Russian and German Construction Equipment

[Capt.Marion]

Folks-

I'm making map that is centered around a road in the process of being built. Could anyone find me some Pictures, Blueprints, and/or Static Meshes of both Russian and German construction equipment of the 40's?

that would be awesome...

 

[CrazyThumbs]

A quick google didn't turn up anything useful.

I guess you could include some of he Bergpanzer tanks, though I think they were more used for recovery than construction. I'm not really sure though.
http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/german/vpberge.htm
You might be able to find more things in the gallery.

 

[Capt.Marion]

thats exactly like what I'm looking for, thanks!

 

[CrazyThumbs]

Found a Ruskie one on that site to,
http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/russia/stalinetss60_ychiyama.html

 

[Capt.Marion]

hmmm... never thought that crawler would be Gasoline... unless the model had a distributor for a diesel engine... scuse my ramblings...


Thanks!

 

[SchutzeSepp]

the bergepanzer tanks were only used to tow other tanks, not road constructing.

i believe at that time things were mostly done by hand, hydrolic excavators didn't really exist.
maybe steam-powered troll excavators?

 

[Nestor Makhno]

The use of the Panther chassis for such a role seems a bit wasteful. It's like having a Rolls Royce and only using it as a snowplough

 

[RedGuardist]

Well. Obviously towing can also be done with style.

 

[SchutzeSepp]

peiper to hitler "with all respect, we desperately need those panthers on the front! hitler: "wass!!?? nein!! ve need those panthers to finish the autobahn! so the russians can get quicker to berlin!! dumkopf!"