Tamiya Stug finished a little while back. Straight out of the box except for aerials and some fender destruction. As usual brush painted with GW acrylics and weathered with Mig and homemade powders ....

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Brent







Added a bonus wip from the next 48th project on my bench.

Those are nice kits and you've done a great job. One thing you might want to consider: the loader's MG shield had no mechanism for standing upright on its own. If the loader wanted it up, he'd lock it into an upright position with a hook and tab on the front hatch. If it was buttoned up, the shield would lie flat. HTH

Hi Roy, yeah ... the shame is I know, like I did in the second wip kits. The customer wanted closed hatches and raised shield in the first one because it looked better .... lol, it is only a wargaming piece after all

I think you may have put a little too much track sag on your later model Stug (the one with Saukopf mantlet).

Very good works. I really like the concrete armor and stowage arrangements

Nice wheathering there' .. do you always paint your kits fully assembled including the stowage?(looking at your work in progress)

Very nice, I like that you got such impressive results from brush painting!

Jay Ar, lots of people paint a fully completed model with exceptions for open hatches (due to different colors).

Excellent work. I didn't realize this was 1/48th scale.

Thnx for the comments guys, and yeah Jay Ar, for 1/48th and smaller, I paint with tracks and stowage on. A few small/fragile bits, hatches etc, might be left off so the handling doesn't break them.

I've recently started 1/35th modelling and for that I attach plastic indy tracks and leave metal workables as removeable while painting ....