SU-100 Tank Destroyer in German Service

[phat trev]

I am working on a Revell 1/35 Su-100 and want to finnish it as a captured German machine.

The model comes with a decal option for a German machine but I am interested to find other machines that had been used by Panzer Divisions.

Anyone know of any?

[dahut]

Sorry, no. I have the kit, too - Zvezda originally, I believe.

I knew the SU-100 was used by Egypt but not the Germans.

[vonmarkenhausen]

Captured Russian equipment used by the the Germans was mainly T-34's and KV's. Adapted or modified to suit German use. I believe a lot were field conversions? Probably the most common captured equipment was Russian field artillery. Such as the various 7.62cm. IBM do a PAK 36 ® which was used by the Afrika Korps! Some Katyusha rockets were fitted to opel and french half tracks.Not a huge amount of detail on this subject, as not many photographs exist. Best bet is to surf the net, there are some drawings about.

Edited November 7, 2010 by vonmarkenhausen

[Paul Brickles]

Try -

here

Paul

[Seahawk]

To be honest, SU-100s were only coming into service with the Red Army at the end of the war so they were pretty uncommon in Russian hands, making the chances of their falling into German hands even less likely, all the more so since the Germans were falling back and most disabled tanks left on the battlefield would have fallen into Soviet hands. The fact that, according to the website linked to by Paul, the Germans never allocated a Fremdgeraet number (xxx ® no.) for the SU-100 sort of suggests, but by no means proves, they didn't capture any. No harm in looking of course but don't get your hopes up. As others have said, SU-100s saw most of their service post-war.

[vonmarkenhausen]

Sorry phat trev but the above posts are correct. SU-100 was mass produced from sept 1944 onward. It was used en masse in Hungary march 1945, so possibly captured exampes used against their owners? By 1945 less than 2500 were built. So not very common by Russian standards? SU-85 is similar in appearance, albeit different gun mantlet,built 1943 to 44. However I'm no purist and I am working on a couple of "what if"projects myself. Stick some jerrycans, panzergrenadiers and black crosses on it. Who will know the difference?

[dahut]

Stick some jerrycans, panzergrenadiers and black crosses on it. Who will know the difference?

Which is, of course, the essence of WHIF modeling. Hell the way I do it, its true of modeling in general!

[Sgt.Squarehead]

Here's one:

Details here:

http://beute.narod.ru/Beutepanzer/su/color...su-t34based.htm

HTH & All the best

Andy S.