Great! Thanks!

@Fabian;

Thanks for that info! So... are you planning on un-doing what look like some weld-lines around that box, now that you have clearly updated the look to show the screws?

Bob

Thanks John for the extension!

Maybe I will drag out my 30% started StuG carcass and finish it now? It sure would be nice to have at east ONE StuG ribbon.






Jeff

Thanks John!!!

Regards from the south

Alvaro

Close to calling this thing done. Couple tweaks and a little dirt on the tracks should do it. Been fun but I have a Gloster Javelin screaming to be built , then I'll finish up my Flakpanzer IV.

Chris... this is the best looking StuG I have ever seen. Very nice, well done buddy!


I wish ALL my German vehicles turned out like this.





Jeff

Thanks much for the compliment. It turned out OK. Looking at the pics I have a list of things to finish: pull the road wheels and paint the rubber on the inside, paint the bakelite handles of the wirecutter, light dirt/dust on the tracks and some chipping on the shield frames.

Fertig!





Admin: I have tried multiple times to load one, two or three of these images into the campaign gallery and it is not allowing me to do so. If you can help it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Ausgezeichnet!

I am declaring myself finished.









And just to get a sense of scale:



Had a great time building and seeing all of the other builds in this thread. As always, the looming deadline did wonders to motivate me into finishing! These Tamiya 1/48 scale kits are a lot of fun.

As always, comments/criticisms/suggestions/hey buddy you missed somethings are always welcomed.

Super nice. Love the look of early versions of the StuG.

Yes! Extremely nice work there Brendan. I like the 'look' of the Early StuGs as well.



Jeff

Hi, I´m going to begin this campaign with the Tamiya Sturmg IV,

Daniel, you DO realize this Campaign ends at the end of this month?




Jeff

[quote]Hi, I´m going to begin this campaign with the Tamiya Sturmg IV,

Hi Daniel,

Me to!


As it's no dificult built after a few hours spend




Next priming

I'm sorry, but we need more "in progress build" pics than just a start and then ready for primer pictures Jan.

Your StuG looks great but those are the rules.






Jeff

Hi Jeff,

Sorry I got carried away by seeing a fellow modeller building the same model and merely attempting to stimulate the built so he could achieve making it to the finish line with not so many day's left.

Your absolutely right there should be more progress pictures but the truth is that this old Tamiya Stug is a very easy built like almost all Tamiya products and not as some Dragon products will take days, this is really if OOB merely a few hours including a coffee break. Due to the late hour of the day I did not add more pictures so here goes. And more pictures will follow on the progress

The kit is OOB with no aftermarket stuff to make it a bit realistic I changed some small simple things as the fender springs and the engine compartment handles



The manlet got some Tamiya putty so it looked like a molded one and I added a mold number (I think it needs one more digit)


As I could not find any good reference pictures for this particular type I made from flattened copper wire some Tow cable supports however the once I made did not look OK so I cut them to a more acceptable dimensions and removed the first ones.


The tow cable is made also from copper wire and as this has my first attempted to make them it looked acceptable to me


Biggest change is the are the "schürze" as the originals in the box are a bit thick,. So I made these from some plastic card using the original handles that are not accurate but will do I guess,..


No priming yet, im thinking off adding ome extra's and atempting to give the tracks a more realistic look

Hi Jeff, I´ll try!!!!

I´m going to give some detail to the interior,

Some more photos of the interior,

Some more photos,

Daniel: Nice effort with the interior so far.

I´ve finally came around painting the kit. I already knew the Dragons effort on the Stug A was bad, but Eduards wasn´t much better, to be honest. Missing parts, wrong and strangely sized assemblys... Well, I´m now finally past that stage.

Going on with the interior,

Chris and Brendan - Sweet builds guys! Didn't know Tamiya made a 1/48 StuG.III Ausf.A, looks like a great kit.

Jan - Nice scratch work, really like the fender springs.

Daniel - Impressive scratch work, you did a beautiful job with the gun breech (shield?).

Fabian - You're StuG looks great, I tried using an Eduard PE set on my last StuG build and lots of fit issues. The pre-shading looks good too.

I am going to try and finish my early Stug IV. I have most of the major components dry fitted together, but lots of details to work on. I did realize too late that the rain gurad above the driver's periscopes are a latter development, but I am going to pretend that it was a field modification.



I don't have a warm painting location with good air circulation, so I'm going to try MIG and Vallejo acrylics. Past attempts with acrylics have clogged my poor Iwata so I am going to use a Paasche H and hope for an easier time.

-Nate