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Modelling a Sturmgeschütz III Sturmgeschütz IIIG late (May 1944 production) and vignette - Gary Edmundson
Contents
Introduction
Tools and materials
Sturmgeschütz IIIG late (May 1944 production) and vignette
Gallery of Sturmgeschütz III models
Museums and collections
Further reading, media and websites
Available kits and accessories
Colour reference chart
Introduction
The concept of the Sturmgeschütz III started well before the war when the German Army announced the need for a self-propelled 75mm gun to be used for infantry support. By 1938, several ‘0-Serie’ prototype vehicles were produced on earlier style Panzer IIIB chassis by Daimler-Benz. The Alkett factory in Berlin manufactured the first 30 Sturmgeschütz III Ausführung A (StuG III Ausf. A) production vehicles that went into combat in the invasion of France.
As the war progressed, the StuG III was continuously improved through Ausführung A to E, and then given a longer, more powerful gun starting with the Ausf. F. The role of this AFV became more diverse with a great increase in its anti-tank role. Some StuG IIIs were allotted to Panzer companies to supplement their losses. Significant changes to the hull were made with the introduction of the Ausf. G, and the later variant of the G was produced right up until April 1945. The StuG III chassis was also used to house the 10.5cm Sturmhaubitze 42 L/28 howitzer, and Alkett produced over 1,200 of these. With a low silhouette and strongly armoured hull, the StuG III proved to be one of the more significant weapons used by German forces during World War II.
With over 9,000 of these vehicles being produced during the war (of mostly the Ausführung G variant), the Sturmgeschütz III has been a very popular subject with modellers for years. Airfix released a kit of the StuG IIIG in 1/72 scale in the late 1960s, but just referred to it as a ‘75mm Assault Gun’. Tamiya produced a 1/35-scale kit soon afterwards, featuring magnificent box art and a relatively accurate model of the Ausf. G for its time. Several aftermarket companies offered resin conversion sets for the Tamiya base model to upgrade or construct different versions. Gunze Sangyo released a couple of groundbreaking kits with their high-tech multimedia versions of the StuG IIIG Late and a StuH 42. Finally in 1994, Dragon Models Limited (DML) began to produce model kits of most of the Ausführung (Ausf.) of the vehicle. The trend started with the Ausf. B, and continued with the A, C/D, F, F/8 and late G. Recently, the later Ausf. G version was released with the 10.5cm howitzer – DML’s StuH 42. The kits were well researched, came with photo-etched metal details and individual moulded track links. During the DML StuG III ‘blitz’, Tamiya produced a newly tooled kit of the StuG IIIG in the form of a Frühe, or early variant. Although the kit still featured the vinyl-style tracks from previous years, the moulding and accuracy were far superior to anything previously available. Tamiya has just released a StuG IIIB, combining some of their previous StuG IIIG parts with a newly