The Polish publisher's Topcolors guide Beutepanzer offers artwork and decals for Allied tanks liberated by the Germans.
One easy way to make any military vehicle more interesting, is to portray it as fighting for the ‘other side’. This is the theme of Kagero’s Topcolors 41 book, Beutepanzer (which loosely translates as ‘booty tank’). Here, the firm provides 16 colour profiles of Allied tanks in German markings, along with the relevant decals in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/35 – and there’s great variety too as no vehicle type is repeated… they are all different. Examples of French, British, Soviet and US armour all feature. The options are:
• Pz.Kpfw. 38H (f) – Hotchkiss H35 mod.39 Paderborn, France, summer 1940
• Bren 731 (e) (Scout Carrier), 5. Flughafen-Betriebs-Kompanie, Luftwaffe II./KG 55, Chartres, France, 1940-41
• Schwimm-Pz.Kpfw. T-38 (r), Sanitatsabteilung 30, 30. Infanterie Division, Soviet Union, 1941
• Schwimm-Pz.Kpfw. T-40 (r), ‘2/203’, 2. Batterie, Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 203, Eastern Front, winter 1941-42
• Gepanzerter Mannschaftstransportwagen M3 (a) – M3 half-track, WL-454305, Flak-Division 19, Tunisia, 1943 (note, no registration plate provided)
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