1941 StuG III Ausf B

PainlessWolf · Post by **PainlessWolf** » Sat Sep 26, 2015 12:16 am

Alpha,
I did a quick bit of research and the US Army still uses the collapsible canvas bucket. That or plastic 5 gallon jerry cans for water. Otherwise, the humble metal bucket still looks pretty much the same. Some few of them have a molded or stamped spillway made onto them now.
regards,
Painless

ALPHA · Post by **ALPHA** » Sat Sep 26, 2015 12:38 am

PainlessWolf wrote:Alpha,
I did a quick bit of research and the US Army still uses the collapsible canvas bucket. That or plastic 5 gallon jerry cans for water. Otherwise, the humble metal bucket still looks pretty much the same. Some few of them have a molded or stamped spillway made onto them now.
regards,
Painless

Got the same results Painless....thought they might have improved the design lol....thought they might have gone to those oval "milk can" type pales

ALPHA

PainlessWolf · Post by **PainlessWolf** » Sat Sep 26, 2015 3:46 am

One detail set painted and weathered. I should be able to get it mounted on the StuG this weekend. Next up, the radios. ( and bucket ;o) Pictures:

PainlessWolf · Post by **PainlessWolf** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:32 pm

Was out meandering around a favorite flea market yesterday before a local meetup and found this fellow. He should work on the StuG as a crewman as soon as I change his piping from pink to orange. Pictures:

Ad Lav · Post by **Ad Lav** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:50 pm

Nice crew member!

Get some paint on it painless

PainlessWolf · Post by **PainlessWolf** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:24 am

Ad Lav, Definitely, in good time. Today, I wanted to pursue how to make the left over machine gun circuit and led useful. I had originally thought to use the bipod mounted MG34 and the box of ammo and goodies for this but the recoil and flash unit really does take up 90% of the roof. I didn't want to try to drill through the mechanism. There just aren't that many spots to safely bother on it. Looking around the vehicle, I noticed the large view slot and thought that it might be easy for a crewman to stick the business end of an MP40 out of it and say hello to attacking infantry. There were two along with spare magazines and stick grenades stowed right to hand on this version of the StuG (which did not have a factory installed MG like later versions). Pictures: