All right, next attempt of doing something... after the horrible fail... eeer "stall"... of the Flakpanzer I, I went ahead and dug up something I've done before (with Winterketten at that time, many moons ago): A Panzer IV Ausf. G for Third Kharkov... of course DML offers only decals for Hausser's II SS Panzerkorps... you know... the idiots who ignored von Manstein's explicit orders and engaged in exceedingly coslty street fighting in Kharkov itself...
Anyhow luckily and against pop-culturally filtered "common knowledge" about the Third Battle of Kharkov (actually only name so by von Manstein himself in "Lost Victories", initially it was just "The Donets Campaign", also "The Donbas and Kharkov operations" in soviet parlance) not only 4th Panzerarmee's II SS Panzerkorps was involved in the fighting but also XLVIIIth Panzerkorps with GD(!), 6th and the famed 11th (!) PDs as well as First Panzerarmee with another SS PD (the 5th) as well as 17th (reduced to six tanks and ten anti-tank guns at the end of operations) and 23rd PDs, not to speak of the whopping 9 IDs involved in the fighting as the backup behind the mailed fist of the armour divisions.
So it will be a GD vehicle... because they are always interesting and ever so slightly differently marked and equipped, because, you know, Guards formations (GD was a direct descendant of the Prussian Guards Regiment and if you keep a keen eye you can see the Wachbattalion of the Bundeswehr with it's black-letter cuff titles as a spiritual successor)
.Here's a late F2, not a G (though of course there is no true line but a continuum at this point, but this one has a Notek light instead of two Boschs) but roughly the same time period (this one is from late Blue of course, as fas as I know there was no true difference in the markings besides of course a white wash) with some of the idiosyncrasies that GD tanks have =>
And here's a GD tank for Third Kharkov, but this is too small to see really anything... =>
So here we go, the IV G is pretty much the high water mark of smart kits, so... the build itself was insanely fast, essentially flowing together =>
120 minutes...=>
The turret here took another 90min.
GD weirdo stuff - a lot of GD vehicles actually had infantry MG34s mounted in the radio man's ball mount... honestly don't know why
. (both barrels are RB items) - need to cut the burr on the MG bar. Blessed be the effects of optical supersizing 
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So this is the build so far.
It's currently good, if unchallenging, fun
.Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
You've made quick progress and it's good to see you having fun with it.
