LazyLife 1:50 Hornisse/Nashorn

[CharlieC]

Recent release of a 1:50 scale Nashorn.

The Nashorn had the very powerful 88mm KwK 43 anti-tank gun mounted in a hybrid Panzer III/IV chassis. Armour protection was fairly minimal but the long range of the gun meant the Hornisse (Hornet)/ Nashorn (Rhinoceros) could stay out of range of most tank guns. The name was changed by Hitler in 1944 - apparently he didn't like the insect names for armoured vehicles.

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I guess the model could be converted to a Hummel model with 15cm howitzer since it used the same chassis.

Charlie

[Don Boose]

Thanks for this info, Charlie.

It's outside my range of paper armor/mech interests, but looks like a superb model.

Don

[Mike1158]

Nice find, thanks mate.

[Vinalssergio155]

A few weeks ago DNUNEZ in the Foute Man thread also announced this, interesting model and in 1/48, there are also 2 other models in this scale, Valentine MK ll and Type 4-Chito.