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Wednesday, 16 November 2011

20mm Painted WW2 Zeltbahn German Tents.

These metal beauties are from TQD and are supposed to be painted in the 1931 Splittermuster pattern (well my attempt at it anyway), the zeltbahn (tent quarter) was developed in 1931 and could be used as a rain cape, a means of personal camouflage, as a means to construct multi person shelters. In emergencies, it was even prescribed as the basis for a jury rigged flotation device.

There were standard designs for creating four, eight and sixteen man tents from the tent quarter.

Some pictures of painted zeltbahn's for scale and size purpose and some actual ones in use.

Zeltbahn tent.

Rain cape.







  
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41 comments:

  1. Ray Rousell16 November 2011 at 10:18

    Nice job Fran........How's the PS3??

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  2. Paul16 November 2011 at 10:20

    Sweet looking encampment. Well done.

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  3. Paul O'G16 November 2011 at 10:28

    So kewl - useful in many different senarios

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  4. Mark16 November 2011 at 10:45

    That is one pretty versatile tent, and I'm not sure I ever thought I'd say that.

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  5. Rodger16 November 2011 at 11:21

    Very nice Fran. They look cool.

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  6. Trey16 November 2011 at 11:24

    Those practical-minded Deutsche and their kleine Zelte!

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  7. Simon Quinton 16 November 2011 at 11:36

    Nice tents, the camo looks really good.

    LOL did you recover the game?

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  8. Christopher(aka Axebreaker)16 November 2011 at 12:05

    Really very cool and I sympathize with painting German muster camo's as they are quite difficult and is probably why it takes me forever to paint my FJ's!

    Christopher

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  9. Unknown16 November 2011 at 12:07

    Wow! Cool! That's nice! Good Idea! I like this!

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  10. The Angry Lurker16 November 2011 at 12:08

    @Brummie: Got the game back at least.

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  11. The Angry Lurker16 November 2011 at 12:09

    @Ray:The PS3 is still fecked.

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  12. Dustee16 November 2011 at 12:32

    Oh wow these tents are really neat. :) Also, I got the mini in the mail yesterday. Thank you so much. It's SO tiny! haha.

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  13. Unknown16 November 2011 at 12:33

    Very well don Fran.

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  14. Remco16 November 2011 at 12:49

    LOL, think you could make them yourself, but nice idea!

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  15. Henry's Tat16 November 2011 at 12:53

    Out of intrest what are you going to use them for??

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  16. DEZMOND16 November 2011 at 13:30

    when are we going camping?

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  17. Chris C.16 November 2011 at 13:45

    Very cool -- excellent job with the camo pattern.

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  18. Anonymous16 November 2011 at 13:50

    Sweet, multipurpose tents. The helmet on top is just makes this even more awesome. I could imagine fitting a PaK in there.

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  19. Vampifan16 November 2011 at 13:53

    Good work as always.

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  20. Monty16 November 2011 at 14:00

    Great work again! Must admit I've been looking at TQD closely since your recent posts - very nice, also as per my last post I continue to maintain a cndle-lit vigil for your PS3...

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  21. Zombie16 November 2011 at 14:15

    Those tents look nice and cozy for those little Germans! :D

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  22. The Angry Lurker16 November 2011 at 14:35

    @Henry's Tat: Scenery only at the moment.

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  23. Luckyjoe16 November 2011 at 15:13

    Nice job on those. They'd beerfect for a bunch of partisans to sneak up on to machine gun them.

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  24. T. Banacek16 November 2011 at 15:57

    They look good! I like the helmets on top.

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  25. Bart16 November 2011 at 16:59

    so these were rain coats that doubled as tents? awesome. nice craftsmanship too

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  26. Dan16 November 2011 at 17:39

    Nice work and reference pictures

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  27. Melanie16 November 2011 at 19:04

    its like the swiss army knives of tents! they look great!

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  28. GEM Team16 November 2011 at 19:42

    i like it. very nice

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  29. Sub Radar (Mike)16 November 2011 at 19:47

    Never seen those kind of tents before, they look quick and easy to set up.

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  30. The Happy Whisk16 November 2011 at 22:25

    What's this I read? Problems with the PS3????

    You know, they make 360's now.

    :-)

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  31. Life, Liberty and Accountability16 November 2011 at 22:53

    nice job as usual

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  32. Jay16 November 2011 at 23:49

    well done! :D

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  33. Mike17 November 2011 at 02:19

    Nice work. The camp us well done. Scenario idea; the Germans have captured a single building on the road side the tents are setup around it. At dawn, the Home Guard attack!

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  34. mamtc17 November 2011 at 03:02

    I love this with photo and the miniature. The tents are cute and perfect.

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  35. Dangerous Brian17 November 2011 at 03:16

    Lovely job as usual Fran.

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  36. The Extraordinarii17 November 2011 at 08:53

    Suprisingly good results for a difficult scheme.

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  37. Curt17 November 2011 at 18:02

    A great job on some very cool little models. I like these 'fillers' to the collection as it adds character to the tabletop.

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  38. Unknown18 November 2011 at 07:18

    I love how they put the helmets on top.

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  39. MiniMike18 November 2011 at 09:42

    Good work. Tents look lovely and useful

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  40. tidders219 November 2011 at 12:04

    nice work on the tents

    -- Allan

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  41. Jason Meyers22 November 2011 at 03:55

    Very cool tent models.

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