Stug 3 Side Skirts

General Discussion General Modeling Discussion
1

On the thin armor “skirts” on the Stug 3 model that I am doing, would these have been camoflaged on both sides of the skirts, or just on the side facing the outside? I can’t find any photos that show one way or the other.

Thanks

2

I think the general consensus is the outside only. No real reason to waste time and resources painting camo on the side that wouldn’t have even be seen.

3

I second Eric. And I think the inside would be Dark Yellow rather than primer red, though I am not 100% sure on that.

4

Thanks for the help. I agree the inside would be the dark yellow and not primer. Just didn’t know about the outside. I have also seen pictures of the camo on the outside being different between skirts. The explaination was that the skirts were damaged and replaced with others.

5

That’s true Recon. The plates were not secured to the vehicles but hung in such a way that it that got tangled that would come off rather than foul up the vehicle. This means its not uncommon to see vehicles with plates missing or plates in a different pattern.

6

I’d second that.

7

You mean, like this?

It was certainly faster to just build about half of the plates for this Panther. At first I had planned on doing both side completely, but I thought, as you said Bish, that many vehicles would lose plates in action and the result would look something like I tried to replicate.

Gary