I just started work on the Bronco Stug III ausf E kit and noticed the road wheels have the 6 welds missing on each wheel,I thought of gluing small pieces of stretched sprue but they will be very fiddly to do.
Anyone come across an easier fix?


Cheers
Karl

White glue out of a micro-tip?
Like piping icing on a tiny...tiny cake!

Squadron putty or Bondo. Still tedious, but I don't think you can avoid that. I'm not sure white glue will give the effect you are looking for.

That's the approach I'd follow but you can make life a little easier by heat forming thin rod or stretched sprue round a circular rod of the appropriate diameter in hot water. Then slice the resulting spiral into rings and chop it up into short lengths - I'd make up a simple jig to get the lengths all the same though.

There probably aren't any tedium-free options so it's about limiting the number of things to go wrong so that you maintain consistency, as irregular ones will really stand out.

Yes White glue sounds good,I shall give it ago tomorrow.
Thanks lads

Yes. SKIP Bronco's crappy road wheels and put a set of Dragon Smart-Kit wheels on from any of D's modern Pz III or StuG III kits. That would be my #1 choice!

Frankly, that bit about the crappy wheels is the reason I'm staying away from Bronco's StuG III kits - save that I really want to build that DAK StuG III D! And I'll swap in one of the extra Dragon wheel sets that I have to cover that gaff.

But the "better" fix if you DO use the Bronco wheels is the stretched sprue - it's a small raised weld-bead that you are making, and while fiddly, adding these on is actually pretty quick and easy (and you only need to dress the outer road wheels) - just cut 6 tiny lengths of thin stretched sprue per wheel, and lay them into little pools of thin cement in the correct positions. Use your knife tip to pattern the softening sprue into a weld. It will look GREAT. I know, as I've done this to "update" wheels in older Dragon Pz III kits (which also lack those welds, as well as lacking the 6 pegs which join the wheels of a pair... and also lack the drilled-out tubes (those "pegs" are tubes)... It doesn't take much time to do up all those wheels once you get cranking!

This fixes the lacking welds up A-OK.

Cheers! Bob

I went with the stretched sprue method,only took about an hour to do all 12 wheels,just used extra thin and a cocktail stick to push the pieces in place.
Thanks for all your advise.