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Armor/AFV: Axis - WWII
Armor and ground forces of the Axis forces during World War II.
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Finnish StuG IV Ausf. G Sturmi
thenorm
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Posted: Thursday, July 30, 2015 - 04:42 AM UTC
This is my build of Tamiya's Finnish army StuG, finished as Ps.531-19, "Marjatta", the first Finnish StuG to fire on and kill a Russian tank. Built it straight from the box, with the addition of photo etch screens, and painted it with Lifecolor's Finnish tank set. The painting was done by airbrush (still using my basic Aztek A270 if I remember the model name right), and the masking job was quite interesting to do, pleased with the results.








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Posted: Thursday, July 30, 2015 - 05:32 AM UTC
Good job, nice paintwork. Note, it's a STuG III not IV
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Posted: Thursday, July 30, 2015 - 06:21 AM UTC
Woops, typo on that. I'll edit the title if I can.
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Posted: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 - 10:44 PM UTC
Nice!

What did you use to thin the Lifecolour paints?

Cheers,

Christophe
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Posted: Friday, August 07, 2015 - 09:28 AM UTC
Thinned them with water, seemed to work well enough.
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Posted: Friday, August 07, 2015 - 09:50 AM UTC
Looks really good and the story behind the original is also very interesting!

The masking turned out very nice, indeed. Was it done with putty or something else?

Cheers,
Cristian
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Posted: Saturday, August 08, 2015 - 05:12 AM UTC
Tamiya masking tape I cut in-place.
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