Sratch build Report of a Stoewer M12 car.

[JueHue]

Hello
I would like to have my say again.Now I have some time to post the promised report. This is the Stoewer M12 car. It had 3000ccm, 8cyl. and 60 hp. The off-road capability was not very good and the engine quickly overheated.
As you can see from the headline, I have a small major project again.
It should be, or will be, the Stoewer M12 passenger car. Photos are available on the net. Or at Volker Erdmann vehicle collection to see.
There are only 3 of the Stoewer M12 out of about 500-900 models delivered to the Wehrmacht.
The Stoewer was about 5m long and 1,75m wide. It was equipped with a 3 liter, 8 cyl inline engine. A full 60 horsepower still arrived at the rear.
The Stoewer is mostly scratch built, because there is no model of it.
Some parts I have already made, partly in overlength. Some parts come from the leftover box or are casts of my model parts.(wheels, seats, steering wheel, headlights) for now.
I hope that I get along with the first selection of parts.




I think you can see everything halfway. . I have the pictures of the walk around. I need pictures that have been taken frontal. Because I take the dimensions of LxwxH as a basis and then derive the other dimensions or convert. For example tire size or distance from tire center to rim. Therefore also small large project. I tell you, this is hard work
I have done this before with my Wanderer W11 and W15.

Here I show the scratchbuild of a Stoewer M12 passenger car. As basis I took only 2 fenders of an Opel Blitz, a steering wheel, a radiator ,which I rebuilt, hood side panels of Airfix 8to half track and 6 wheels of a Horch passenger car. Everything else is scratch built.
First I built the frame by feeling (I was a car mechanic by profession.) I had some pictures of a restored car. Unfortunately, the exact frame shape was not visible on them. Then I discovered 2 photos from the museum in Zwickau. For the discovery of the photos was rewarded with the new construction of the frame.

My 4 attempts to build the front axle from one piece unfortunately failed miserably.The main reason was the plastic did not withstand the machining (milling). In the end I used a wire reinforced construction.






greetings Jürgen.

[huib]

Good start on a nice project, Jürgen.

[JueHue]

Stower M12 Part 2


I continued with the rear body and the fitting of the rear Opel Blitz fenders.
I tore apart the rear body 10 times and glued it again. The glueing and drying process caused the body to warp again and again.






The front fenders are from a Zis 3 truck from PST. I thinned out the fenders a bit from the inside at the edge to make it easier to get them into the shape I wanted.

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The figure and the cutter the as a size comparison.
This was followed by the construction of the cowl with radiator. Airfix 8to half-track and Hasgawa Isuzu truck. The front bench seat was made new .






This was followed by the construction of the exhaust and propshaft with a sophisticated stiffening of the frame.
Now I was lucky enough to find 2 matching headlights in my collection .One jumped out of my tweezers and was eaten by the carpet monster. After I have turned then a new headlight from a piece of plastic, the carpet has spat out the headlight probably again because of "not edible" again.
The black box with holes is the tank. The frame I have made new and patched. I found some pictures and had to make some changes. The fenders are fitted and glued(Opel Blitz). The shape of the fenders I have changed a bit,t in that I inserted plastic glue in the K-wing, then glued in the recess.The front axle is I think the 8th attept,
The wheels broke off several times. The wire reinforced Ausf. is the best. I cut out the shape, engraved and reinforced from behind with wire, or hung the wheels on it.
The gray fenders are from a russ. TRUCK (PST). The yellow seat cushions in the first post are also history because too small.


Have fun
Jürgen

[Peter]

Looks like a very nice project that I will follow for sure!

Is this what the final result will be when you are finished?



https://www.stoewer-cars.com/m12rw.html?r

[JueHue]

Now i have Part 3 for you.
The next part is the luggage box in the back. Then comes another treat: the passage of the propshaft and exhaust through a frame brace. The frame is a so-called ladder frame, and there must be rungs somewhere.
How sick do you have to be as a designer to come up with something like that. Since one must have studied certainly for.
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Now I have completed the new components.





The dashboard is still missing. Very complicated to build. With glove compartments in 3mm for







Stay healty
Jürgen

[Peter]

It's getting shape! Nice!

[huib]

Lovely work, Jürgen! I really enjoy your very skillfull and creative scratchwork.

[JueHue]

Part 4 isthe last.
part4

Many steps followed for all kinds of small parts. Pedals, sills, rails, handrails and so on.
There followed many more steps for all kinds of small parts. Pedals, steps, rails, handrails and so on.
It is almost finished, the Stoewer M12 in 1:72. Has me as already written, a lot of nerves and a lot of work cost. The WS will be glued on at the end. Still a little discreet aging and dusting with pigments .
First I wanted to fuschen something and take the hood from a Steyer .The hood was but too hard and has not adapted to the stern railing.
The railing I have set with steel wire pins in holes, and very thin copper wire as struts glued to the steel pins.
In the end, I built a hood scratch, as you can see, Tempo and Evergeern profiles.
The days come then the pictures of the finished model. The marking of the model to the 2nd PD in Poland, 2 dots and the signs of the message troop I have painted free hand, because I have found nothing suitable.The Nr- signs are decals.



If the text in some places do not match the photos, I apologize.
The model is from 2020 and I have written from memory, some Text from other forums with incorporated. Therefore, the small shifts in the text.


Only about 90 pieces of the Stoewer M12 were used by the Wehrmacht. There should still exist 2 pieces. As far as I know, the vehicle does not exist as a model. I have built the model for about 4 months and I am very happy with the result.
I hope you enjoyed the report. Questions I will answer with pleasure. only so much still: if I have painted my e figures comes a Dio with the scratch Wanderer W15 Staffcar.

Jürgen

[Beano Boy]

Superb model making. BB

[C M Dodson]

Superb modelling and genius attention to detail.

Best wishes,

Chris

[Peter]

Lovely work, Jürgen! I really enjoy your very skillfull and creative scratchwork.

I can only agree! You both have fantastic skills to make things like this!

[Santi Pérez]

It's amazing to see how the car is getting alive picture after picture, Jürgen.

As Chris said:

Superb modelling and genius attention to detail...

Santi.