A7V TANK
Krupp Armour
Model by Franco Fusco
The ground groans, the air turns to static, and the horizon becomes a wall of churning iron. Out of the swirling mists of No Man's Land, the A7V KRUPP Armour emerges—not as a machine, but as a force of nature.
It advances with a terrifying, rhythmic thrum, indifferent to the cratered mire that has swallowed so many men before. From its steel flanks, a relentless torrent of machine-gun fire reaps through the fog, while the thunder of its cannon turns the earth into shrapnel. Allied soldiers scramble from their trenches, abandoning their posts as the realisation sets in: there is no cover, there is no stopping it, and there is no mercy.
Unstoppable and fearless, the A7V grinds over the wreckage of the front, delivering death with every turn of its tracks. The mud of the Great War has found its master.
This Bundle will allow you to have on your table the following four A7V tanks in 28mm scale of the first lot that received the new Sockellafette (pedestal gun mount), exhaust pipes and the Krupp armour plates that had to be cut in five sections as turned up slightly curved: 541 (unnamed), 542 “Elfriede”, 543 “Bulle”, all in dark Feldgrau (as they most likely appeared during the Second Battle of the Somme), and 544/504 “Schnuck” in a three tones camouflage (how it probably looked during the combats at Fremicourt on 31 August 1918).
NOTES:
The bundle consists of ten sheets for the four models to be printed on 100 g/sm and 160 g/sm (suggested) paper, and nine sheets for the instructions.
Once downloaded, the sheets can be printed as often as you like, which means you can build any number of A7V Landships very cheaply.
You will need scissors, a craft knife, a metal ruler, glue, 100 g/sm and 160 g/sm (recommended weight) paper, 1mm card (I recommend finnboard/wood pulp board), cereal box type card, light card, cocktail sticks and pins. You will also need acrylic paint pens of various colours (sepia, grey, etc...) to touch up the parts, all of which are described in the included how-to section.
The sheets are laid down in A4 format. Print your sheets at “fit to page” setting (Adobe Acrobat) onto A4 paper and US legal sized paper, on US letter size will print at 93%.
You can, of course, print the A7V Tank in any scale you choose, making it extremely flexible in this respect.
Our Motto is Paper Landships, Proper Landships!
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