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The Entwicklung series ("development"), or E-Series, was a late World War II attempt by Germany to produce a standardised series of tank designs. There were to be five different weight classes (E-10, E-25, E-50, E-75 and E-100)
The E-10 would be in the 10 to 25 tonnes weight class replacement of the Jagdpanzer 38(t). The E-25 designs, in the 25-50 tonnes weight class, were to be the replacements of all Panzer III and Panzer IV based designs. The E-50 Standardpanzer was intended as a standard medium tank, replacing the Panther and Tiger I and the conversions based on these tanks. The E-75 Standardpanzer was intended to be the standard heavy tank to be used as a replacement of the Tiger II and Jagdtiger. The E-100 was to be a superheavy combat tank designed to be the replacement for the prototype-only Maus. Development and building of a prototype E-100 started in 1944 but was largely abandoned after the end of the development of the Maus. |
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There were two snap kits in the box. I wasn't too fond of the tracks as they felt thick and simple. I decided to replace them with the tracks from an Esci Panther. |
Removing the old tracks isn't too bad, just boring and a bit time consuming maybe.
I cut the tracks close to the sides of the wheels with a sprue cutter and then removed the tracks around the wheels with a sharp hobby knife.
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| The first kit was built out of the box (well except for the tracks). I opted for a primer red base colour with green stripes on this one. |
With the second one I played around a little.
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| I used the front fenders from a Hasegawa Panther and rear fenders from the AMC Sturmtiger. There are also spare tracks from the Dragon Panther and finally "schürzen" from the Matchbox Jagdpanzer IV just to get a different look. The IR parts are included in the kit. |
| I opted for a primer red base for this one to but late war city fighting got my mind racing. I am associating to red brick rubble when I'm thinking about that, so the red primer base was used again this time with red-brown and dunkelgelb urban camo, leaving the green out completely. I used the Berlin brigade Chieftain's camo as a pattern for this. |
E100.
Only the chassis was finished. It was taken to the United Kingdom for evaluation purposes and eventually scrapped.
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| The kit from Dragon was built out of the box |
| Personally, I'm not too fond of the green, but I left it like this. It was brighter before I gave it a black wash. |
| The Maus wasn't a part of the E-series but still it fits in here in a way, |
| (Model finished 2006) |
| This is a 1/72 scale kit from Pegasus Hobbies |
| Stockholm May 22, 2019 |  |
Updated December 28, 2023 |
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