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Painting a captured StuG
Posted by jetmodeler on Sunday, February 28, 2010 9:17 AM

I changed my mind about painting my stug the dark yellow. I decided on painting it to be captured into American service. When the stars were painted on were they painted with rough edges or were they masked off and then painted?

 

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Posted by jason18 on Sunday, February 28, 2010 11:35 AM

Remember that the Red Army also captured the StuGs.  Just another option.

Here's a picture of russian StuG, by Greg Harker, from http://gregharker.com/build.htm

 

Jason

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Posted by RickLawler on Sunday, February 28, 2010 12:06 PM

Here is a reference photo of an American StuG

This 1/48th Russian version I did based upon photos

 

 

Great subject,

Rick

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Posted by richs26 on Monday, March 1, 2010 11:45 PM

Does the one guy look like he has a "Screaming Eagle" 101st  patch on his shoulder?

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Posted by jetmodeler on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 5:05 PM

richs26

Does the one guy look like he has a "Screaming Eagle" 101st  patch on his shoulder?

Thanks for the help. Appreciate it.

richs26 ~ I think it is a "Screaming Eagles" patch. If it's not it highly resembles one.

 

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Posted by richs26 on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 9:18 PM

It could be during the Bulge battle, or towards the end.  It would make an interesting dio with a group of troopers showing these two guys where they need armor support.

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Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 22nd BG B-26, 7-Mile Drome, New Guinea

Minicraft 1/72 B-24D as LB-30, AL-613, "Tough Boy", 28th Composite Group

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Posted by basiltank on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 10:36 PM

I've seena coule of photo's of American used Stug's and is it just me or do the areas around the vision slots seem to be rounded?  I've only ever noticed this on American ones and was wondering why that was, any insights would be great.

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