Asiatam StuG IV conversion kit...
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:33 pm
While I'm waiting for bits to take my Tamiya Pz IV project further, I still have the old Asiatam rolling Pz IV hull lurking in my back room. Every time I walk past it, it somehow looks peeved and disgruntled. Well, that's how I felt when I had to saw almost a centimetre off its alloy rear end, and rework all the fittings that arrived with it. I have a Heng Long airsoft upper for it, and it was my intention to use that somewhere in the not-so-distant future.
But the lustre left that project long ago until, that is, I saw this thread on RCU today:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-tank ... build.html
It's a detailed thread, and well worth perusing if you have nothing better to do.
For me, though, it offered a departure from my normal turreted tank direction. So....I went and ordered the kit from Asiatam. Yes..I must be a glutton for punishment, considering my past experience with Mr Tams' Pz IV product, and considering the pasting I gave the firm too.
In any event, on the face of it..it doesn't look as though I'll need to rejig the whole thing, and it's 90% plastic anyway...should any mods be needed. It looks from the search feature here that the StuG IV had been largely overlooked, as all references seem to point to the StuG 111 being the favourite model, and so a build might inspire others. Maybe not. Christmas is looming large on the horizon, and bank balances are probably tipping into the red already
https://www.asiatam.de/product_info.php ... ihj0slk244
But the lustre left that project long ago until, that is, I saw this thread on RCU today:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-tank ... build.html
It's a detailed thread, and well worth perusing if you have nothing better to do.
For me, though, it offered a departure from my normal turreted tank direction. So....I went and ordered the kit from Asiatam. Yes..I must be a glutton for punishment, considering my past experience with Mr Tams' Pz IV product, and considering the pasting I gave the firm too.
In any event, on the face of it..it doesn't look as though I'll need to rejig the whole thing, and it's 90% plastic anyway...should any mods be needed. It looks from the search feature here that the StuG IV had been largely overlooked, as all references seem to point to the StuG 111 being the favourite model, and so a build might inspire others. Maybe not. Christmas is looming large on the horizon, and bank balances are probably tipping into the red already
https://www.asiatam.de/product_info.php ... ihj0slk244