Turning to the axis side for a while now.Not a bad kit. I did shorten the tracks by 2 links-better yet aftermarket tracks would be the best bet. tamiya tools and a Dragon machine gun. Crosses from my spares box-the kit's broke up.

Nice one. The marking looks quite clean as if you put them after the weathering?

Also you saided you removed two links from the tracks. They look like the rubber band type. How did you do this?

Thanks for sharing.

Nope-the markings were added before the weathering. The rubber band tracks have pins and holes in 4 track segments. I simply removed the outer 2 on both ends.

Mike

nice job Mike i love the camo and weathering, i recently built the pak version and did the same thing on the tracks, i intend to build this one and the command version at some point, on the pak model the interior had to be trimmed to fit in some places was this the same?.

Thanks Ron,

Probably the same part. F26 the portion that goes behind the ready ammo box needed to be trimmed off. Also the forward section of the upper works were wide but the rear was a good fit to the hull. I had to tape the front squeezed together to mate with the hull till the cement dried.

Mike

I have this vehicle in my stash as well. After much trying I finally found some information about its use. There were only 24 vehicles produced, and all served with the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy in 1944.

Concord Publications "German Self Propelled Guns" CPC 7022 has a single photo of one with green blotches over dark yellow.

Ther is a picture on the cover of :
21 Panzer Division: Normandy, Tarnopol, Arnhem (Hardcover)
by JeanClaude Perrigault (Author)
with the sister vehicle (Marder I) in the same green blotch pattern for the period of the Normandy Invasion.

Anyone have found anymore information on it? I know one example still exists at the Saumer Tank Museum.

Mike