Panzer-IVG tank pack 1

Wolfshanze

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Based on the PzKpfw-IVF1 (short-barreled) model made by Snafusmith, The Coyote modified the model with a longer barrel to reflect the up gunning of the Pz-IV to the 75mm KwK 40 L/43 gun. I then retextured the export versions to each specific nation that used this tank in Paint Shop Pro.

In March of 1942, the next variant PzKpfw-IV, the Ausf F2 was produced, followed by Ausf G in May. Some 1,687 of these 23 ton tanks were acquired by ten separate orders, issued to Krupp-Gruson, Vomag and Nibelungenwerke. Ausf F2 and Ausf G variants were based on the long version PzKpfw IV chassis and were armed with newer and more dangerous 75mm KwK 40 L/43 gun. When encountered in North Africa, British nicknamed Ausf F2 (and early Ausf G) - "Mark IV Special", since it was superior to any American or British tank at the time.

At the start of the summer offensive in Russia, late in June 1942, approximately 170 Ausf F2 and Ausf G were with units at the front. This number had increased to 841 PzKpfw-IV (long-barrelled) with Army Groups Center and South, at the start of the Kursk offensive in 1943.

The PzKpfw-IVG was perhaps the most widely exported tank from Germany... being shipped to allies to bolster their defenses and to potential allies to sway them to the Axis. Nations outside Germany which received the Pz-IV included Spain, Hungary, Finland, Turkey, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Syria.

All needed files are included in this download, including unique skins for each nation. This first pack includes skins for Germany, Finland, Hungary, Spain & Turkey. The German and Finnish skins are grey (Finland with a winter "whitewash" over it)... Hungary, Spain and Turkey come in varying shades of green.

Link your XML nif files to "PzKpfwIVAusfG.nif" and your Animation files to "PzKpfwIVAusfF.kfm". Do not delete the "PzKpfwIVAusfF.nif" file (it is needed, just don't point any XML to it).

A custom button is also included in the download.


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PzIVG.jpg


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Germany:
PzIVG_German.jpg


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Finland:
PzIVG_Finnish.jpg


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Hungary:
PzIVG_Hungarian.jpg


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Spain:
PzIVG_Spanish.jpg


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Turkey:
PzIVG_Turkish.jpg
 
Looks cool :)

BTW i think Turkey (according to wikipedia) didn't used Panzer IV
 
Pretty amazing! Only thing i would like to change is the color of swastika in Finlands panzer. It should be white blue(like the borders would be white and the centre would be blue)
 
BTW i think Turkey (according to wikipedia) didn't used Panzer IV
:rolleyes:

One has to remember Wiki is NOT the end-all-be-all answer to everything... it's user-made... and if the user doesn't know what he's talking about, then he doesn't put the right info in there.

Tankhistory.com said:
Fifteen PzKpfw Ausf G units were delivered to Turkey starting in 1943. Seven were delivered in March and eight more delivered in May. This was done to help encourage Turkey to attack the USSR or to cause the USSR to divert manpower to defend the frontier between the two nations.
Oh... and last time I checked wiki, it says Turkey used it! :groucho:

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Pretty amazing! Only thing i would like to change is the color of swastika in Finlands panzer. It should be white blue(like the borders would be white and the centre would be blue)
You might be confusing the Finnish Air Force swastika (which is definately blue) with the Finnish Army swastika... they used differant swastikas... the AF used the blue one you are referring to, the Army used a different one that was black. I could be wrong, as there are conflicting sources... but the first thing I did was google finnish tank swastika, and I ended up with a black one!

I did research on Finnish Swastikas and while it's a bit sketchy for the Army, there are multiple cases of differant styles and colors being used... I believe the army used both a different style and color then the Air Force.

I'd like to see a definitive source on this... my research turned-up mostly a confused mess, but I definately saw the Army using some black ones.

Makke... being from Finland, do you have some links/photos or something showing what color swastika the tank force used? Most of what I came up with showed black swastikas... I was ready to use blue, but when I searched for references, I mostly came-up with black ones for the Finnish tank force.

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One has to remember Wiki is NOT the end-all-be-all answer to everything... it's user-made... and if the user doesn't know what he's talking about, then he doesn't put the right info in there.
The same beeing true for the tank history page you used.

I strongly assume, that the guy who did the Tankhistory.com did a lot of research on it, and i am inclined to believe that he's right - He surely didn't make it up.
But there is no source given/quoted for the statement on this particular tank, so quoting this page for reference is as good as quoting Wiki.


Anyway - good skins - particulary the bright finland one looks nice.
 
Anyway - good skins - particulary the bright finland one looks nice.
Thanks... the white-wash was tricky to look good, but I always wanted to get one with white-wash, and Finland was a logical choice!



The same beeing true for the tank history page you used.

