My Stug conversion

[Brian Leach]

Derek,

You should be happy, AND proud. That is a really fine job you are doing.

AND thank you for sharing it with us.

Brian

[Paul Morris]

Hi Derek.
Looking good mate,real good it will be nice to see it again.
Paul

[Robert E Morey]

Derek, fantastic build! Glad to see some new progress. That will be a great looking Stug! Keep posting pix.
Kind regards,
Bob

[Derek Attree]

Hi Guys
Made some mounting bits for tool holding as on the Stug
things are in different places to the PzIII.
Holder for hammer to mount on side of rear section by engine vents.






This also shows the extended joining rails.



Derek

[Derek Attree]

Hi Guys
I also made brass holder for the Armorpax cutters just
so I could fix with a M2.5.screw.
Again different mounting place.




These items are all made from brass part and silver soldered together
for strength.
These are fun parts to make.
Some of you will notice the engine vents are missing that is because I am making the grill mesh covers for them pictures in the next couple of days.
Again these will be from brass.

Thanks

Derek

[Derek Attree]

Hi Guys
Made a few more fixings today the clamps for the tow cables.
and I made a cover for the axe head, all from brass.
The cable clamps are made from 5 parts each and I have
done them based on a photo in a book.






I had to make a bending fixture to make the top covers so a couple of photos of that.




Then the Axe head cover.




This is machined out of solid brass.

I am making the covers for the intakes and these I will post maybe tomorrow night.

Thanks

Derek

[Derek Attree]

Guys
So as promised photos of the grill covers under construction.
Frames on machine jig.

Mesh 4mm pitch brass woven from squires in Bogner Regis.

Mesh over frames ready for soldering.

Soldering I use soft solder and a big old iron.


Finished grill.

Fitted to vent.

Fitted to stug.


Thanks

Derek

[Derek Attree]

Guys
Just a photo of where we are with this project.



Derek

[Brian Leach]

Derek,

You are am animal!

Great job. Building the P III or Stug is really building something!

Thanks for the Pictures!

Brian

[Sven Strobbe]

Derek

We have to look out for you, before we know it you start building your own 1/1 arsenal...

Regards

Sven

[Nick Farrugia]

hi derek
great looking stug what will the final colour scheme be ,or havent you decided yet
regards nick

[Derek Attree]

Hi Guys
Thanks for the kind words. It is nice to know you are interested.
Nick the colour scheme was posted on page 5 of this section.
This I want to do if I can do the green trails.
Here they are again.




These images are from the book modeling the stug III from Osprey
and the model was by Tom Cockel
Derek

[Nick Farrugia]

hello derek
thanks for posting those pics they look great .i hope you can acheive the same result it would be stunning
best wishes
nick

[Derek Attree]

Hi Guys
Today that strange big yellow ball in the sky appeared
so I rushed home and got stuck into the paint tins.
Here are the results this is the base coat I will now wait some time
before the camo goes on.
I was going to do waffel pattern Zim but all my attempts at making a press tool to do this failed and my patents ran out.
I would like to thank Sarah for the pictures of the zim from the Bovie stug.
This is my new compessor.

And the spray gun I like to use.

This is the hull after about 10 light coats.

The rear end

The Gun

Fighting compartment

Running boards

Arms and bars


More in a second

Derek

[Derek Attree]

A few more pics.
The rear panel.

shocks and grills

the roof and sprockets

exhaust





Last one of the Gun


I am so pleased to have got the paint on.

Hope you like

Derek