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Something to consider is the length of the 2 pins..In Patrice's wood handled model and Bender's the pins are very short. In the first photo of this thread the 3 pins on the brass models to the left are very long.
My theory is that the longer the pin the better chance of being fake.
The only one of these I had was a brass type of the long steel pin variety and it broke immediately any pressure was applied.
The pins, as small a diameter as they are need to be short to survive.
The longer the pin the more fragile. The Germans knew better than to make long pins....

One other point I want to make about German thinking. German Tanks in WW2 are a prime example. They produced a veritable Disneyland of Tank models. Big ones little ones on and on. You could fill a book with the many models of German armored vehicles.
The Soviets built the wide tracked , for mud, low slung, powerful T34 and it left battlefields littered with Tigers and Panthers.
One kind of Tank solved many of the Soviets logistic parts problems. The Germans could not keep spare parts in inventory for so many models...

Jerry Burney