SD.KFZ.2 Type 82 Kubelwagen

Product Number: #300002

Piece Count: 414

Faction: Germany

Scale: 1:35

Recommended Age: 6+

About this set

A 1:35 scale Kübelwagen-style utility vehicle with a sturdy chassis and a simple, satisfying construction. Perfect as a support vehicle for dioramas, checkpoints, or convoy scenes alongside larger armor builds. The SD.KFZ.2 Type 82 Kubelwagen subject reflects German armored and support-vehicle design trends from the first half of the twentieth century, when factories raced to balance armor, firepower, and mobility. Crew training emphasized teamwork under stress—driver, gunner, and commander each depended on hatches, vision blocks, and intercom layouts reflected in many period photographs. Logistics mattered as much as duels: fuel consumption, spare parts, and recovery vehicles determined whether an armored unit could fight again the next morning. Today, restored museum hulls, technical drawings, and veteran memoirs together help historians separate factory-standard features from field modifications. Anti-tank and artillery counterparts evolved in parallel, so the “paper” performance of one gun often met a moving target, slope effects, and range estimation errors in real engagements. Cold-weather trials, desert dust, and urban rubble each exposed different failure modes that later production blocks attempted to correct. Historical records tie designs like the SD.KFZ.2 Type 82 Kubelwagen to German materiel priorities of the World War II era, when commanders demanded more firepower, mobility, and survivability from the same tight industrial budgets. Full-scale vehicles were iterated in response to battlefield feedback: thicker plates, revised suspensions, and new guns often arrived faster than official manuals could be reprinted.

• High-quality ABS plastic construction
• Detailed instruction manual included
• Compatible with major building block brands