Alpha,
Good Morning and thanks for the head's up on the gearbox clearance issues using the Taigen lower. I need to go look and see how they fixed that on their metal StuG III. Height reduced gearboxes or different mount plate? I'll have to look. Taigen can't lower the standard boxes too much, the mount plate would bind up the front torsion bars. The stepped torsion bars and suspension on the Taigen and Mato would be something more than I would want to try to rectify. That alone may have me using the Taigen 'Pro' series StuG III with the HL lower just to have that corrected. The gearbox clearance would be a bonus as you say, using the HL lower.
regards,
Painless
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Re: 1941 StuG III Ausf B
Alpha,
I did some looking around and the StuG\Panzer lower hull gear mount plates have a recess made into them now for the gearbox to set into . Hopefully this would resolve the lack of clearance? I'll be very interested to see your mockup. Tonight, I got a lot of the plastic cutting out of the way. I started out with the scribing blade and made cuts deep enough to guide my exacto saw and finished up with that. A few swipes of the file and the casemate section of the upper is ready to accept the resin. I did not remove the front upper hull plastic yet because I want to see how it will mount up with the lower hull. The resin piece looked a little shorter front to back and if I have to place it, I want some excess plastic left to cut into to do so. Pictures:
I did some looking around and the StuG\Panzer lower hull gear mount plates have a recess made into them now for the gearbox to set into . Hopefully this would resolve the lack of clearance? I'll be very interested to see your mockup. Tonight, I got a lot of the plastic cutting out of the way. I started out with the scribing blade and made cuts deep enough to guide my exacto saw and finished up with that. A few swipes of the file and the casemate section of the upper is ready to accept the resin. I did not remove the front upper hull plastic yet because I want to see how it will mount up with the lower hull. The resin piece looked a little shorter front to back and if I have to place it, I want some excess plastic left to cut into to do so. Pictures:
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- The resin hatch piece surround seems a little short. I will not cut and add it until the lower hull is here.
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- Close fit of the casemate along the back upper engine deck
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- Test fit of the resin is looking really good.
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- It was a lot easier to scribe, cut and file the upper hull with all of the add on pieces of plastic removed earlier.
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- Upper hull with add on armor carefully removed. I might need some of these pieces for later.
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- Tauchpanzer upper hull untouched...
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- Ready to begin
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Re: 1941 StuG III Ausf B
Hi Painless, looking great, following along with the build. Alwyn 
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Re: 1941 StuG III Ausf B
Alpha,
If those blinking front hatches on the Tauchpanzer upper deck were the right way round, I wouldn't even have to use the resin front piece. *chuckles* Trying to decide if I want to open up any of the engine deck hatches or make the air intakes open.
regards,
Painless
If those blinking front hatches on the Tauchpanzer upper deck were the right way round, I wouldn't even have to use the resin front piece. *chuckles* Trying to decide if I want to open up any of the engine deck hatches or make the air intakes open.
regards,
Painless
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Re: 1941 StuG III Ausf B
Alwyn,
Thanks for the follow, Sir!
regards,
Painless
Thanks for the follow, Sir!
regards,
Painless
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Re: 1941 StuG III Ausf B
Interesting build thus far, as always. Going to do some IR battling with it this year?
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Re: 1941 StuG III Ausf B
Pale,
Good to hear from you. ;o) I'm going to build my Taigen Tiger as a battler. I could use the 'Crackerbox Palace' as one too if the mood hit. There's a really cool module out that plugs into the RX-18 type of boards' wiring and allows combat with Tamiya systems. Something to look into. The IBU2 I'm using for the Tiger build will be battle ready out of the box. What tanks are you working on lately? I heard rumors of a Sherman, I remember?
regards,
Painless
Good to hear from you. ;o) I'm going to build my Taigen Tiger as a battler. I could use the 'Crackerbox Palace' as one too if the mood hit. There's a really cool module out that plugs into the RX-18 type of boards' wiring and allows combat with Tamiya systems. Something to look into. The IBU2 I'm using for the Tiger build will be battle ready out of the box. What tanks are you working on lately? I heard rumors of a Sherman, I remember?
regards,
Painless
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Re: 1941 StuG III Ausf B
Hi Painless,
Another great build there will follow the build.The StUG III is my favourite tank well done. Brian...
Another great build there will follow the build.The StUG III is my favourite tank well done
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Re: 1941 StuG III Ausf B
Brizo,
Thank you! I had not given a lot of thought about StuGs until that cool 1/35 Tamiya kit came my way and I saw how very nice the machine looked in it's early configuration. I'm looking forward to running this one around.
regards,
Painless
Thank you! I had not given a lot of thought about StuGs until that cool 1/35 Tamiya kit came my way and I saw how very nice the machine looked in it's early configuration. I'm looking forward to running this one around.
regards,
Painless
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Re: 1941 StuG III Ausf B
Hi,
Yea i'v built the tam kit when it 1st came out still have it somewhere!!! Where did you get the conversion?? Like to do one myself. You could do it as Wittmans StUG!!. Brian...
Yea i'v built the tam kit when it 1st came out still have it somewhere!!! Where did you get the conversion?? Like to do one myself. You could do it as Wittmans StUG!!. Brian...
