StuH 42 Production of Alkett Company
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The box art of TAKOM 8004
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An 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.
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Late Production StuH 42 with side-skirts. This reference photo also depicts the 3rd painting option on TAKOM 8006 instruction.
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It 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.
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An 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.
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The box art of old Dragon 9058, one of the famous Dragon products which was no longer available in marketplace.
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The 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.
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The common chassis for all Panzer and StuG III
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12 Torsion bars
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4 Suspension springs
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The 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).
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The steel return rollers (late 1943/early 1944 Alkett version) are spare parts from Academy 13531
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Actually, 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.
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Upper hull and fenders are molded together .
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Spaced armor on front lower hull
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Engine decks
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The 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.
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Front spaced armor
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The basic upper structure of StuG III
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Unlike the Panzer III, the case holder for spare road wheels were welded on engine decks.
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The manlet of early version StuG G.
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I drill some holes on both fenders to settle the C-hooks.
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The original 75mm L/48 gun with muzzle breaks which provided by 8004.
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Time to make a replacement. The plastic 75mm L/48 gun is substituted by a 105mm L/28 metal barrel.
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The appearance of metal barrel is so damn cool.
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All the frameworks and shelves for side skirt armor are spare parts from Academy 13531.
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The only drawback is that there is no rifle line inside the metal barrel.
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I 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…………. ?
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The Academy 13531 actually offers tons of spare parts for modelers to do revision works.
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Again, it is necessary to add a jerrycan case at the rear of vehicle, I will do this in the first 3 days of 2022.
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My next concern is how and where I can find some side skirts. Maybe DIY is one of the good options for me?
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The 3D printed smoke candles of RFM 5001U.
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I 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.
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Reference photo for smoke candles on StuG/StuH (Screenshot from Panzermeister 36's Youtube channel)
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Ok, all 6 smoke candles have been installed. Hmm... it seems that size of tubes from RFM are still smaller.
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The next activity will be the installation of jerrycan case and that is also the last assembly task before airbrushing.
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The jerrycan case at rear has been added
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The rack for spare tracks
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Next, airbrush the base coat
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One 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).
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Base coat - XF-63
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Next would be the chipping color
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The chipping color was done.
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I am using the XF-9 as chipping color.
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The top coat and camouflage will be applied in next couple of days after the chipping color is fully dry.
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Tri-color camouflage has been airbrushed
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The 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.
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Comparing the XF-90 to old XF-64, the XF-90 is much darker than XF-64.
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Chips have also been applied.
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12 road wheels are all assembled.
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Spare road wheels on engine decks.
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The decals have been applied.
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Next task will be track assembly and tow cables on fenders.
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Tracks and some other accessories.
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All the tasks have been done ~~~ Project close
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Комментарии
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).