The Wehrmacht's War Machine: Panzer IV and Its Variants 

Adam, I’m visiting the museum in May. Do you need any photos?…

Awesome video! Very informative and well definitely help with my modeling skills. Thanks!!

I wasn’t aware there was SO many track shoe variants! This must’ve been a nightmare for the Germans. Good job on acquiring so many actual shoes, I know that wasn’t an easy task. Kevin DeVos.

Atta boy, Adam!

@@michaelsmeltzer1105 I don't think so. Awesome you're going though.

40+ years of "doing tanks" here and same. Why did they bother, because nobody used chemical weapons ? IIRC the only chemical weapons incident was when German bombers sank a US transport ship in Bari which happened to have some mustard gas (???) arty shells on board.

​@@ottovonbismarck2443 The Germans Only Used Poison Gas On A Town That Was Full Of Jews Homosexuals And Pols In 1942 But That Was The Only Incident I know Of... Hitler Was Against Using Poison Gas On The Allies Attack For Fear Of Exposure To Himself And To His Superior's I Think The Russians Might Have But Not Sure The Rest Of The Allies Had The Public View On The War So They Didnt Use Any Until United States Faced The Japanese Islands Then The Public View Turned There Heads The Other Way Due To Many Americans Being Killed By The Japs

Excellent details for modellers, currently finishing a Tamiya Panzer IV H.

Absolutely. Im thinking of going on a road trip up (or cheap flight) and taking some detail photos for reference

@@stinkypete9070 hope you get there. I reckon a great day and worth the look. Just finishing weathering a 1/48 T34/72. I am starting a HobbyBoss KV1 it is the version with extra 25mm rivetted armour plating. Ehkranami tank, they called it.

I do the same. I was mainly doing planes till I started watching these. I'm hooked on tanks now 😅😅

​@@andyroo3022what scale is it and how much did it cost.

Try welding in the middle of Summer in Tropical Queensland.....

@@dje1944How many Aussie welders does it take to weld an Panzer IV? Ten. One to make the weld and nine to say how he would of done it better.

Amazing stuff.

@@AKguru762😂😂😂

Hey, in that matter eta320 made a video on the pz 4, 2 actually iirc. It's pretty good but it's literally hour of content, so maybe you'd like to give it a shot

You should still continue to do your modelling. You don't need to get down to the specific factory and month of production, but it helps to be aware of those details. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

you dont have to be that particular. the vehicles got worked on all the time, crews changed all sorts of parts around.

It doesn't have to be "correct". It's your model and it can look anyway you want it to. Check out "German uniform colour" in a search engine.

I suspect in the chaos of war, many vehicles probably didn't have all of the "correct" features for their production date, just whatever parts were available in the supply system.

Turretheads know it all !!.....LOL

Same here; I got the crazy idea to replicate the Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WWII in 1/35 (just 25 vehicles to go!) and a couple of years ago built all of my III's. I finally got the last couple of IV variants and may start that roadwheel nightmare next summer.

You won't be disappointed!

Thats a great idea ! Seconded!

I agree. I think they both approach things in a different way, certainly the workshop videos are something different and great to watch. I think the Tank Museum channel goes more into history around tanks, whilst this channel focuses on how they were built.

@@tdb7992 Yes, both are valuable, but as a mechanical engineer, the Ozzie stuff appeals to me.

It wasn't just the larger turret ring. Pzkpfw III and IV had similar sized turret rings and changing their diameter wasn't a problem. But Pzkpfw IV was also designed for more weight and potentially higher armor levels than the 3. And the larger gun means significantly more weight. This is why they actually switched to the IV.

@@dnocturn84 Turret ring diamter on the Pz III is 1530mm compared to 1600mm on the Pz IV. The long 75mm barely fits inside the Pz IV so there was simply no way to effectively mount the long 75mm in the Pz III without major changes. Since they needed tanks with effective AT guns the Pz III was simply faced out when the Panther become available, with the Pz IV only being kept in production because they couldn't afford to stop producing it.

@@kimjanek646 Agreed and I am aware. But the Ausführung K of the Pzkpfw III and the Ausführung N used Pzkpfw IV turrets, as far as I know. There was a limitied production run of a few Ausführung K (not the later produced command version with the same name), with a long barreled 7,5cm KwK (the one of the Pzkpfw IV Ausführung F2) in a normal Pzkpfw IV turret. Same happened with the N Version, where a F1 turret was paired with a Pzkpfw III hull. Those weren't original PzIII turrets with these guns, they were supposingly straight PzIV turrets. So it was possible to equip the Pzkpfw III with these more powerful guns in general. Surely, the tank gained too much weight and had to face a number of issues with this solution though. But it was a decission to not equip the Pzkpfw III with these guns and not neccessarly a limitation. The StuG III already provided a powerful and cheaper alternative to throw a long barreled 7,5cm gun on the battlefield, in an anti-tank role amongst other possible roles and the production capacity of PzIV, V and VI was prefered. The Pzkpfw III continued to fill a gap of much needed tanks in the meantime. And its 5cm gun was accepted to serve in this role.

The Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton have what is believed to be the most original F4U Corsair fighter in the world. It still has a patch of chemical sensitive paint that changed colour in the presence of gas. I think all sides had a great fear of possible gas attack following the experience of WW1.