My Stug conversion

[Sarah Frazer]

Hi Derek,

We are at War & Peace Wed to Fri, so hope to see you and have a chat.


Sarah

[Derek Attree]

Hi Guys
I will be at Ally Palace with my stug on the Welwyn garden city stand which is again this year down by the Rose window.
I will be there for all 3 days.
Come and say hello... Thanks

Derek

[Sarah Frazer]

Hi Derek,

I hope to be there on Saturday, I'll pop by for a chat. I'll be on the look out for a CNC milling machine as well.


Best wishes,

Sarah

[Tim Bowman]

Hi Derek

Beautiful! Enjoy every post of yours. You should be very proud of your finished Stug. Thanks for sharing this project every step of the way.

Kind regards
Tim

[Derek Attree]

Hi Guys
After a year it seemed to be time to get back to the Stug,
One of the issues I had was the gun swivel was to difficult to control so I
have rewired that to the elevation side of the control so I can use the micro switches to limit the movement.



The next picture show the electrics installed at the rear of the stug.



As you can see I have a simple lift off rear deck and everything is under it.
the roof is bolted down and is a pain to take off I am going to make some changes to this to make it quick release.

Nice to be back posting

Derek

[Tim Bowman]

Hi Derek

Nice to have you back.

Kind regards
Tim

[Robert E Morey]

Hi Derek,
I agree with Tim, nice to see more of the Stug! Like Pauls JT conversion yours a one of kind masterpiece! The gun traverse is a marvel. Beautiful work, Bob

[Derek Attree]

Hi Guys
Ready for the open day I have been busy finishing off the paint work and cammo
so it will have its first public showing in this form tomorrow.
I will hope to get some photos of the finished thing at the open day and post them here next week.

Derek

[Derek Attree]

Hi Guys
As promised some photos of my stug at the open day in its finished camo.










Nearly all done ready to start on the Comet

Derek

[simon_manning]

i had a good look at the open day derek, very nice indeed, it is in its own catagory as a build, an outstanding model wish i had one. regards simon manning.

[Tim Bowman]

Hi Derek

Excellent photos. Thank you for sharing. As Simon said, in a category by itself.

best regards
Tim

[Nick Farrugia]

Hello Derek
It,s good to see it with its camo on very nice ,congratulations on a superb build
regards
nick

[Derek Attree]

Hi Guys
I am going to be at Ally Palace with the Stug again this year I will be down by the
Rose window end as last year.
One of the things I get asked a lot is what was the tank like before
the conversion so I am building the turret and the upper hull as a
side display.
I am also going to leave it unpainted so people can see the materials used and
how the models are put together.
I started today and built the hull sections and the deck but found the turret will need a lot of fitting to get it together.
The rear panel seems to be over bent. Is that something others have found ?
I am sure I can sort it. This will be out of the box build only.


Derek

[Adrian Harris]

The Panzer III turret will take a long of fiddling to get it all lined up.

Probably best to get every bolt through, even if very loosely, then ease the panels into place and tighten once they are aligned.

The Panzer III I purchased second hand had had one of the lower mounting holes extended by around 1/4", in order to the screws to line up with the hole in the base plate.

Adrian.

[leesellars]

Hello Chaps

I have built 4 now and none of the turrets fitted correctly first time alot of new holes and redrilling and Tapping.

Lee