Blueprints.

[Foo Fighter]

Does anyone have links to quality blueprints of German tank and anti-tank guns of WW2 please?

Still trying to find some in decent quality/detail.

 

[Hobbes]

Are you looking specifically for blueprints? i.e. white lines on a blue background, used to make copies of original drawings?

I'm asking because the search query "Bf-109 blueprint" won't find this for example:

That's a drawing, but not a blueprint.

 

[Foo Fighter]

I have tried searching for all kinds, even plain images but nothing useful. Hoping to produce a reasonably accurate cad model and then port it to a paper/card model.

 

[Hobbes]

Have you looked at CAD model repositories?
STL Finder (https://www.stlfinder.com/) is a specialized search engine for this.

or searching in German (flak 88 zeichnung)?

 

[Foo Fighter]

STL Finder like any search engine is out to give you what it wants to sell you rather than what you want to find, unless the two are in accord. Nothing there. Searching in German? Well pak 42 l70 75mm is near enough German as you get and still zero. It is an imperfect world but I think another trip to the Tank museum may be in order as long as we are not locked down again......

 

[galgot]

Are you looking for a specific model of tank or gun ?

 

[Foo Fighter]

Basically those fitted to Jagdpanzers like the 38t but the target is for a representative of the E-25 if they cobbled some together from whatever they had in place at the time. Later on I hope to produce all of the Jagdpanzer types.

I think I am realistically looking at the 38/40 and 42 75mm guns as anything larger would not fit.

 

[galgot]

For 42 75mm, found this :

from here:

Panther1944 - Main gun (75mm KwK 42 L/70)

Panther 1944 - der Panzerkampfwagen Panther

www.panther1944.de

of course when searching for the 42 75mm, I end up with a sh...load of stuff on the Panther.
Like these Panther turret drawings :

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from here:

Немецкий тяжелый танк «Пантера» - ЯПлакалъ

www.yaplakal.com

Also found this :

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Blueprints of the 7.5 cm Pak 41 barrel. From here :

Devourer of Tungsten

A blog about World War II era archive documents, primarily dealing with armoured warfare.

www.tankarchives.ca

The Blueprints site has a lot of guns blueprints to download , but not super quality :

https://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/weapons/artillery-and-cannons/

 

[Foo Fighter]

Thanks very much indeed. I tried the blueprints.com some time ago and agree ref the quality. PM on it's way.

 

[ArmchairSamurai]

I am hijacking this dead thread to see if anyone knows where I can find the origin of this blueprint for the Tankgeweher M1918. The website below is where all other sources of the image lead back to. I will email the chap who owns the website to see if he can provide anything, though I would be lying if I said I believed he would reply to my inquiry. The website was last updated in 2013. Any thoughts? The resolution is too low to make out anything except "Minute 136" at the top.

https://www.antitank.co.uk/ww1_anti-tank_rifles1.htm

 

[ArmchairSamurai]

Likewise, does anybody have an idea where this blueprint for Operation Dagwood is? The only place I could find it is in the 1947 Marinship book on their history as a company. I specifically bought that old book just for this blueprint--I tracked down authors, historians, and the like, for all for them to point to this book--and yet I hear there are additional blueprints, in addition to blueprints for Operation Ironside portable harbors as well, somewhere...

EDIT: I misremembered. Dagwood is a lower-level code name for Iron Horse (not Ironside). They are the same thing, though some authors seem to confuse that fact to mean two separate operations.