Stug III Ausf.G

[littletankman]

Hi Just some more attempts at getting a decent photo . I still looks better to the eye . But you can get the idea .







Ive decided not to add the extra concrete armour to this project.

[grim_marmazet]

The waffle pattern looks really good mate! It's definitely the most interesting zimmerit design. The schurzen mounts look really good, very realistic!
Cheers,
Rik

[littletankman]

Hi Rik thanks mate . More picts to come . I will say Ive tryed this design before and it failed . But the tool I made to do this want to difficult to make.

Andy

[littletankman]

Hi Ive done some more of the Waffle zimmerit and now decided to add the concrete armour to the front of the tank , as most Ive seen have it . Some have zimmerit over the top others not . I decided to go with zimmerit over the top .


concreter add on armour added and zimmerited over .






close up of my attempt waffle zimmerit .

I did think afterwoulds can you get oppening front hatches

[Plastic scouser]

Nice job on the zim Andy, I told you the tool looked easy to make

Cheers Ian

[littletankman]

Thanks Ian . Yer It wasnt that much of a job to make it . The site I looked on had sold out .

Thanks Andy

[littletankman]

Hi Ive added the Asiatam metal suspension today with mixed results ( had a couple of broken wheels , the suspensions fine ) . Ive got the metal return rollers and idlers on the way just need the drive sprockets . Ive also been playing with the exhausts trying to get them so they smoke correctly . And whilst I was working on this I added the mesh to the underside of the rear section. The zimmerit has been done on the rear and rear sides . More photos soon,.

Littletankman

[xrad]

By broken wheels, do you mean seperated halves? They are just pressed together and I use a tiny drop of CA to hold them together. BUT, i did notice that the rubber on the return rollers is usually cracked and not as good shape as the rubber on the road wheels.

[littletankman]

Hi Xrad . Yer the stock HL road wheels the two halves were glued Its all sorted now Ive fitted the Asiatam metal suspension . Im out of work so wont be getting the Asiatam tub . I have the Tiger one and they are very good.

Andy

[littletankman]

Hi I have altered the rear exhausts so hopefully they will smoke correctly . Its not the way I wanted as it has a pipe out side of the exhaust unit were the smoke will feed into the exhaust . But it will be covered . I just sealed the exhausrt unit removed the moulded exhaust pipes and replaced them with a piece of bent styrene pipe . I drilled a hole into the bottom two out side corners of the exhaust unit for these pipes to fit into. The exhasust unit was glued and sealed to the rear pannel . I then drilled two holes into the top and put two halfs of a pipe then Im going to put a top piece on . The smoke pipes will feed through the normal holes into the exhaust unit and hopefully out of the exhaust pipes . However I havent got a RX18 board so I cant test it just yet . But its not a big job to alter it.



metal Asiatam suspension , metal sprockets (thanks Dave ) and metal return rollers (thanks Steve ).


Inside view of modded exhausts , note the tops of the little half pipes still needs caping. I might add some sort of angle piece in the top so the smoke goes downwards better ?


outside view of exhaust pipes .

Andy