Panzer III based vehicles

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Dennis McQuillen
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Rob, The paint on your N is looking pretty awesome.
Mark, also looking forward to seeing the DShK on your Stug.

Just a little update to show that I am making some progress. I just about have the priming finished. Once that is totally done I will do some pre-shading before the first Dunkelgelb base coat.

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Thanks Dennis - I can say the same for that primer job - very nice.

So with the deadline approaching - it's time to pull the stops out :?

My first "Go" with burnishing fluid (AK Interactive) was perfectly painless

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I did get some bare metal patches and I can only assume that I didn't scrub and wash the tracks sufficiently to begin with. Still pretty pleased though.

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And track fitting....

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I like Fruil tracks :D

The figure was painted last week. Alpine heads definitely do not paint as well as Hornet :|

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The rank insignia were Alliance Modelworks which are water slide and just easier to apply than Archer dry decals. Can anyone spot the deliberate mistake - Raoul/Philipp?

Bases are never my strong point but here it goes

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And finally the inner sides of the schurzen are "oiled"

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And that was a whole days work but I'll be done by Saturday :D :D :D

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Hi Rob

The oil work is excellent :D

The Alpine figure is tagged as an artillery/infantry man not Panzer crew :?:

The tracks look the part too :D

And your base is on the money, you have a real winner on the way Rob :D

Very nice one ;)

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Nice one Rob!
The figure might be tagged infantry/artillery but whatever the "tagger" ( ;) ) thought he was doing it's someone wearing the "Panzer-wrap" and the loose trousers of a tanker/assault artillery man.
The infantry had this jacket only in the case of mid-war Panzergrenadiere and those had it of course with webbing and in a green/bown-ish...er Feldgrau.
The grey version was nominally Sturmartillerie (where I could imagine the "artillery" tag comes from). Reality of course is less simple ;) . The Sturmartillerie also occasionally wore the black version, the tankers the grey version, mechanized artillery attached to PDs both....the longer the war lasts the more confusing it gets ;) .

Short version: from '43 on you can never go wrong with the grey panzer uniform :lol: .


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Beautiful work Rob! Almost there!
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Thanks Guys.

As to the figure - Raoul suggested early on that this sort of vehicle late -war might appear in a Panzergrenadier division and Not a Panzer division.

Thus I present this tank as belonging to a Kampfgruppe, Spring 1945 - identity unknown.

I originally set out for Reed green but it just did not look right and so I opted for Field grey reasoning as Raoul has suggested that the chaos of End of Days might have resulted in a Sturmartillerie jacket being purloined. The waffenfarbe is Panzergrenadier green and according to the Alliance Modelworks intsructions the epaulettes are for an NCO - the difficulty being that there was a moulded rank chevron that I believe only existed for Stabs Gefreiter downwards. The pics aren't great to see but there's a rank disparity between rank chevron and epaullettes which was the utterly nerdy "spot"..................................(I'll get my jacket :oops: )



And I've finished it and the pics will be winging their way to the Ed soon :D

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Great result Rob. Well done. :)

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Need to repaint the panzer jacket which is glossing up in the pics - :evil:

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Bases are never my strong point but here it goes
You can't be serious :shock: That base is a masterpiece! As is the Panzer.

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Magnificent Rob, both the tank and the base! :mrgreen:
(Italics and bold text ftw! :lol: )


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