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The Panzerkampfwagen IV was produced in large numbers and it formed the backbone of the German armoured forces for the duration of WWII. Despite its weak armour and technical problems the panzer IV was the most reliable German armoured vehicle, and from 1942 on in particular, it was the equal of almost all enemy tanks thanks to its improved armament. The Panzer IV Achilles heal became apparent in the later half of the war, the troops gave the tank the nickname of “Rotbart der Hauchdunne” (Red beard the thin-skinned) on account of its weak armour. This had not however gone un-noticed by the Krupp works which had drawn up plans in 1942 for a revised hull for the Panzer IV. Action was taken on the 31 December 1942, when Wa Pruef 6 informed Krupp that the General staff had decided to modernise the Panzer IV hull with a sloped glacis as proposed by Krupp in drawing number W1462. The weight would increase by 880kg with the 50mm sloped glacis, 80mm hull front, and 20mm forward belly plate. At the same time wider tracks and three instead of two tandem road wheels were to be mounted. Sadly the tank was never built as the future of the Pz.Kpfw. IV series was decided in a meeting of the panzerkommision on 17 February 1943. The Adolf-Hitler Program called for the Pz.Kpfw. IV production rate to more than double by October 1943, with an additional 1200 completed by the Spring of 1944. In order to meet these production goals, the assembly and steel firms insisted that the Pz.Kpfw. IV design need to remain unchanged. Sadly the panzerkommision were forced to recommended the Pz.Kpfw. IV with sloped armour be dropped. So what if?.... After the reversal of the allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 and with the Red army blasting its way toward the homelands of the Reich from the East the panzerkommision needed to up date the army’s workhorse without stopping full scale production of the tank. Development of a new chassis of similar class was totally out of the question, it was therefore decided in a meeting of the panzerkommision on 3 July 1944 that Krupp was to build a trial vehicle based on their 1942 drawing number W1462. The fist trial vehicle with the new sloped armour hull was presented to Hitler on 20 September 1944. The Panzer IV production line at Vogtländische Maschinenfabrik AG in Plauen (vomag) was halted in November 1944 to allow for re-tooling to the new tank. The other production line produced the PzIV70/L tank hunter and its production increased as every chassis built at Vomag was used on this line until re-tooling was completed in January 1944. The first production Panzer IV Ausf. K was completed at Vomag on 4 February 1945. The Nibelungwerk began re-tooling in February, followed by Braunschwieg in March and finally Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG in May 1945. The model The tank I have built is my impression of what the Panzer IV Ausf. K may have looked like after the Krupp drawings were brought up to 1944/45 standards. The model has been built from the Revell Pz IVJ kit along with parts from the Revell Kingtiger and Millicast night fighting equipment. It has been detailed using Part etched brass and finally an Aber gun barrel. The Revell chassis has been slightly converted so it features only three return rollers each side instead of four and at the front towing attachments are also altered. The rear engine deck has been detailed but remains identical to the standard Ausf. J kit. The fighting compartment has been totally replaced, the old BW design that dates back to the mid 30ties has been replaced with a clean sloped design that I copied directly from the Krupp drawings that feature within Panzer tracts 20-1 “Paper Panzers”. I have however added my own touches, I decided to drop the letter box vision port for the driver, this was a feature that appeared on early Panthers and it was quickly dropped as it was found to be an unwanted weak point in the glacis plate and it was soon done away with. I felt this was reason enough to drop it from my model; I replaced it with a standard vision block system. Whilst reading up on the Pz IV I found out that as the Panzer IV got heavier over the years the amount of final drive/steering failures shot up. For this reason I decided to drop the old drivers hatch arrangement. I decided to take the hatches and top hull section from the Revell King tiger re-shaped to suit the new hull. This serves two purposes, the crew can escape in an emergency as the old flip up hatches were renowned for fouling on the main gun trapping the crew in the stricken hull, and second if the final drive failed the turret would not have to be removed to replace it. Like the Panther and King tiger the Hull plate can be removed and the final drive pulled out without removing the turret and stripping out the interior of the tank. The turret has had a new gunners vision block added and the commander hatch comes from the King tiger. This cupola features the holes for the post mounted MG replacing the old style ring that was done away with in 1945. The tank has been finished in a factory applied dark green with a “what if” splinter camouflage sprayed over the top. The hard straight edge splinter camouflage was based on late war panthers and tigers photos I have seen. I was also eager to include one last thing I have seem in photos and models of late war tanks the camouflage pattern was only applied to the sides of the tank leaving the top surfaces in the base colour.
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