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I have been working on and off since Aug 2008. What follows is a photo brief of the build. John

nice one, finished very nicely too, i still really like the mesh scurzen, makes a difference from the normal solid ones,

cheers, and good joB!

Matt

You have an excellent PzIV there Pcomm1! Im looking forward to seeing more of your work.
Cheers,
Rik

Hi John Do you use the gears to replace the clutch on the elevation and traverse .

regards pete

971wright wrote: Hi John Do you use the gears to replace the clutch on the elevation and traverse .

regards pete

Hi Pete, Yes, I use the Tamiya solid blue gears in both the elevation and rotation units. Both units use the same black clutch gears.
Though, you can always save some bucks and just pull out both the black clutch gears and glue them solid and them re-install them. Do not try and glue clutch gears while fitted in either unit, that for sure will NOT work. John

Welcome to the forum,and I may be a little late but great paint work.You should post in the new paint section of tips and tricks.You seem to have some skill in painting,and I for one would enjoy seeing you post some of your techniques.SAX

this came out very nice, great job

Hi There . I love your tank you have done an excellent job . I'm going to be working on my HL Pz.IV I realise the Tamiya is more accurate . I have a question if you don't mind . I was thinking of putting mesh skirts onto my Pz.IV . But it has the standard exhaust like yours and Ive only seen mesh skirts on the later models with vertical twin exhausts . Did you find any photographs of the model we have with mesh skirts . I realise they were fitted to the Ausf J s and that the early Ausf J had the old style exhausts upto August 1944 . But I suppose they were fased in not an instant swap over . Your tank is excellent and the I like how accurately you have made the skirts and they compliment your tank . I only hope mine are as good .

Thanks Littletankman

Hi Littletankman,

Thank you all for the words of encouragement. The Tamiya kit is an early model J and it could have had wire mesh schurzen mounted, regardless of the time it went down the production line. Whether schurzen was mounted had everything to do with parts availability and the wire mesh used was scarce late in the war, or so I have read during my model research phase. Go here to read more about wire mesh schurzen (Drahtgeflecht Schurzen) and or the solid steel schurzen plates:

http://www.stugiii.com/schurzen.html

The stand off scale, scratch built Drahtgeflecht Schurzen on this model used plan old wire mesh window screen material, HO model train type copper square tubing, plastic round tubes and plastic card stock and even picture hangers for some of the hull struts! The schurzen was normally about 18" off the ground and the assembly was eye balled from there. Here are a few more Pz4J photos and hope they help. And rather than keep the schurzen mounts perfectly straight and parallel; there are some bends and kinks to get things to look a little used. I did use the PzIV image from the Saumur Museum, but their schurzen shape seemed a little off. Note, the turret schurzen is supplied with the kit.

John 

And I enjoy my HL Pz3s rebuilds too. 

John