Hi. sorry to hear of the weather out there. I'm late to the turret less GB. I'm looking at your StuG. Beautiful BTW. I was wondering what you did for the zimmerit? Do it yourself or is it resin? Thanks

Eric 

Agreed -- marvelous work! I'm a big fan of the StuG III, and would love to do a waffle-zimmed version.

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Excellent work on the stug!!!  Looks great

Hey DF!  Looking GREAT!   You are almost there... I will be there at the finish line when you cross it.  LOL!  Better late than never... looks like you are about 90% completed except for tools and some naked parts to be painted.

I know this g.b. is officially over I just thought I should post my continued work here.Changed the schurzen and brackets out for a different style and started to add some smaller bits.












I guess I would encourage any other members who did not make the deadline to update or post finished pics. Thanks Greg "detailfreak" Rowley

Gentlemen,

I am still around, been following the builds just didn't post. The builds look great, love the stug.

Deafpanzer, enjoy Sweden...you wan't be disapointed

Same here... my vacation starts in two days for two weeks.  I am taking my family to Denmark and Sweden.  I will let y'all know if hot Swedish ladies is a myth or not.  Will be back after August 1st...

ok, Ill start re-building and posting pics once I get back from vacation, cheers all

Yup, he dun RUNOFFT'd.Ai'nt seen um afterthen.got my vote on the extension. Seeing how we may be the majority we may rule!

JMart, thank you very much!  DF started it all with the historical pics posting... he got me addicted!  I don't see any problem if you want to extend the deadline til end of July. Our GB moderator has mysteriously disappeared.  Kidding... he went to start another GB before this GB ended.  I'd love to see your Stug IV completed! 

Finally catching up with this GB

Detailfreak & Deafpanzer (andy) – Those Stugs look great; was a thrill to catch up with the GB and read the WIPs of both Stugs. Love the historical pics too! Your builds and pics are worthy of a magazine feature. Thanks for sharing such great work!

I never got back to my own Stug IV, although I had it all planned… life, family, health issues, you all know the drill… do we have an official extension? I still want to finish mine, but will take until end of July probably. Anyone else want to grovel, beg and offer free beer to the GB host to extend the deadline to July 30^th? Lol

Cheers all

Thanks DF!  I did some research online and learned a great deal about the uniforms for StuG crew.  They did wear black uniforms during pre-war but it was changed when StuGs were assigned to artillery and infantry support instead of panzer so they stopped wearing black uniforms from there.  And what's interesting is that StuG crew didn't want to wear black uniforms because they are treated as high prized targets by snipers when they have to get out of their StuGs to do some scouting often.  I will use this picture... german field grey with dark green collars and red pipings. 

Good suggestion about bringing this up in the Figures forum... I will go there before I start painting my figures tonight.  You have a great weekend buddy!

Hey Deafpanzer,I've been lurking about.If I may make a suggestion,browse through the figures forum and check it out. As a matter of fact Manstiens revenge posted a great bunch of pics over there. Seeing that these figs you are using are early war they could very likely be wearing the black panzer uniform,or a combination.They also had a gren work uniform as well as coveralls.let me dig around a bit to see what I can find.

Detailfreak- Long time no talk... I have started working on two figures for my StuG.  I wanted to make sure I am doing this right... originally I was planning to paint the uniforms black but realized it is reserved for panzer crews only, correct?  Looking thru my reference books, they seems to be wearing dark grey uniforms.  Are those the exact same color as German fieldgray?  If it was you, which paint would you have used for the uniforms?  Thanks again...

You have this kit... I want to match those for my figures.

Nine or eleven


These are just a couple of the figure sets I like.
The panzer crew by miniart is another as well as Tristars spg crew 1 and 2

Beautiful!  Want to trade Stugs?  I like your figure... who makes it?  I'd like to use it for my future Stug build.  Detailfreak, tell us how many models are you working right now?  I have seen you in other GBs and armor recently... looks like you are building 3-4 kits at a time. LOL

For next two weeks I will focus on figures for the Stug and 234/1 that I built for 8X8 GB earlier.  Then I will start the Panzer 1 Ausf A in August for Battle of Norway GB with Huxy as moderator.  Feel free to join us there...

Happy July 4th buddy! 

I continue to work my way to finshing this build as well as a couple others that I started at the same time as the stug. The front hull plates were re-installed.
And heres a shot of the stug B I was working on at the same time. I may have to use the same decals for the stug abtielung as Deafpanzer and a different vehicle number. I shall continue to plug away until I am finished,and will continue to post progress pics here.

Well ok,heres the last of the pics of the yet to be completed stug. The brass catcher is scratchbuilt from tissue,the ammo bin from plastic card,the steering levers are copper phone wire with a touch of insulation left on for the handgrips.As this is my fourth or fifth stug smart kit I can tell anyone who is planning to build one to shorten the recoil guard. And that installing the upper fighting compartment with the gun glued in place may cause one to pull his hair out. Read any and all reviews you find!




Oh, Deafpanzer I really do'nt see any thing wrong with the stug,looks good to me. All you need now is vehicle #'s 11,12,14,15, is what the germans called a zug/platoon. See you all at the next one.

