German APV / Spähpanzer Kätzchen BMM 1/35

Plastic kit for an armoured German personnel carrier/reconnaissance vehicle Kätzchen

• Scale 1:35
• 350+ parts
• Incl. interior fittings (without engine replica)
• Photo-etched parts included
• Not built, not painted
• Paint and glue not included

In early 1943 the German Army general staff called for the development of a new armored personnel carrier.  The idea was a fully tracked armored vehicle with high speed, large operating range and payload and low  ground pressure. However after the Battle of Kursk this development was no longer important.

Two  prototypes with Praga Wilson gear box were made, one powered with Tatra 103 diesel engine and the other  with Tatra NR engine.

They were slightly wider and more heavily armored than earlier tested prototypes produced by Auto-Union,  yet faster than them. In mass production they would have been proven to be suitable reconnaissance  vehicles and good armored personnel carriers. What happened with the two prototypes after the war is not known.