Fine Scale Factory's 1/72 Mittlerer Feldwagen

If Tanks are perhaps the most well-known and talked about weapons of WW1 Land Warfare, then the other side of the spectrum must surely be the Horse Drawn Supply and Baggage Wagons that was the Logistical Backbone of all Armies. Motor Transport was still something of a rarity, and both at the start and at the end of the War the majority of all supply was transported on Horse drawn Wagons.

One of these was the German Mittler Feldwagen. It could take three men - including one on the horses - and were used to transport well near anything that the Army needed: food, fodder, ammunition, tools, packs, wounded men etc. It could be pulled by two or four horses, depending on the circumstances. It was successfull in it's own right, and was used even in WW2, when the German Army still very much relied on Horses.

The kit comes packed in a ziplock bag typical of FSF. The kit comes with a rudimentary but fully adequate set of plans.

The 14 parts themselves are all done i White Metal. The moulding is good, with just small amounts of flash  and some small lines, all easily cleaned off. The kit also comes with a driver, wearing late-war kit. It falls together easily, and comes with two options for cargo.

Fine Scale Factory calls this Mittler Feldwagen, which is probably correct. Well, my quandry is that I have no sources corroborating this. But I do have a sources - the WW1 Dienstunttericht für die Kriegsmannschaften der Feldartilleri - that shows the Vorratswagen 96 n/A. And it matches this wagon well, with one important exception: the front on the wagon is shaped in another way. (If you want it to be a Vorratswagen 96 n/A it needs to be corrected. See the photos above. The good news is, that this is pretty easily done.)

You can get this kit from Tracks & Troops.
 

This is a nice kit, showing a vehicle that formed the logistical backbone of the German Imperial Army.