Hi Phill,
I just spent 2 1/2 hours going through everything I have about StuG´s. You know what, that is a week point, the Seitenschürzen don´t seem to want to be mentioned let alone the frame work. But I found this which should help, it´s from "Military Modelcraft
International" from June 2010 Volume 14 No.8

Paul

Seriously, get Chris "toadman" Hughes disc at http://www.toadmanstankpictures.com/ on the StuG III Ausf.G

It is jam packed full of all angles of those pictures and is very clear! Better than a book too!







~ Jeff

Worked on the wheels during the weekend & tracks this afternoon.
Hope to get that part over by tomorrow, or until Wednesday.
Too dark to take some pics now.

I have my wheels painted. I've done some assembling on the hull and fighting compartment. I would have had more today, but i did something soooo stupid, that i cannot even think of why i did it!!!


When assembling the gun mount that attaches on the upper fighting compartment, the instructions are showing a round disc on each side (which also shows a bracket, but hard to see with the arrows for the attachment). These attach so the gun can move up and down. My 2 "discs" had a weird bracket on each one. So i start thinking, it must be to eliminate air bubbles or something, and cut them off. When i go to mount it to the bracket that adjusts the side to side traverse, i then realized those brackets are there to hold this together.
Luckily i didn't maul the brackets too bad, and i was able to use a gap filling CA, small cut pieces of sheet styrene and gound up stryrene to rebuild it. I just don't know if the dimensions are close to the original.
I wasted a good hour and a half measring and rebuilding these two parts. But it also fried my brain for any other work that was going to need some thought.

I still don't know why the hell i did that.
Dumb Polack!!

Don't worry Marc.. those Dragon instructions make us do sillymistakes.
We are so focused cleaning parts, catching mistakes they make in the instructions, it happens... a lot.

My Stug IV , that same part you cut, well on mine it simply doesn't hold the gun, I had to use some CA glue and align it so it could fit the gun compartiment.

I usually breath in and out, take a glass of water a get on with something else, another Campaign that's left behind or cleaning wheels & tracks to get my mind off it..

It's here! And it's got an interior!

And I just remembered why I don't like the first steps of Stug and Panzer IV's: Wheels. I might wait for a rainy day, otherwise it'll take a while.

Besides that though, it looks amazing and I'm glad I was able to trade my Panzer IV for it Pictures soon.

-Conor

Conor,

If it came with an interior then you got a great trade i would say!!!

Good luck!!

Mike

So what did you get Conor? A StuG IV? What brand and version? So it has an interior too, huh?

Sounds like you got hooked up perfectly, good going!







~ Jeff

Well finally ordered my last couple of bits for this & will start this weekend on what I can!! Hopefully by then I will be able to upload & show the picture that is the reason for the season!!

Happy birthday to Jeff!! ( today is July the 4th) in my part of the world!'

Cheers Mike

I have done some armour still figuring out a good building procedure. Painted the hull then the wheels will added them with the tracks. Thinking that it will be easier to add and weather them without the superstructure on. I am using a resin replacement mantle with a canvas cover.I did obtain some Ostketten from Accurate Armour in 1/35 for a different project. As for the bigger pictures from photo bucket use the direct HTML toggle.

It doesn't show anything, but it's got a a few interior bits to it. Should be fun

Hi Trevor,
Looking really nice so far!! I have never seen that type of building procedure before will watch with interest & see what I can learn!!
Cheers Mike

I find it far easier to get the tracks on without the chassis on. Weathering I find is much easier without stuff in the way.

Allo fellas .. ok need some photo help here .. i need pics of the inside of the hatches for the STuG F ,,i noticed in a pic Paul threw on here that there is a sliding lock on the inside of the commanders hatch ...i needs pics of this so i can build it .
The hatch looks terrible without it .
Oh the left hand side hatch on the G model would be great too as i believe they are pretty much the same .
Any help here guys would be brilliant


Phill

I made a start to my StuG, I have cleaned up the wheels and they are now ready for some paint.I also got some of the back end done. Really enjoying this build, I like the Dragon smart kits except for the instructions which i find hard to follow sometimes.





G

Gary,

Looking like your of to a great start, hopefully I can kick mine in the guts this weekend!!

Mike

Hi Phill,
it must be pretty earlier in the morning of tomorrow in your part of the world, whats up mate can´t sleep? Well here´s a foto of the loaders hatch from a C/D/E Ausf. I don´t think they changed the device during the production, and I haven´t
got anything else. If its no good well just have to get that foto CD from Toadman like Jeff said.
Cheers Paul


@ Jeff: Happy belated birthday, hope you received so nice things.

Thanks Paul!








~ Jeff

Good morning everyone Hope all had a Happy and Safe 4th
I was able to finish 1 side of my tracks yesterday before the bbq and get some more paint on it So this is what my StuG looked like this morning

Aiming to get the other side of the tracks built today and hopefully primed by tonight

I tried a different approach on this one, tracks & wheels & lower hull first then top hull + fenders. It will be over with the side skirts.

Here goes:







I left some paint on 2 wheels when a brush dropped , I'll have to correct it.
Will now work on the hull & fenders details, hatches & equipment... Stay tuned

Hi Phill,
I´ve been sitting in sun to much, I forgot that I am using parts from the lion roar set, here is what you need.


@ John: that StuG IV is looking good. Are the tracks vinyl
or single links?

@ Sal: looking good, I hope to catch up with you on Saturday
thats if I get primer on tomorrow.
Paul.

Paul I'm doing the Italeri's kit so vinyl tracks.

Equipment & hull details are next on the menu...

Here's my lame update.
Wheels assembled, painted and have a wash on them Suspension is mounted on hull. Hull and fighting compartment is not glued. And i have a jig made for the Magic Tracks. Let's see if i can keep these things straight as i assemble them.

Before I start my Stug, anyone have any advice for getting track sag when using DS tracks? I thought they would be a bit better than standard rubber ones, but I'm kinda disappointed

Any suggestions?

-Conor

Paul ,, Thanks a heap mate ,those two pics really helped out and the last pic is prefect you will see the results probably later today .

Gary ... Coming along nicely bud ..slowly but surely

Sal ... Also moving along very nicely ,,your whopped Gary's ass bigtime but being a Jedi he'll bounce back

John ... Nice to see the STuG IV looking like one now ,,we all make cock ups mate ..trust me ..i'm a pro at it

Marc ... Doing it the right way and looking clean dude ..should be real sweet when its done

Phill