Horch PKW rear section showing variety of national and tactical markings. During early war years, Germans were well known for variety of insignias identifying the vehicles army group, division assignment, tactical purpose. German national insignia is the White Balkenkruez (Balkan Cross), to left is large K for Army Group Kliest, right marking of rectangle + wheels + white bars is all-wheeled transport mounting anti-aircraft gun, number 3 means 3rd company,

White circle and diameter line refers Hermann Goering regiment's 1st FLAK Battalion. Did not have any Hermann Goering unit decals when I built the model, thus used a German 23rd Panzer Division marking and rotated its placement.

Brown duffle bag from TAMIYA SdKfz 250 half-track kit, straps were made from masking tape, painted in TESTOR Military Brown. Overall model dry brushed with TESTOR Desert Tan to depict heavy layer of road dust. Roads on 1940s Polish-Russian frontier were basically wide lane dirt roads, conducive for motorized traffic when it was dry, but during raining and winter seasons these roads were a complete quagmire.

Rollover : All German military vehicles carried license plates of respective service branch. WL means Wehrmacht Luftwaffe (air force), there were also WH for Wehrmacht Heere (Army), WM for Wehrmacht Marine (Navy), SS for Schultzstaffel (referring to both Waffen-SS and Allgemeine-SS branches). SS - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schultzstaffel

White L-shape markings on vehicle edge is to keep night convoy distance to prevent collisions. Exhaust pipe hollowed out with X-ACTO knife. Horch painted standard German Panzer-grey scheme 1939-1943 for central European forests. By 1943, base camouflage changed to African-yellow to compensate for Soviet Union open steppe terrain. By late-1944, base camouflage changed again to Forest Green as German forces pushed back into central Europe for last-ditched defense.

Horch PKW German designation is Schwere Gelandegangiger Einheits Personenkraftwagen (heavy cross-country personnel transport), abbreviated s gl Einh PKW. Such German nomenclature seems cryptic, but has origins German engineering culture and is actually very descriptive when one understand how to read the standards. For example, TANK in English can referred to armored tank or water tank, but German usage of Pzkpfw means specifically Panzerkampfwagen (metal-box fighting vehicle) or armored tank. Panzer - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerkampfwagen

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