Early GPM SdKfz 251

[rockpaperscissor]

Wow! It's really starting to shape up into a nice looking model.

[Royaloakmin]

When this was printed they only had four colour printing in Poland.

[Amccombs3]

Originally Posted by Royaloakmin

When this was printed they only had four colour printing in Poland.

If that is true, it explains a lot. I think this model does have only 4 colors. This kind of four color printing would have to be different from the cyan-magenta-yellow-black system.

More amusing details as I cut out parts for the wheels. Note the gear tooth spacing on the lower left gear.

[Siwi]

The mind boggles. I don't think any of them are spaced evenly, and you can see a few where the outline doesn't line up with the colour.

[Don Boose]

It's not called a "sow's ear" for nothing.

Great work in the face of difficult challenges, Anne!

Don

[Erik Zwaan]

Excellent work Anne. The spacing irregularity is almost hilarious. Cut all tooths off and redistribute them at 30 degr spacing?

Cheers,
Erik

[Mike1158]

^ What Erik said seems right. Perhaps get a replacement from the vendor too. Something else perhaps as fit for purpose, it seems not to be.

[modelperry]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

It's not called a "sow's ear" for nothing.

Great work in the face of difficult challenges, Anne!

Don

What Don says.....

Greg

[Doubting Thomas]

Anne,

I've only built 2 German half tracks.
1/72 ESCI plastic and 1/72 Precision paper model.

Looking at the GPM website wasn't much help either for "their" mistake.
The parts don't even look like the real sprockets on Ebay for the REAL 251.

So, you can
1. Leave them as they are.
2. Cut off half of them, because they will be hidden as seen on the GPM webpage. (standard 251 shown)

Or if it was my kit, scan the parts, import scanned image into AutoCAD, fix positions of sprocket teeth. Maybe even make them sit in the middle of the sprocket instead of the edges as drawn by GPM. I would make a new inner sprocket with the teeth there. Could even detail kit ones to look more accurate too.

Coloring the new parts in Photoshop. Then sandwiching the revised inner tooth sprocket between the revised new sprocket circles without teeth.

It's all up to you. Waiting to see what you come up with.

[Erik J]

I relocated the sprockets using a graphics editor. They are now a light gray to be bare metal, which seems more realistic. Only so much one can do with a sow's ear.