Market Garden Chat

[tr1ckey66]

Sorry Ian if you got the impression I'd be using the Stug in my build. I included it because it was on topic that's all. My build for the SSIG will be from scratch

Cheers P

[rickoshea52]

My view is that new models should be used. I have a build model of a semi destroyed house that could quite easily be used in a dio for this build but I won't be using it for that.

[Ian M]

Sorry Ian if you got the impression I'd be using the Stug in my build. I included it because it was on topic that's all. My build for the SSIG will be from scratchCheers P

Them it is me that should apologise Paul. But still a point worth raising as I am well aware that a big dio with five or six kits in 1/35 would end up costing a bob or two..

Personally I agree that all items in a SIG or GB should be new. I however do bend the rule at times (Gerns Space bug for example is pretty much unbuilt so that was OK in my mind).

Ian M

[Guest]

am well aware that a big dio with five or six kits in 1/35 would end up costing a bob or two..

One truck, two Jeeps and three sets of figures for the mash dio cost just over 50 quid, I consider that a fair bit myself but then again some of you spend hundreds on a single kit with all the pe and add-ons ...... Its all relative at the end of the day

[tr1ckey66]

I totally agree new kits should be used as half the fun is watching the build. Not a 'Blue Peter' style, here's one I prepared earlier'. On forums you tend to get a lot of builds that have obviously been done in the past and (whilst being good quality) tend to be clinical in their approach and motor along at a gallop, obviously because all the graft had been done previously. The thing I like about group builds is the unexpected things that crop up - success, failures, good, bad even funny. To me this is far more engaging than someone trying to emulate a magazine build.

But that's just me

[tr1ckey66]

I don't think mine has that style of mantlet. Maybe a lot of foliage will hide it!!

Hi Rick

Stugs of 280 Brigade were a mix of saukopf and box type mantlets. They also had a few StuH 10.5cm SPs as well. You'd need to find reference for a particular vehicle to get it bang on. Generally they were all quite late model Gs with a gun crutch on the bow plate and loader's hatch that opened side to side when viewed from the front (not front to back as in previous models). Also, there was provision for a remotely controlled roof MG but due to shortages, or just lack of time, these don't seem to have been fitted yet. On my model you can see a round blanking plate just in front of the loaders hatch this is for the remote MG.

As i said earlier they were a mix bag though and I have seen reference to early Stugs Gs in the area too.

In short I doubt anyone is going to really have an issue with you not having the identical model.

I'd say if you have a Stug IIIG with long barreled 75mm gun you're close enough.

Hope this helps

Cheers P

[aaron]

I just wanted to say thats a beautiful stug there trickey66 I am saving a stug ausf g for a special occasion and i could only dream of it looking half as sweet as your one.

[tr1ckey66]

I just wanted to say thats a beautiful stug there trickey66 I am saving a stug ausf g for a special occasion and i could only dream of it looking half as sweet as your one.

Thanks Aaron, Andy. The kit is an old dragon kit (I think it was in fact a Stuh 10.5cm and I changed the gun). I've built many Stugs in the past both from Dragon and Tamiya (which is also an excellent kit of the early G model).

If you're joining the SSIG with your Stug kit I'd be happy to give any modest advice I can give.

Cheers

P