Stug III F/8

Currently building a Stug III and got the Friulmodel Winterketten for it. Anyone knows the number of tracks there was on each side When counting on photos I am getting around 90 but if someone has something specific written down just to make sure.

Tancred

Tancred wrote:Currently building a Stug III and got the Friulmodel Winterketten for it. Anyone knows the number of tracks there was on each side When counting on photos I am getting around 90 but if someone has something specific written down just to make sure.

Tancred

acording to achtung panzer no 5 (stug iii stugiv and sig 33) the no of track link is 93. if you want i can lend you this book it is the ultimate in info on the stug

Thank you very much Alex

Waiting for that book to arrive from HLJ Have the one on the Panther in that series and as you said, they are great.

Tancred

Number of links used in reality DO NOT MATCH number of Friul links needed for the model. But anyway German tanks had a variable amount of sag so the number might not be that crucial?!

Looking forward to seeing some in progress pics Tank Red...

Dottore

Dottore wrote:Number of links used in reality DO NOT MATCH number of Friul links needed for the model. But anyway German tanks had a variable amount of sag so the number might not be that crucial?!

Looking forward to seeing some in progress pics Tank Red...

Dottore

To ALL AFV Nuts and this is a question honestly.

Do you REALLY mean that the number of links would be really counted in a competition? And I mean in a competition where the AFV's are judged by AFV modellers/conossieurs and not picked out randomly from the street like they pick jurors

Ray

Ray wrote:

Dottore wrote:Number of links used in reality DO NOT MATCH number of Friul links needed for the model. But anyway German tanks had a variable amount of sag so the number might not be that crucial?!

Looking forward to seeing some in progress pics Tank Red...

Dottore

To ALL AFV Nuts and this is a question honestly.

Do you REALLY mean that the number of links would be really counted in a competition? And I mean in a competition where the AFV's are judged by AFV modellers/conossieurs and not picked out randomly from the street like they pick jurors

Ray

re judges i doubt they will have the time to count the links they will take note if the sag is ok and keep on moving
BUT the question is. do we build eye candy only and disregard accuracy or do we depict authenticity. i would go for an accurate, because afterall i build models for my own gratification

Alex, definitely not eye candy as we all know. I was just curious re this link by link thing, as we all strive for authenticity. Well if you remember when I made the pleats on my still to be ready Highlander I depicted the exact number

Ghandi d-dubji kemm u jekk jinghaddux f'dan il-kaz

Ray

This is interesting BUT Alex when we consider a Stug or a PzIV have also about 15+ more track links on the hull, and not considering some others extra placed on the field for protection, did the crew obey the rules? I aways thaught the slag of the tracks determined depending the terrain ... snowy, muddy and soggy terrain demanded more slag then the usual but was this considered on the log books ...

Iv

ivan the slag or track sag is not due to numbers but it has been proven that a new set of tracks on the m1a1 will after a hundred km be almost 20 cm longer hence the track tensioners on almost every thank or tracked vehicle produced.as for additional tracks as armour i agree. i was simply pointing out that regulations which were often discarded on the feild demanded that the stug iii should have 93links per side.

also a sagging track was also very dangerous on the battlefeild because it would easily be shorn off
some tanks eg tiger family could not add or remove a single track at a time because it had two alternating types

Ray wrote:Alex, definitely not eye candy as we all know. I was just curious re this link by link thing, as we all strive for authenticity. Well if you remember when I made the pleats on my still to be ready Highlander I depicted the exact number

Mhux l-istess nista nghid ghal dan li qed naghmel pero

Ghandi d-dubji kemm u jekk jinghaddux f'dan il-kaz

Ray

yes i do remember and still have nightmares just looking at them let alone trying (succesfully might i add) to replicate them as you did, though im still not happy(who cares) that you havnt finishedit yet

Might be interesting:









Tancred.... I don't think the extension could come loose. I've seen models with these type of tracks that would have a few extensions missing.... I don't know if this is correct.

Regards
Noel

alex wrote:

Ray wrote:Alex, definitely not eye candy as we all know. I was just curious re this link by link thing, as we all strive for authenticity. Well if you remember when I made the pleats on my still to be ready Highlander I depicted the exact number

Mhux l-istess nista nghid ghal dan li qed naghmel pero

Ghandi d-dubji kemm u jekk jinghaddux f'dan il-kaz

Ray

yes i do remember and still have nightmares just looking at them let alone trying (succesfully might i add) to replicate them as you did, though im still not happy(who cares) that you havnt finished it yet

Nice one Alex

First things first mate.......but will do definitely

Ray

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Ray

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Tancred wrote:Currently building a Stug III and got the Friulmodel Winterketten for it. Anyone knows the number of tracks there was on each side When counting on photos I am getting around 90 but if someone has something specific written down just to make sure.

Tancred

TanKRed where are you with this one mate? You'll get it ready for AMT or?

Ray

Shelved for the time being , got the Achtung Panzer book recommended by Alex and the kit is quite different from the version it is supposed to depict.

Working on a German armoured car which I hope to finish for AMT, will open another thread with the progress.

Tancred

Why do u bother with minor tweaks TankRed...go for a good painted model and it will be a greart model all the same...

Dottore

PS Still i feel for your pain mate....

Dottore wrote:Why do u bother with minor tweaks TankRed...go for a good painted model and it will be a greart model all the same...

Dottore

PS Still i feel for your pain mate....

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from which pulpit. it must be the overdose of coffee, i must be in wonderland or never neverland all of you out please there tell me if im dreaming who was it that spent a hell of a lot of time on a single mg.

CONFUSED IM SO CONFUSED, OK ALICE WILL BE JOINING YOU SOON, IL BE BRINGING PETER AND WENDY ALONG BUT CAPTAIN HOOK WONT BE ABLE TO MAKE IT

To bad that you have put it on the shelf!

alex wrote:

from which pulpit. it must be the overdose of coffee, i must be in wonderland or never neverland all of you out please there tell me if im dreaming who was it that spent a hell of a lot of time on a single mg.

CONFUSED IM SO CONFUSED, OK ALICE WILL BE JOINING YOU SOON, IL BE BRINGING PETER AND WENDY ALONG BUT CAPTAIN HOOK WONT BE ABLE TO MAKE IT

It seems that I've missed something. Do we have a club member that obsessive over one piece?!

/Tiny

Yes Tiny you're MISSING a BIT

Just browse a bit on the AFV threads and you'll see why Alex talked to Doc in that way after spending some 15days just twisting and forming a Photo Etched MG Jacket

Ray

Weldone Tancred, if you are in doubt!

Wil