Late August I purchased Tamiya's 1/35 Stug IV. It was a German armored infantry support vehicle in WWII. What I like about armored vehicles is that you can focus on doing all the building up front and paint after construction. With aircraft you build a little, paint a little, weather a little, build some more and so on. I got this kit for $18 on Amazon, so it is pretty cheap compared to most armor kits that range from $30 - $70.
Let's do some building!
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| The box! |
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| Upper and lower hulls. See all the holes in the lower hull? We'll have to take care of those as I don't think they were accurate to the real vehicle! The mold for the kit is from 1975 I believe. It appears the lower hull had some sort of option to install a motor and batteries, which is probably why all the holes are there. |
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| More rubber band tracks. I don't think I'll try painting them this time. |
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| All the wheels. |
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| More miscellaneous parts. |
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| We're on to the initial construction! This is the rear plate that attaches to the lower hull. |
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| Here's the muffler. There was quite the seam line, which was more of a ridge, on the top and bottom of the muffler. I added Mr. Dissolved putty before attempting to sand it down. The end caps have those feet that attach to the rear plate. The notch on the left wasn't well designed as the feet were not symmetrically opposite. The muffler didn't dry fit properly on the rear plate, so I had to pop off the left side, cut away some plastic, so the feet were perfectly opposite each other. The fit was much better. |
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| The inside of the muffler had a big seam line. The best way to take care of that was to drill it out, just like a real muffler! |
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| The near completed rear plate. |
That's where we will leave it for this time. I'll try to devote some effort to getting more of these posted soon. Thanks for checking in.
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