Awwww, I wanna workshop like that!!!!

Seriously, DP, while there's the artist in us that will always want to fiddle with the fine details until they are perfect, I would have to say that this build is very high quality and passes muster in ever way. It's realistic, the cumulative effect 'suspends disbelief" in the viewer, and that's the object of all simulation. You've built an absolute winner!

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Here's my update... I didn't get the new camera because I had to work late yesterday but managed to get a new chair as a birthday gift from my parents for my workspace I built last spring.  You won't believe how comfortable it is... it was on sale for only $109 at Office Max down from $179.  Sale expires next week I think...  

Here's my Stug... I did my best to correct my mistake but it didn't go away completely.  I think I applied too much MIG weathering pigment.  Hope you can tell me why... if you can look closely at front and back top parts of the hull. 

I need to correct the cable to make it laying down against the fender behind the tool box.  Just noticed this...

Used old fashioned pencil on the edges, hinges and corners of the Stug especially the tracks.  I think I need to do little more...

Sorry about the poor quality picture for this... I can't wait to get a new camera over the weekend.  Was still using my BlackBerry...

Too much rust on the mufflers or is it just right?

Closer shot of the tools... I know guys are crazy about tools!   Small amount of rust weathering pigment was applied to some tools such as cable and cable holders, etc.

Those are two figures I plan to work for next 2-3 weeks before my trip to Denmark & Sweden.  I wanted to make sure the colors of uniforms are accurate for this?  Not black uniforms I always thought in early stage of war against the Russians during the invasion in 1942. 

Again, thank you for looking and support!  I will take and post better pictures with the new camera.  Happy July 4th! 

LOL!  Same goes for me... I am about 99% completed with my Stug B then I made a BIG mistake last night and I am afraid it ruined my previous weathering pigment work using MIG Fading Panzer Grey as you have seen.  Like I said I am still learning.  I believe I should have applied some kind of protective coating to protect such as dull or flat coat before I apply another coat of MIG weathering pigment.  Have you done that before? If so, what should I have used? 

I spent 2-3 hours trying to fix my mistake... I hope to post the pictures tonight with my new camera.  I am going to buy one at Best Buy after work... I am thinking about getting Canon PowerShot 14.1 Megapixel Digital Camera for $229.  It has white balance controls which seems to be very critical for you guys while taking pictures of the models.

Is this GB now over?

Had signed up at the beginning but never got around to cutting sprue. Was going to do the M40-75 this weekend during a local 6 hour build.

If it is no problem. Just wanted to ask. Been looking back through the posts and saw some really awesome work!!! Great work guys.

See ya

Scott

I'm gonna have to go that route too with my second build -- list my Italeri Jagdpanzer IV L/70 as DNF. Durn, that's two GBs it didn't get finished for! Still, I got my badge for the STRV 103B earlier in the year.

Cheers, and thanks for the fun,

Mike/TB379

And now,the end is near,and though I face the final curtain.I've lived a life thats full with each and every highway,and much,much more than this,I did it my way. HaHaHa. I think that's about how Sid Viscous of the SEX PISTOLS put it into perspective.well as time runs out I'm still a few hrs away from finishing. DNF me ASAP.

Thats the one on Sturmartillerie I have. Got to get that other one. You'll make  it to the finish line just like I will. we'll have to update every few hours or so tommorrow.

HOT DAMN!  I am loving your work, DF!  This explains why it took you forever to build this kit with so many details going on.  No wonder you came up with the profile name.  Looks like you may finish the race before I do!  My family from NY and Canada are still here but they all leave in the morning.  I am hoping that I can do some touch-up painting tonight and apply more MIG weathering pigment before I call it done. 

My another playboy issue has arrived yesterday...

 You will be hearing from me tomorrow or I'd be voted off the tribe.

As usual I seem to be draggin this out right to the end! Have managed to complete some interior work and will button this one up soon. Got the fenders attached to the upper casement. Need to do some touch-up painting in the engine compartment. Install the drivers seat,gunners seat. Put some OVM on the fenders.

Hey Iraqiwildman!  Yup, I remember you bought Tamiya Stug III after I recommended because it was readily available at Hobby Lobby.  You made the right choice especially that the kit is not one of those OLD Tamiya kits.  I hope you have been enjoying it... easy and fun at my end but the building part was too short for me as I like kits with hundreds of parts. LOL

I painted the interior first... MM Panzer Buff but no details yet until I painted the exterior using MM Panzer Grey.  Used lots of tapes (Frog tape is the best... thanks to Indy) to protect the interior before you attack the exterior.  Then I did the detail painting for both interior and exterior at the same time because often I used same paint.  Hope this helps...

Wildman,I always use aa iron oxide ,or something close to it colored primer.The actual color of the primer is something of a hull red,the paint I prefer to use is Krylon indoor/outdoor primer,the color is called ruddy brown.I brush paint all of my projects after the priming stage so in my case it doesn't really matter when I paint/or what order of assembly I paint at. Hope this sheds a little light on your question.