The Steyr ADGZ - the German heavy armored car

The ADGZ (Polizei-Panzerkampfwagen ADGZ) is an all-wheel-drive heavy armored vehicle, used in the German army and police during World War II. Designed for the Austrian army and police at “Austro-Daimler-Puch”, which was soon swallowed by “Steyr” in 1933-1934. At the time of Anschlus, 12 ADGZs were held by the Austrian army and 15 by the police. The Germans began using these machines exclusively for police purposes. Several ADGZ’s were used by SS units in the Eastern Front and the Balkans, and at least one machine of this type was brought to Klaipeda by A. Hitler, when the German Navy Squadron arrived here on March 23, 1939. The SS ordered another 25 machines, which were delivered in 1942. This car did not have a rear part - both were "front": both "front" was fitted with a driver's seat with full controls and devices. The 3rd Battalion “Ostmark” of the SS 4th Regiment, reinforced with local volunteers and renamed the SS “Heimwehr Danzig”, used armored vehicles for the ADGZ battles outside the Free City Gdansk Post Office on 1 September 1939. Later, when Germany invaded the USSR, T - 26 towers of Soviet trophy tanks were installed in several ADGZs.

A fairly complex and well-detailed model of an armored car with full interior equipment detalization. But not so complex, that, under the supervision of a more experienced colleague, it could not be glued by little experienced and advanced beginner modelers. The model recreates the appearance of the machine, used in the battles for the post office of the Free City of Gdańsk on September 1, 1939.