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The Sturmgeschütz is and always will be my favorite German armored vehicle. I made a lot of models of this versatile German piece of mechanics, and they never bored me. Only 1 I made had a 1:16 scale, and with that one I finished my hobby...

Not quite figured out which I like best, the 3 or 4!

It's just fun to mess with these vehicles, mangle the side skirts, and add stowage racks on the back... so much you can do to it!

Even made a fantasy version...

The below version is the 1:16 one!

Please leave a comment if you are a STUG lover like me!

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Heer (German army) soldiers on board a Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G2 with a 105mm Sturmhaubitze 42 L/28. The gun is equipped with a muzzle brake off the light field howitzer 105mm leFH 18/40, uncharacteristic for this type of StuG III. Probably Eastern Front, 1943

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My first 1:16 Stug/tankhunter more or less finished for now. This is not an RC model but completely build by hand.

#ww2 #german tank #Stug 3 #1:16 model kit #1:16 tank

StuG III assault guns replenish ammunition, unit, location and date unknown

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Nr.247 Stug 40 with Winterketten ( winter chains ).

Sturmgeschütz 40 Ausf.F, Ausf. F/8 and Ausf. G (Sd.Kfz.142/1).

Beginning with the StuG III Ausf. G from December 1942, a 7.92 mm MG34 machine gun could be mounted on a shield on top of the superstructure for added anti-infantry protection. Some of the F/8 models were retrofitted with a shield. An additional coaxial 7.92 mm MG34 started to appear in 1944 and became standard on all production during the same year.

The vehicles of the Sturmgeschütz series were cheaper and faster to build than contemporary German tanks; at 82,500 RM, a StuG III Ausf G was cheaper than a Panzer III Ausf. M, which cost 103,163 RM. This was due to the omission of the turret, which greatly simplified manufacture and allowed the chassis to carry a larger gun. By the end of the war, ~11,300 StuG IIIs and StuH 42s had been built.

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The Stug 3 based on the Panzerkampfwagen 3 originally intended as a artillery/breakthrough tank but it adepted a role of a panzerhunter tank. On of my all time favorites an I can't tell you why.