Stug upgrade ??

[littletankman]

Heres my Hetzer 38t







The Marder uses a 38t chassie to.

[Little dave]

I love the hetzer I had a look at the stug aswell your very good at this how much work is it to make a 38t chassis

[littletankman]

Hi thanks mate It took some time Im of now sorry will just pm you.

Andy

[Dietrich]

Hi Littledave,
Unfortunately the 'Wespe' is based on the Panzer 2 chassis with a 105mm Howitzer....and the 'Marder' came in 3 variants.....
The Marder 1 used the hull from the captured French Lorraine tank , the Marder 2 used the Panzer 2 chassis and the Marder 3 used the excellent Czech 38t chassis.
With the Panzer 3 chassis you are a bit more limited, because it was a good little tank especially with the 50mm gun and then as the STuG 3 armed with the 75mm gun and the 105mm that I mentioned earlier.....AND according to Wikipedia...(which is not always to be trusted)....there was this version.....
> Sturm-Infanteriegeschütz 33B - A close-support, Assault gun. Armed with a 15 cm sIG 33, 24 built. <<<

150mm gun....now THAT is nice I will try and find a picture or two.

P.S. Andy no problem about the mesh scale....my mind is good at useless facts 20mm at 1 /16th scale is 1.25mm so I would have thought that a splatter-guard is probably close...and whos to say that ALL the mesh was 20mm
Alb.

[Dietrich]

Photos of the Sturm-Infanteriegeschütz 33B

Its perhaps a bit 'Boxy' but it has got an MG mounted in the front of the glacis plate next to the main gun

Certainly out of the ordinary with only such a small number made but the gun is NOT open it has an armoured roof as well

Alb

[Little dave]

hi dietrich i did think about this conversion but up and till now i had never actualy seen a real one so was almost wondering if they ever made the field but as you see above they did so yea i may look into this thanks for the info also was there any other mad variants out there that i dont know about thanks dave

[Dietrich]

Hi Little dave,
Not to my knowledge...but this IS pretty exclusive at ONLY 24 built....the colour photos are from a Russian Tank Museum.....If you like scratch-building this looks pretty straight forward.
Alb.

[Little dave]

very true i will consider it but i now want to have a go at a marder 3 as i think its my favorite tracked item and you dont see very many at all so im looking into this and littletankman is sending me sum picks of a 38t hull he has made to help me in the right direction so keep your eyes out you may see one in the future

[littletankman]

And in those famous words " and now for something compleatly different "



Mine clearer , dont think it was put into production tho .

[JayBrd]

Tank Zone lists a Sturm-Infanteriegeschütz 33B conversion.. So I am sure others would carry it also. It would for sure be a cool build for sure.