MG-Wagen.

Hello Tom,

Maybe this can help ?
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[Wilhelm Kruger]

Thanks guys!
Great site, Richard, very helpful. Sat down at the drafting table last night to try and sketch out some formal plans.
Will try to post some pics when I get it built.

Regards,

Kruger

[Tom Houlihan]

Kruger, are you building 1/35, or 1/1??

[Wilhelm Kruger]

1/1, full size for a team of horses. Yes, I know, sounds crazy, but a bored blacksmith is never idle very long! Besides, a cart about the size of one of the two wheeled rigs would be handy on the farm, especially in the wet seasons when the roads are impassable for motor vehicles.

Regards

Kruger

[Tom Houlihan]

I build models and write glossaries in foreign languages.

This guy gets bored, he recreates wagons.

And people tell me I need a life...

[Commissar D, the Evil]

I almost forgot that there are real blacksmiths out there. Few folks realize that this is a trade that is actually an art. What seems to be strictly functional requires an awful lot of skill, if you've ever tried to work with metal before.

Bestens,
~D, the EviL (Oh yes, and modeling and writing books on foreign languages are also artforms. My only art is the ability to never finish anything...... )

[Tom Houlihan]

~D, the EviL (Oh yes, and modeling and writing books on foreign languages are also artforms. My only art is the ability to never finish anything...... )

I'm just not gonna go there...

[Wilhelm Kruger]

Oh, come now! Tom, that sounds like a challenge to me! And yes comrade Comissar, blacksmithing is an art, which both I and my step-father practice. He is much better than I, and does some beautiful ornamental iron work.
Regards,
Kruger

[ReinhardH]

This low quality photo probably won't help you much, but here's a scan of one of dad's photos from the Ukraine in the summer of '43, where he served with GJR138. He was the leader of an 8cm mortar crew and company field armorer, so I don't know if the cart in the pic is for the mortar and ammo, armorer's chest, or maybe both..

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[Wilhelm Kruger]

Reinhard, thanks for the foto. It would appear that the cart on the left might actually be a peasant wagon, but this is just judging by the front wheel and what little I can see of the body. But the pic is great!
Regards,
Kruger

[ReinhardH]

lol, you may well be right about that..very possible the cart was already there when they arrived. Other than it was in the Ukraine in '43, he never gave me a further explanation of the pic...