StuH 42 Production of Alkett Company
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December 26, 2021The box art of TAKOM 80042
December 27, 2021An abandoned late version StuH 42. Both of the C-hooks were hung up and I thought there was only spaced armor on the driver's vision port.3
December 27, 2021Late Production StuH 42 with side-skirts. This reference photo also depicts the 3rd painting option on TAKOM 8006 instruction.4
December 27, 2021It was probably an early production StuH 42, notice the muzzle break for its 105mm L/28 howitzer. Many of the late version StuH 42s on reference did not have muzzle break.5
December 27, 2021An early version StuH 42 with the same manlet and machine gun shield as StuG. Ausf. G., the drive sprocket is also classified as early type.6
December 30, 2021The box art of old Dragon 9058, one of the famous Dragon products which was no longer available in marketplace.7
December 30, 2021The box art of TAKOM 8006. I have double check the instruction booklets of TAKOM 8006 and Dragon 9058 and I found the 2 two products were almost identical except for the side skirt armors.8
December 26, 2021The common chassis for all Panzer and StuG III9
December 26, 202112 Torsion bars10
December 26, 20214 Suspension springs11
December 26, 2021The gap of road wheel is a little bit wider, so I just cut all rods of 12 inner road wheels (That is the advice from Panzermeister36 on his Youtube channel).12
December 26, 2021The steel return rollers (late 1943/early 1944 Alkett version) are spare parts from Academy 1353113
December 26, 2021Actually, except for the traditional rubber return rollers, Academy 13531 provides two types of steel return rollers for modelers to choose; first type is the one I applied in previous photo (also referred as late 1943 or early 1944 version) and another type was the first 2 return rollers in this picture (denote as late 1944 version). I believe TAKOM 8006 only offers the late 1944 version for modelers.14
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December 26, 2021Upper hull and fenders are molded together .17
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December 26, 2021Spaced armor on front lower hull21
December 26, 2021Engine decks22
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December 26, 2021The shelves for S-mine are installed. I will use the 3D printed smoke candles from RFM 5001U to finish the 2 sets of S-mine. The reason I switch to RFM’s 3D components is that smoke candles provided by TAKOM is out of scale.24
December 26, 2021Front spaced armor25
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December 26, 2021The basic upper structure of StuG III28
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December 26, 2021Unlike the Panzer III, the case holder for spare road wheels were welded on engine decks.30
December 26, 2021The manlet of early version StuG G.31
December 26, 2021I drill some holes on both fenders to settle the C-hooks.32
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December 26, 2021The original 75mm L/48 gun with muzzle breaks which provided by 8004.35
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December 26, 2021Time to make a replacement. The plastic 75mm L/48 gun is substituted by a 105mm L/28 metal barrel.41
December 26, 2021The appearance of metal barrel is so damn cool.42
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December 26, 2021All the frameworks and shelves for side skirt armor are spare parts from Academy 13531.44
December 26, 2021The only drawback is that there is no rifle line inside the metal barrel.45
December 26, 2021I promise that next time I will not start a new project until the prior project has been done. My Tunisia Tiger I of 501 Abt. was on strike since early December…………. ?46
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December 26, 2021The Academy 13531 actually offers tons of spare parts for modelers to do revision works.48
December 26, 2021Again, it is necessary to add a jerrycan case at the rear of vehicle, I will do this in the first 3 days of 2022.49
December 26, 2021My next concern is how and where I can find some side skirts. Maybe DIY is one of the good options for me?50
December 27, 2021The 3D printed smoke candles of RFM 5001U.51
December 27, 2021I think the size of plastic tube that provided by TAKOM is a little bit smaller compare to the 3D printed part. Moreover, I do not want to waste valuable spare components of my initial Tiger I, that is why I switch to use these 3D printed tubes.52
December 27, 2021Reference photo for smoke candles on StuG/StuH (Screenshot from Panzermeister 36's Youtube channel)53
December 27, 2021Ok, all 6 smoke candles have been installed. Hmm... it seems that size of tubes from RFM are still smaller.54
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December 27, 2021The next activity will be the installation of jerrycan case and that is also the last assembly task before airbrushing.56
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January 1, 2022The jerrycan case at rear has been added58
January 1, 2022The rack for spare tracks59
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January 1, 2022Next, airbrush the base coat63
January 1, 2022One of the good friends to fix the PE components ~~~ say Hello to soldering tin, say goodbye to instant cement (you still need it when you attach the PE on plastic).64
January 1, 2022Base coat - XF-6365
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January 1, 2022Next would be the chipping color67
January 2, 2022The chipping color was done.68
January 2, 2022I am using the XF-9 as chipping color.69
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January 2, 2022The top coat and camouflage will be applied in next couple of days after the chipping color is fully dry.72
January 8, 2022Tri-color camouflage has been airbrushed73
January 8, 2022The Tamiya new introduced XF-88, XF-89 and XF-90 looks pretty decent. I do not find a very big difference between XF-88 and old XF-60.74
January 8, 2022Comparing the XF-90 to old XF-64, the XF-90 is much darker than XF-64.75
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January 8, 2022Chips have also been applied.78
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January 8, 202212 road wheels are all assembled.82
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January 8, 2022Spare road wheels on engine decks.84
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January 8, 2022The decals have been applied.86
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January 8, 2022Next task will be track assembly and tow cables on fenders.93
January 9, 2022Tracks and some other accessories.94
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January 9, 2022All the tasks have been done ~~~ Project close96
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Opmerkingen
39 26 December 2021, 08:35
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Hi, Mathias. Thanks for your comment.
This kit is actually TAKOM 8004, I am trying to modify it to StuH-42 (TAKOM 8006) by using spare components from Academy 13531 (Panzer III Ausf. J).
1 January 2022, 11:49
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Using TAKOM 8004 StuG to simulate 8006 StuH; some components of this project are spare parts from Academy 13531 (Panzer III Ausf. J) and RFM 5001U (Initial Tiger I).