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  Item Name: .German KRUPP A7V Sturmpanzerwagen 504 "Schnuck" France 1918
  Kits .Meng
  Scale: .1:35
 Builder:.Volcano
 Item Status:.Built To Order / Pre-Order

Detail features:

Award winner built and painted a precise replica of the first German tank with realistic weathering. Famous 504 "Schnuck" France 1918, captured by the New Zealand Division with accurate unit markings. The interiors of the fighting compartment and the driver’s compartment are realistically reproduced. Hatches and viewing ports with detail on both sides. Track links and wheel detail. Precision PE brass parts and clear included.

- Top building quality of a beautiful kit with very fine detail and crisp molding.
- large size of Length: 229mm and Width: 100mm.
- The model realistically represents this WWI German tank.
- Meng has done a very good job of capturing the rivet detail
- Its exteriors are accurately represented.
- Krupp’s unique riveted hull is perfectly replicated. The eye-catching rivets Feel like the real ones.
- The hull roof with a separate driver’s compartment.
- All hatches and viewing ports can be built open or closed.
- All doors with details on both sides.
- The main gun is a really nice piece with a full breech.
- The six machine guns were very nicely detailed and each supplied with a belt of ammo.
- Machine guns can move freely.
- The interiors of the fighting compartment have rich details with main gun, rifles, grenades, ammunition boxes and more.
- Great interior driver’s compartment detail on seats, control sticks, steering wheel, paddles and more.
- Interior floor with crisp anti-slip texture.
- The distinct chassis structure is realistically replicated.
- Chassis with very crisp detail with lot of bolt finish.
- Track links are easy to assemble.
- Add towing cable, muffler detail and more.

Buffing and polishing to remove mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Airbrushed and painted with multicolored. Add clear paint for good finishing on decal applying. Washing to enhance the surface detail increases the appearance of depth, including panels, doors, hatches, rivets, bolt heads, and more. Dry brushing to emphasis and highlight texture with edge for good wear, tear and fading—multi-color filters for blending color effects. Add non-glossy paint for better finishing. Great detail paint job on rust and paint chips off with scratches, worn and bare metal realistically simulated, flow rust and rain streaks effects, grease with staining appearing, engine smoking and muffler burned representing. Also smear and dirt with dust and real mud and more on real-life weathering. Final protective layer for long-term collection.

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A7V Sturmpanzerwagen 504 "Schnuck" France 1918

Author: James H Reeve, Edited: Charlie Clelland

A7V #504 was originally completed as a cargo-carrying Geländewagen but became a fighting Tank when the chassis of another vehicle failed and the armoured body was transferred. It was then fitted with a Russian 57mm and named Schnuck.

Schnuck’s career was short. She took part in the successful attack at Villers-Bretonneux in April 24th, 1918, and in the indecisive action at Reims on June 1st. On August 31st, at Frémicourt, after a 20Km trek to get into position, she and A7V Hagen were hit by their own artillery. She was only very slightly damaged, but her crew abandoned her. The attack failed and Schnuck was captured by New Zealand troops.

The New Zealanders, unlike the Australians, did as they were told and handed their trophy over to the British. Schnuck and Hagen were exhibited for a time in London after the War and then broken up, but Schnuck»s 57mm gun was acquired by the Imperial War Museum. It spent many years not at the main museum in London, where there is a stunning collection of Great War artifacts, but at the branch in Cambridgeshire, which is predominantly an aircraft museum.

However, in 2002 a new museum opened in Manchester and the gun was transferred to form part of the exhibition. It is one of only two which survive. The other is, of course, in Mephisto in The Queensland Museum.

The 57mm in its original state and as displayed. The object above the gunner’s left hand is a steel plate forming the recoil shield. The two wheels are for traverse and elevation, and the firing handle is on the right.



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A7V 504 Schnuck was issued to Abteilung 2 and is believed to have seen action on four occasions. The first was near Cachy (south of Villers-Bretonneux) on 24 April 1918; the second north of Reims on 31 May; the third at Forêt de la Montagne de Reims on 15 July; and lastly the fourth near Frèmicourt, on 31 August, where it was inadvertently engaged by friendly fire, abandoned and subsequently captured by the New Zealand Division, along with A7V 528 Hagen.

The inset shot centre left above shows Schnuck on a train after capture, bearing at least 3 hits on its right bow, which have blown off the right vision port hatches and most of the paint.

Schnuck was later taken back to Britain along with Hagen, where they were exhibited on Horse Guards Parade in London. Both were scrapped not long after the war, as shown in the photos at right. Schnuck`s main gun and Sockelafette mount survive in the IWM collection, however.