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Hello calling all german armor experts. Does anyone know if you can backdate a Stug III G like these into an F/8 like the profile ? Im trying to figure this out for the Panzer III STGB coming in the spring. I want to do a North African StuG. and there were only ten successfully delivered. Four Ausf. D’s and Six Ausf.F/8’s if I cant find a D i need to fall back to this. Now Ive found the D was externally identical to an Ausf.C so if anyone can recommend kits for a C or D or F/8 that would be great also. Worse comes to worse I will fall back to an eastern front StuG. Dennis
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Thanks guys, this groupbuild is perfectly timed over the Xmas holidays season that i tend to enjoy with a bit of free days and modelling. It will present me with a good opportunity to finally complete my 1/72 Leeuwarden nightfighter base diorama that already houses three Me110's. http://www.britmodel...opic=25758&st=0 In references I have found that JG 27 was stationed here for a few months between march and june 1943 for Reichdefence duties with G4/R6 variants, the one without the Cannon bulges on the nose, with the heavy cannons underwing, hence the name Kanonenbote (Gunship) or Kanonenvogel. (Gunbird) Also nice to model the grey mottling camouflage with the colourful africa noseart of JG 27 that it became famous for. I plan to build six 109's to create a flightline with some basic groundsupport such as a filght command post. I'll building from existing G kits in the stash and rebuilding some gearless very old kits by stripping down to bares, do some mods, and disassemble to meet the 25% guideline. i'll be doing quite a bit of backdating from late G to early G to get the right G4. As one of the stash is a Russian Amodel Zwilling kit i will have a total of 5 fuselages, from which 4 will become complete aircraft, and the remaining one as a wingless rump in the hangar on the the diorama. The Zwilling is really a rough kit ... The sixth is a F model, that can also pass for a early G, also already made, and will be stripped down to components as well.. In the proces i will finally get to learn my G variants from G variants; a lack of insight i always wanted to resolve :-) For this GB i'll build it as a separate diorama, only to later graft it into the existing larger Leeuwarden diorama.
