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During
the early months of WW1, most of the opponents of the German Army
fielded Armoured Cars, and the OHL, reluctantly impressed,
ordered the construction of similar vehicles. The order was given in
a sort of competition to the three firms of Daimler, Ehrhardt
and Büssig. The vehicle constructed by Büssig in
1915, the A5P, was, in line with not so few other German
efforts in this genre, quite a behemoth, some 9.5 meters long,
and weighing 10.2 tons, but only equipped with a 6-cylinder motor,
giving it a top speed of 35 km/h. It was equipped with 3 MG:s and
manned by a crew of no less than nine. As the Ehrhardt was found to
be superior no more than this single copy was built, but it was used
on the Eastern Front, by the Panzerkraftwagen-MG-Zug 1, for
example in Romania in 1916, and in the Ukraine in 1918.
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My model is built from the fine kit by MGM. (For a review of this kit, click here!) It has been built pretty much out of the box, with a few small modifications: the steps have been replaced, as has the MG in the turret: it now represents the A5P in it's later guise, equipped with one 20mm automatic cannon. Also, a number of rails and handles have been deleted, as photographic evidence shows that they were not always fitted. (I belive that they were mainly used during maintainance.) Click on the thumbnails to see more views of this model:
