I find this interesting kit on ebay. The last version of German assault gun. Stug IV. The superstructure of the StuG IV was mounted on a Panzer IV chassis. This manufactured by CMK with Tamiya cooperation…It’s a older kit with PE parts…I will add resin MG 42 and metal barrel from RBmodel. 
Can’t wait to see this build all finished up! Looks like your adding alot of extra detail and I think it’s gonna pay off.[Y]
So are those scratch copper pieces your adding to the hull?..top notch work for sure.
Hi,
These cooper pipes where included with the kit. They’re pre-cut …
If I’m correct, this is the old Tamiya kit with a bunch of upgrades. It’s looking really good so far with all those PE additions and such.
Hi Tiger,
Yes that’s the Tamiya kit in CMK box with a lot of extras specially the PE. This one will be build with the site skirts. Their principal function was to initiate the incoming cumulative charges…and they’re see through. They will allow to see the whole wheel section of the model…etc…
In reality, the side skirts were meant to defeat penetration by Soviet AT rifle rounds, not incoming AP or hollow charge rounds as often has been cited. The Germans were keenly aware of the legions of AT rifles arrayed against them and shored up vulnerable spots on some vehicles. Look at the Panther and Hetzer and Tiger II schurzen : just below the sponsons and above the roadwheels. The full sides and turret of the Pz III and Pz IV rec’d schurzen treatment.
Tom Laemlin wrote a research piece about it awhile ago and he found where US intel reports were misquoted and mis-interpreted.
Hi T26E4,
I think you meant the other side skirts made like a armored plates installed on booth sides. The one i have looks like a mesh similar to those on T-34-85 that Russian where using to protect their tanks against panzefaust. They where bad springs …
Here is a photo of Russian AT gun PTRS-41 that was produce between 1941 and 1945…
The 14.5 mm armour-piercing bullet had a muzzle velocity of 1012 m/s and good ballistics. It could penetrate an armour plate up to 40 mm thick at a distance of 100 meters.
Hi Van: While you’re correct that the Sovs adapted mesh screens to help defeat German hollow charge weapons, the Germans evolved to the so-called “Thoma” screens which were just the next step in German schurzen without any relationship to the Soviet bed spring ad hoc solution (they weren’t actually bed springs either – it’s just a nickname).
The Thoma screens had a very tight weave – again, to defeat the ballistics of the Soviet AT rifle rounds. When it penetrated the Thoma screen, the bullet would spin and not hit the tank armor beneath at full and straight trajectory. German engineers found that the cheaper and less weighty screens was as effective as the earlier 5mm schurzen plates. The Thoma shields were used exactly for the same purposes as the schurzen – not like how some Soviet crews used the “bed spring” armor against panzerfausten. That similarity is coincidental according to the written record. HTH
After long brake from building models here it is upgrade on my STUG IV 
Few photos from 2006. Stug IV has been pulled out from a small river in Poland and now is totally restored and drivable… 
Nice to see you’re able to get back to this one Van, looking forward to more progres. [Y]
Great photos of the Poland StuG.
Curious as to why you didn’t prime the barrel and muzzle on the first go?
For the metal barrel I used MR. Metal Primer from MR HOBBY. It’s a clear liquid…Bonds well with metal parts…
Now is all painted with Zink Chrome Primer from Floquil. Excellent paint by the way…It will need few days to dry and after i will start painting the model with acrylics…first all black and after the camouflage…
Hi! Some progress with the Stug IV…Painted black…After i spent some time to make the side skirts. After I switch to paint the camouflage and sprayed future over the paint to prepare for decals and wash… 
Hi Van,
nice job on this one! Of course I like the screens the most. Like two nonths ago I’ve seen the 1:1 StuG on a flat-bed trailer in Poznań. Almost made me create a traffic jam, such a rarity! Good luck with your project, have a nice day
Pawel
Nice job on the camo pattern Van and of course the Thoma schurzen are pieces of work all by themselves. [Y]