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Hi Steve, that's a fine collection you have
Glad I could help you
Glad I could help you
If you were driving from St Petersburg it would be the M11T34, is that the motorway junction for Moscow lol?? Would have thought you would buy the paint by the very large bucket from red star supplies
If you were driving from St Petersburg it would be the M11
Yes I get my paint from the general stores at Scalemode Shopeski !
Yes but these days US dollars are good. Oh we don't worry of such things , the main warehouse is near Chernoblyl, and the cans have built in night lights !John, you be careful...they're not fussy on lead content...the heavier the cans means more value. Do they still accept Rubels?
Cheers,
Richard
Would be better If Historex had any stock !Very nice John!
Thanks Al, but I really don't think they would have had time to paint it, they just wanted to do an evaluation. Contrary to popular belief I can find no record of any captured StuG being used by the Russian in combat.Don't know why it is but i really don't like to see a nations equipment being painted in the enemies colours. Even seeing Luftwaffe aircraft in allies evaluation colours really grips my goat lol.
Good luck with the build though John
Hi Everyone
Bob and I have been speaking behind the scenes about this photo
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Bob very kindly worked it out for me that it was a Stug Ausf C/D. We thought maybe in Southern France or Italy. It transpires that it was actually taken in the spring of 1941 in the Balkans.
Steve
Steve,
that photo looks a little odd to me, something doesn't look right - the crew, the stream bed - it looks a little model like. It's a bridge ( or culvert ), - where does the water go, or come from on the other side. It could be a trick of perspective fooling my eye.................
Dave
It is a genuine photo Dave. If you look down the R/H side you will see it is from the Bundesarchiv. I will go into more detail on the build but Bob and I believe it is a training/gofer Stug attached to the Kompanies that invaded the Balkans. I also have two other close up photos of the same Stug parked up. I will show these when I do the build
Please read my post above this .Hi Pete, many thanks for the info, very interesting
John have you changed kit??
Bob
The grey would be correct for 1941, but a StuG IV would not be. Those only came in in, off the top of my head, 1944 (Bob, correct me if I’m wrong ) and never had a short-barrelled gun.Well seeing mine is a series1V, I shall fit a short barrel gun , and remove the side armour. Or do it as the the captured Finish one , with the longer gun. From the year of capture being 1941 I think grey will be correct ?
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