Culemeyer 80 t

Name Culemeyer 80 ton (# HLP 72008)

Manufacturer
Hauler , CZ

Packing Cardboard box with a photo of a built model on the top

Kit type Resin model

Quality
Model contains 56 parts (out of which 24 wheels) cast from resin and a small fret with photo-etched parts, all in an excellent quality, which has become tradition with the products of Hauler. Nevertheless, I have to add that there are all 12 identical parts – leaf springs/wheel supports (part no. 4) – missing in my kit, which does not seem to be an accident, it looks like a system failure in completion of the kits.

Model can be built in two variants: with a transportation platform for transport of vehicles or without it – there are rails on the top of the trailer for a transport of wagons then.

Instructions Black and white, clear (history of the type in Czech and English, construction of the model in five diagrams, 5 reference photos of the real vehicle)

Decals
None (and none needed)

General impression & Note
Excellent choice of a supplement type of a vehicle for dioramas! These heavy trailers were used by German Reich Railroads (Deutsche Reichsbahn) for a transport of railway wagons on roads; the army used them for a transport of heavy artillery pieces and of vehicles. History of the trailer is described in the instructions attached.

I have not found a drawing of this trailer in any book. For a test, I placed a model of the Jagdtiger by ESCI on the transportation platform – it is of a practically the same length (without a barrel) and about 5 mm wider on both sides, which corresponds with a period photograph in the instructions of the model. It is interesting to learn that a book „German Military Trailers and Towed Equipment 1935-1945“ (by Horst Beiersdorf, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1995) states a loading capacity of this trailer 60 ton and not 80 ton

The trailer Culemeyer is a welcome enrichment of vehicles for dioramas – it will for sure form an impressive combination with a prime mover Sd.Kfz. 9 FAMO.

Name	Culemeyer 80 ton (# HLP 72008)
Manufacturer	Hauler , CZ
Packing	Cardboard box with a photo of a built model on the top
Kit type	Resin model
Quality	Model contains 56 parts (out of which 24 wheels) cast from resin and a small fret with photo-etched parts, all in an excellent quality, which has become tradition with the products of Hauler. Nevertheless, I have to add that there are all 12 identical parts – leaf springs/wheel supports (part no. 4) – missing in my kit, which does not seem to be an accident, it looks like a system failure in completion of the kits. Model can be built in two variants: with a transportation platform for transport of vehicles or without it – there are rails on the top of the trailer for a transport of wagons then.
Instructions	Black and white, clear (history of the type in Czech and English, construction of the model in five diagrams, 5 reference photos of the real vehicle)
Decals	None (and none needed)
General impression & Note	Excellent choice of a supplement type of a vehicle for dioramas! These heavy trailers were used by German Reich Railroads (Deutsche Reichsbahn) for a transport of railway wagons on roads; the army used them for a transport of heavy artillery pieces and of vehicles. History of the trailer is described in the instructions attached. I have not found a drawing of this trailer in any book. For a test, I placed a model of the Jagdtiger by ESCI on the transportation platform – it is of a practically the same length (without a barrel) and about 5 mm wider on both sides, which corresponds with a period photograph in the instructions of the model. It is interesting to learn that a book „German Military Trailers and Towed Equipment 1935-1945“ (by Horst Beiersdorf, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1995) states a loading capacity of this trailer 60 ton and not 80 ton The trailer Culemeyer is a welcome enrichment of vehicles for dioramas – it will for sure form an impressive combination with a prime mover Sd.Kfz. 9 FAMO.