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Armor and ground forces of the Axis forces during World War II.
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StuG III interior/driver's compartment kit
panzerconor
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Massachusetts, United States
Joined: February 08, 2012
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Posted: Saturday, April 26, 2014 - 04:34 PM UTC
I'm modelling Dragon's StuG III Ausf G (6365), and it'll have most of it's hatches open. The kit comes with a good interior around the gun, but lacks anything for the drivers compartment. The idea is that the StuG took a hit through the front armor plate and into the transmission, so I'll be showing that through one of the blown open hatches, and the open driver's hatch. I bought a StuG III transmission from Tiger Werke at AMPS, but it didn't occur to me that I'd need a full interior kit if I wanted to model those specific parts.

But I digress. Anyone know of a good after market kit for dragon StuG's? Preferably just the transmission & driver's compartment, but I'm almost positive there's no kit of those specific spots. The only one I could find was Jaguar's, and it'll cost me more for that than the actual kit, and I don't need nearly half of it. There's a CMK kit of exactly what I'm looking for though, however it's for the Tamiya kit. Anyone have an idea of how it would do in Dragon's?

-Conor

p.s. if anyone has the parts necessary and is willing to part with them shoot me a PM
FlorinM
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Bucuresti, Romania
Joined: August 01, 2011
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Posted: Saturday, April 26, 2014 - 05:47 PM UTC
The Aires 3010 Driver's compartment and transmission for StuG IIIG looks decent enough.

It includes resin, copper wire of three different thicknesses


...and PE with film


The set has torsion bars included, but the Dragon ones are better.
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