1⁄35Greetings from the Eastern Front
The representation of the suspension-repair required a lowering of the rear
chassis section in order to show the sinking of the tank due to the missing
assist of two suspension bars. Because of easing the removing of the road
wheels, the track was eased by the maintenance crew and is therefore very saggy.
A suspension arm was completed with a metal tube, which was polished conical at
the end. A second one was drilled out at the front. The same occurred with the
two disassembled road wheels. I furnished the resulting holes with a bit of my
proven car antenna (one should go walking quite more frequently on scrap iron
stations!). The torsion bar was tinkered with a metal tube. I made several cuts
into the end, in order to represent the pinion of the adjustment with the
suspension arm. Further I shifted the support plates for the back-up rollers
behind the tail railing. After approximately 240 hours of work time
(approximately 50 of it had unfortunately furnished no useful results for the
completion of the StuG III, but only an extension of my quite private
vocabulary...), the construction was brought to an end. Now "only" the painting
was left to do: