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M.Julian Marles (hetzer)
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T-34 Marder "What If"

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Old Italeri track finds new life as added armour... 
 

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Aber treadplate for floor 
 

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A miscellany of bits and bobs 
 

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Extra armour was roughed up to emulate blowtorch cuts... 
 

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The horrible Italeri tracks had to be epoxied, of course! 
 

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Plasticard sidewalls made from cardboard templates 
 

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Voyager treadplate for compartment floor 
 

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extra armour, track armour pinned and welded, grab handle 
 

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German tools added to hull 
 

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Preliminary hull interior additions 
 

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Exterior hull additions 
 

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Testors Dark Green was used for the base 
 

Comments

13 October 2015, 00:42
Rui S
Hi M.Julian. I'm in Mate. I've been following your discussion about this with John.

Might like the images I posted in the "MT" thread:

Military Thinking MT1 | Album by mig (1:35)

Cheers
13 October 2015, 01:14
M.Julian Marles
Indeed I have checked it out, it's' great! 🙂
13 October 2015, 01:25
Rui S
Hi Julian,
Interesting conversion photo 👍.
17 October 2015, 12:21
M.Julian Marles
yes, bizarre!
17 October 2015, 22:57
John Dunbar
In!
19 October 2015, 04:52
M.Julian Marles
Well, back to a normal work week of only five days per week, so I managed to get back to this project : preliminary coat of dark green for the Russian chassis and hull (to be shaded and over sprayed with thinned Soviet Armour Green, etc), worked on some details like OVM equipment, accessories, etc. Need to build a radio/radio rack, ammo rack, floor hatch and some other stuff but it's slowly coming together!😉
12 April 2016, 05:25
EnsignExpendabl
Be careful, in a year rumours that this was a real vehicle will spread, in ten years it will be in magazines, just like the T-34-88.
12 April 2016, 20:57
M.Julian Marles
Lol, I am sure there's a Cyberhobby white box in the works as we speak! 😛
12 April 2016, 21:55

Album info

A T-34 has been captured by the Germans. The turret and gun were damaged beyond repair but the chassis was in fine running order and was slated to be converted to an artillery tractor. A wounded Sturmartillerie commander was passing by, and with his vehicle lost in combat, ordered the field workshop to quickly mount a Pak 40 L/46 75mm anti-tank gun to the vehicle and install simple armoured walls. Additional tools and equipment were commandereed, scavenged and "borrowed" from other tanks. Red Brown and Dark Yellow were oversprayed over the original Soviet Green. The original markings "334" were painted on using blue digits. Later, the "Beutemarder" was assigned to assist another unit, where the temporary digits "21" were also added. Unhappy with the poor frontal armour of the T-34, the commander had additional steel plating and panzer treads welded to the hull. There was no time to paint the additional armour as the 'Marder" was recalled to battle and the German/Russian hybrid rolled out to combat. Three we

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