Stug III Ausf G East-front 1945

Modeling Subjects Armor
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[:D] Hello friends:

Here is my last work:

The Kit: Stug III Ausf G of Gunze Sangyo 1/35.
The assambling of the parts is very good and the plastic is of great quality!. No problems there.

Painting with Tamiya acrylics:

  • Day 1.- I applied a base coat of panzer grey

  • Day 2.- I proceeded to paint with dark-yellow
    a).- First camo with olive-green
    b).- Second camo with dark-brown

  • The tools were painted with metal gun of Humbrol

  • Wooden box with brown of Humbrol

  • Wheels with panzer grey of Tamiya

  • Periscopes with blue of Humbrol

Weathering:

  • Washes with brown oils (using 502 Abteilung #080 Wash Brown) very diluted with turpentine spirit two times.
  • Dots with oils (white, red, blue, siena toasted, siena natural) applied with clean turpentine spirit
  • I applied brown pigments in the crevices and some parts of rear and front
  • More pigments in sides of the chassis and wheels
  • Airbrush with flat earth of Tamiya in all the armor
  • Black pigments in the gun barrel

Version:
This tank was abandoned in the Laba River (East-front) and was found almost intact because of lack of fuel (early 1945). This time I finished with a discreet weathering of humidity as it was in those days of March 1945.

Regards,
Rodolfo

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Wow that’s a beautiful build!

I really like the weathering and details–the caked mud on the lower hull looks especially cool!

The only thing I would recommend to take a second look at is that smudge on the front of the saukopf mantlet–it looks like a nasty blemish there that detracts a little, IMHO. Might want to do a little repair on the finish there?

But overall, great job!

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Very nice! I love Sturmgeschutzen!

The only advice I would offer is that the commander’s hatch had no mechanism to prop it upright like that. It was either closed or flipped all the way back, where it rested on the bumper stop. HTH

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Beautiful work Rodolfo. Thanks for sharing.

Regards, Rick

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Hey Rodolfo,ST here.I didn’t know you haunted these forums as well.Great job.

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One of my fave vehicles. I especially like the lower hull with all the dirt and grime. Blends in nicely. Thanks for the breakdown on applications too.

This is like the third Gunze kit in a little over a week, we never get to see many of them.

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Hmmm, another Gunze StuG kit right after the other one! Great job on this one! Painting and weathering are top notch! [tup] These StuG posts are getting me hooked!

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Nice work Rodolfo!! Got to love the StuG in any clothing!!

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Fall is Stug time it seems! Nice work on this one Rodolfo, only small things I would recommend would be to drill out the muzzle on the MG34 and the optical face of the gunner’s scope since these are solid on the kit parts.

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[:D] Thanks for your kind comments and recommendation friends!.

Regards,
Rodolfo

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Pretty cool man. One thing that I noticed though is the return rollers look pretty clean on the inside for such a dirty vehicle. I would think that they would get dirty as well, not caked with mud dirty, but just not so clean. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.