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This is indeed an impressive build, more so as it seems to be cnc cut aluminium. I have 1 question, how did you manage to stick it together

ColemanCollector wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 8:25 pm My fave Stug since building the 1/48 Bandai Stug III ausf d kit many decades ago. Angular, low slung and the Stump--what's not to like?!
That aluminum kit is crazy! What a great buy.
Oh Mr. Inkor! You wouldn't have time in your busy schedule for such a 3d printer conversion kit for the HL StugIII wouldya?

Mike.

Inkor probably won't build the Stug in any form. He has a bunch of people bugging him for it and he won't build it. Might be out of spite, but it's mostly because he's said he wouldn't be able to use HL gearboxes which doesn't make a lot of sense to me since HL uses them. I guess he built his Pz.Kpfw. III (M) with the GA25 gearboxes.

Well, the German colleague builder only made a limited number of these kits.
He used to have the Ausf A-B and C-D.
These days he doesn’t make any kit of whatever Panzer anymore.
Indeed, he would have been able to sell dozens of ‘m I guess..
I choosed for Ausf A, because I liked the sprocketwheels with their 8 holes.
A 3D printed set of covers was included in the kit but I found metal covers on eBay as you can see in my pics.
The covers on the idlerwheels are the 3D printed ones out of the kit.

How I keep sticking the aluminum together?
That’s what I asked him before I ordered the sets from him.
So he sold me a tube with this special glue for metal parts, and I must say it works very well.
Takes about 24 hours to harden out and after that you’re good to go.

It is:
Metall + Werstatt spezial Kleber from bocoll.
Never heard of it but it does what it is meant for.
There is enough in the tube for my metal JagdPanzer IV kit too!

This is the kit from the same guy, I bought to build the JagdPanzer IV.
I choosed for the L48 main gun, because I thought the longer barrel could cause some issues during outdoor runs because of the length of the entire vehicle.

And this is what it should look like in the end.
But I will start a thread about this build too.
You might have noticed, the one in the pic below, has the 2 metal roadwheels at the front, necessary for the weight of the long barrel.
But as I choosed the short barrel version, like the one in the pic below, those metal roadwheels were not needed so I will build it with all the rubber mounted roadwheels.
And this the one with the long barrel.

The crewmen received the red linings on their collars.
And I lowered them slightly more.
Couldn‘t go any lower because the hatches cannot go more down in their opened position.
So be it.

Next I started with the headlight covers.
3D printed, came with the set.
Had to cut m in shape to fit the glacis plate

There were some gaps beside the headlights in the aluminum cover of the glacis plate. Had to fill these up with alu made of leftovers from the set Looks a bit better now!
Put some old P3 headlight on underneath the covers.

On the left track there was a spot where one tracklink did not go over the teeth of the sprocketwheel.
So the track had to come off and I noticed a burr on the tracklink.
Took it off and everything runs nice and smooth again!
While I had the tracks off I tried the small tracks just to see the difference.
Hmm….I do like both versions to be honest!
I also added the Notek and one small headlight
And I had a Scherenfernrohr for the commander

As mentioned before in this thread, made the grills out of a kitchen sieve and covered it with cutouts from a plastic card.