Photos of my Marder III

Hi Pieter,

Thank you for the information. It was very helpful. The site you linked to was very interesting. Looks like a lot of good information can be found there!! I bookmarked that for future reference.

I also saw (after I posted earlier) that FineScale has a workbench review of the Marder III - the same kit. The article had some good information about the kit itself. Something I thought interesting was this one section:

Tamiya also simplified the seat-back mounts. The seats on the actual Marder are designed to be folded out of the way when the gun is manned. The seat backs slide into tubular sockets on the seats or the rear basket, depending on their configuration. Tamiya molded the sockets onto the seat backs, which means no matter where one poses them, the alternate sockets will be missing. I replicated a set from thin brass tubing. I built one seat folded and one unfolded.

Looking at the kit - it looked permanent. Reading this makes sense. They'd move them out of the way when manning the gun. I guess this is just another example of how putting a bit of time into researching the real deal goes a long way into making kits more realistic.

Hey Recon,

Here is answer to your questions.

For the rounds it could carry and how many crew memebers check this site out.
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/html/germany/marder.html

Your other question about moving the gun, THe gunner had some control with the left and right , sometimes the driver would have to move a little to get the right killing shot.

HTH

very nice Marader III, You attention to detail is great. Keep up the good work sir

Your Marder III is awesome. Nice photographs too.

The detailing is very nice. Besides the figures and other things for the diorama, did you have to add anything that wasn't in the original kit or is everything there pretty much straight out of the kit?

Before I was in the military, I used to look at pictures of stuff, but never really paid attention to certain details - like storage areas for gear, equipment, ammo, etc. Also, crew compartments, etc. So I really never really gave it much thought to where the ammunition on something like this would be stored. It's interesting how they made use of the free space around the gun. It would appear that it may have been a bit awkward for the people loading the gun, giving the storage location, the chair and the length of the round. I'm sure it worked out just fine though. Do you know how many rounds they could store? How many people were assigned to the Marder III?

Another question I have, do you know if the gun crew could make minor adjustments to the left and right or did they have to rely entirely on the driver?

Also, I always wondered why they didn't provide more protection along the sides of these vehicles for the gun crews. Was it a matter of just getting this into production - reducing production time?

NICE! I like the tank, keep it up!!!!!

Looks really nice. Good work!
Take Care,
Pat