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Rear turret
storage bin is called Rommelkist (Rommel's Hump),
referred to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel who commanded Deutsches
Afrika Korps (DAK) in North Africa 1942 - 1943. External storage was not needed during the Polish - Low Countries - France campaigns from 1939 to 1940 due to close logistical proximity to Germany. By 1941, Germans offensives into North Africa
and Soviet Union logistically required armored units to carry as much provisions as possible, including fuel, ammunition, and personal items. Since German DAK formations were the first to extensively used this storage bin type, they nicknamed it Rommel's Hump. German Afrika Korps - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAK
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Rollover : Vehicle number 222 referred to 2nd Company - 2nd Platoon - 2nd Vehicle. Inverted-Y symbol on Rommelkist and rear engine deck was official symbol for German 3rd Panzer Division. Muffler painted TESTOR Earth Brown and dry-brushed via TESTOR Red Brown to represent superheated annealed
metal. Powdery layer of brown pastel dusted onto model to represent road dust.
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Tow cables painted TESTOR Black, dry-brushed TESTOR Chrome. Helmets and water canister painted TESTOR Forest
Green, glued in place with Silicon water pipe sealant (silicon will securely hold without scarring plastic surfaces compared to model glue or liquid cement).
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Tank
tracks shows a 40cm track design with ice treads (zigzag pattern on track's teethes), painted TESTOR
Military Brown, washed in POLLY-S Black + Alcohol for darker tint, dry-brushed in TESTOR Chrome. In real world, these skeleton-type tracks weight 1,500 pounds and was made from highly resilient manganese steel.
- Panzertruppen at War ( ISBN: 962-361-626-0 ) 1998
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