Dutch
In the first photo, is the muzzle painted to look like an aardvark / anteater?

Alan Rush
Is it a hog's head for the "hog's head" style mantlet? Nice picture.

Fabian D.
The mantlet is called Saukpfblende (pig head mantlet), so I suppose it´s rather a pig than an anteater which not that popular here anyway... mainly because you can find those just in the zoo😉

Dutch
Bestimmt! Genauso!

Fabian D.
ouch... modelling without visible progress... with the Spiegelberger: SCM Book: at the ready, checking every suspicious part...
I´m really glad I´m applying Zimmerrit over most critical areas...

Hunter Cummins
Me in 😄 I really want some fruils lol plus you got all of that pe lol

Fabian D.
Friuls are a really an awful lot of work, but they can be done with some distraction aswell (TV, eg)😉
done a bit of work on bits and pieces, and started with the Zimmerit... I´m not entirly happy with the result, but it will be easier on the other spots...

Hunter Cummins
Awesome lol. Whats the difference between winterketten and ostketten????

Alan Rush
Fabian, is there any cleanup needed on the Fruil tracks, like sanding off flash or sanding rough edges? Or are they basically ready to go?

Fabian D.
@Hunter: the Ostketten ("East-tracks"😢 are not as wide as the winter ones, but were better for the conditions in the east as the standard tracks.
@Alan: there is some flash present, but cleanup is easy, as the whitemetal is a bit softer than plastic, apart from that you have to drill out the holes to instert the wire... which is "some" work....😉

Took care of one of the major faults in the kit, the closed intakes. Problem was solved by stealing spares from an unbuild Dragon Jagdpanzer... and while seaching for the requred parts I nipped some spare fenders aswell (Dragon Panzer IV Ausf A)😉

Fabian D.
It fellt almost like the fenders were mad for the same tank😉
Fit was almost perfect and almost all holes could be covered with toolclamps. Quite like the Eduard clamps, petty good looking but beeing just one part, hence easy to assemble...

Hunter Cummins
Looks great
How did you make the weld seam and can you post a l7nk to the eduard tool clamp set so I can have it in my wishlist ??
How did you use the zimm applicator?? Did you drag it a small distamce go up and down then repeat??

Fabian D.
Thx! Clamps were in the PE set linked in the project, I guess they are of the same style in other Eduard sets aswell. Exactly, that´s the way I did the Zimmerit pattern.
Weld seams... mhh, I tries Miliput at first, but couldn.t get them as fine as I liked them, so I went back to the strtched sprue technique I explained to you some time ago, third comment from above: Marder II D | Album by nng (1:35)

Hunter Cummins
Sweet thanks fabian
Will try it out soon
I want to start my hetzer now lol

Fabian D.
little update... little more Zimmerit...😉

Alberto Bianchi
Hi Fabian,
My compliments for a beautifull StuG, will very fine at end of the job! I look forward to see it painted.
have you used a milliput for zimmerit?

Fabian D.
Thanks Alberto, I'd like to see the kit done aswell. But there is still a lot of Zimmerit and PE left do do...
I'm indeed using milliput, but have used cheaper air clay for creating the base of the concrete blocks, which is drying way faster anyway.

John Van Kooten
Awesome, Fabian! It's taking shape really nicely! 👍

Albi Hitz
Ahhh ... I like it ... especially the Zimmerit on the front hatch .... looks good so far