BPM 1/100th scale 15cm sFH 13 auf GWLrS (f)

 Well, strictly, according to Chamberlain and Doyle it is a 15cm sFH 13 Selbstfahrlafette Lorraine Sdkfz 135/1. In other words, yet another lashed up German self propelled gun on a captured chassis. 

And what a lovely little piece it is. I wanted another German SP 150mm gun, and this one is a lot smaller than a Hummel! This Lorraine chassis conversion mounted a WW1 era 150mm howitzer, and around 100 were built which fairly widely issued including to the Afrika Korps, which is handy. I think they were mainly used in the SP heavy infantry gun platoons of Panzergrenadier regiments. 

This model is a BPM resin 3D print.

It is a three piece model, the hull, a separate gun and the recoil spade, and that is all. Lots of nice rivets and sharp edges and a good crisp print in all respects with no obvious striations. 

Lovely internal detail too, including a ready rack of 150mm rounds on the right hand side. No crew supplied (boo!) but I managed to wedge this Peter Pig DAK gunner into it. I might have got another figure in, but one was quite enough as the vehicle is tiny, which is why the gun compartment is built out over the tracks.

The DAK versions were supplied in two tone camo. Strangely the illustration in Chamberlain and Doyle shows red/brown disruptive but every other picture I've seen of these has them with green disruptive, so I did the distinctive vertical stripe camo in green. Obviously they are good for Europe and Russia too. Otherwise they seem to have been quite plain, with just balkan crosses, so this got one cross either side of the fighting compartment, neatly lined up with one of the panel lines. Some of them seem to have been plastered in crosses however (as captured vehicles perhaps?) but that just seemed an extravagant waste of decals. 

I did the gunner in DAK olive green, which tbh looks like faded Field Grey anyway, and gave the whole thing a like drybrush of pale sand. Unusually for me I also painted the tyres on the road wheels, as on this suspension type it is fairly easy to do.