I strongly assume, that the guy who did the Tankhistory.com did a lot of research on it, and i am inclined to believe that he's right - He surely didn't make it up.
But there is no source given/quoted for the statement on this particular tank, so quoting this page for reference is as good as quoting Wiki.
P.S.
I altered the Wiki article to include the Turkish flag... I was going to alter the text too, but I saw the article did indeed mention the 15 tanks to Turkey, whoever did that didn't bother to include the flag though. So Wiki did-indeed mention Turkey's Panzers, there just wasn't the little flag to go along with what was stated in text... ergo, when asioasioasio quoted Wiki, he quoted in error... I assume he looked at the little "used by" flags but didn't read the text... because it did state-so in the text.

Oh... and while I refered to tankhistory.com, there are multiple sources confirming Turkey's use of the Panzer IV... so one little missing flag on a wiki page does not mean they didn't have them.
 
Wolfshanze, you did a nice job with this tank pack. :goodjob:

When I searched wikipedia several months ago for a WW 2 scenario for Civ 3, there still was the passage about the 15 Turkish Pz IV included. I still have a copy I made from that passage months ago. So Wolfshanze you are absolutely correct by saying, that this stood in the wikipedia for a longer time.

What about a desert version of that tank?
 
When using the finnish unit with the enclosed kfm why do I not have a turret?

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and the Turkish unit, therefore without checking I would say all the units...
 
Nice.:)

Here is a link to a turkish site, that also confirms these 15 Pz. IV tanks for Turkey. And it includes a picture with the Turkish tank insignas of WW2 on a Turkish T-26. It´s a pitty, that this picture has a bad quality. The picture can be enlarged.

http://images.google.de/imgres?imgu...q=Turkish+tank+1943&gbv=2&hl=de&sa=G&ie=UTF-8
Yeah... I saw that site too... but yes, the pictures aren't good enough to base anything off-of. It's funny, that site refers to the TankHistory.com site as the source (it's actually the same quote from TankHistory.com).



When using the finnish unit with the enclosed kfm why do I not have a turret?

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and the Turkish unit, therefore without checking I would say all the units...
I'm going to take a wild guess and say you probably don't have all the needed files in the same folder and/or you're not referencing the right files in XML. Please double-check the instructions given in this thread and/or in the download link. You must have ALL the files in the same folder, including the KFM files, the AusfF.nif and AusfG.nif files. If you're using more then just the German tank, you'll have to copy the needed files to the 3rd-nation folders to get the model to show properly in-game.

As you may or may not have noticed in the pics above, I did get all five skins to work in-game... so they're good... you're just not doing something right on your end.



These are nice, wolf!

What else are you planning to reskin?
Thanks.

Gonna probably do a few more Pz-IVG later-on (not immediately)... I just wanted to cover these nations, as a few of them didn't really have any tanks for them yet. Mostly, I'm looking around at aircraft and tanks for nations that don't have anything specific for them yet... the major (WWII) powers are pretty-well covered already. A lot of nations used equipment from the major powers, so that's what I'm looking at... such as my previously made units for Sweden, Iraq, Persia, Korea, etc... you can make a lot of minor-nation units simply by reskinning major nation models... that's what I'm looking at.

P.S.
Ideas/requests are welcome... but realize I cannot make new models... I can only reskin existing models we already have. (this was actually a special-case, as the Coyote was kind enough to get me this model to work with... the Pz-IVG was widely exported, but before Coyote's modification to the model, we only had a Pz-IVF1 and Pz-IVH).
 
I'm going to take a wild guess and say you probably don't have all the needed files in the same folder and/or you're not referencing the right files in XML. Please double-check the instructions given in this thread and/or in the download link. You must have ALL the files in the same folder, including the KFM files, the AusfF.nif and AusfG.nif files. If you're using more then just the German tank, you'll have to copy the needed files to the 3rd-nation folders to get the model to show properly in-game.

As you may or may not have noticed in the pics above, I did get all five skins to work in-game... so they're good... you're just not doing something right on your end.

Yeah - my bad - was using the 'F' nif instead of 'G' - damn those adjacent letters of the alphabet!
 
Nice work Wolfshanze, this is a pleasant surprise!
Coming from you, that's quite a compliment... hope you don't mind the "borrowing" of your Pz-IVF1 and converting it into a Pz-IVG!

Speaking of surprises, nice to know you're still alive my old friend!


Glad to see you doing some skins - the gateway to making full-blown models and full units.
Not likely... skins is probably where I will stay forever... I'm the Khan Noonien Singh of unit making... I can only think (and paint) in 2D... I can't see myself making the jump to making 3D models.

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I was going to alter the text too, but I saw the article did indeed mention the 15 tanks to Turkey, whoever did that didn't bother to include the flag though. So Wiki did-indeed mention Turkey's Panzers, there just wasn't the little flag to go along with what was stated in text... ergo, when asioasioasio quoted Wiki, he quoted in error... I assume he looked at the little "used by" flags but didn't read the text... because it did state-so in the text.

Yeah you right i just looked on the flags. I'm glad that now it's fixed.

but realize I cannot make new models... I can only reskin existing models we already have. (this was actually a special-case, as the Coyote was kind enough to get me this model to work with... the Pz-IVG was widely exported, but before Coyote's modification to the model, we only had a Pz-IVF1 and Pz-IVH).

Many people started from reskins and than started to model or edit models :).
Keep up the good work!
 
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