Flakpanzer IV Möbelwagen (late)OK, the last Flakpanzer IV.
If you are busy building some Flakpanzers, you discover all kinds of variants. You can make choices, or just build one more.
Before this one, I built the prototype of the
Möbelwagen, equippped with a quadruple 20mm Flak. For the production vehicle, it was decided to replace the 20mm Flak with the more powerful 37mm Flak 43.
Prototype of the Möbelwagen with 37mm Flak43 during a propaganda photshoot.
240 of it were built during the last year of the war. The first ones were operational in april 1944 on the Western Front, in time for D-Day. During production some simplifications were introduced to ease production. Therefore you can distinguish between early and late production models. I decided to build a late production model, to have as much as possible differences from my earlier prototype model.
Early production model with bent sidewalls.
Late production model with straight side walls.
Two Möbelwagens during the Battle of Arnhem. Left the older exhaust system, with muffler, right the simpler later exhaust system with lots of noise.
What are the differences between my earlier built prototype and this larte production Möbelwagen?
- 37mm Flak 43 instead of quadruple 20mm Flak.
- Straight sidewalls instead of bent sidewalls.
- loopholes in three of four sides.
- Simplified exhaust system
- Steel return rollers instead of rubber rimmed return rollers
- Field applied camouflage.
- Lot's of mud and dirt.
This nice picture of a captured Möbelwagen is one of my sources of inspiration for the final result.