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Modeller Build Logs
Tristar 1/35 scale Marder III Ausf H |
| By Mike Bishop | | Started: | Jun 5, 2007 | | Updated: | Nov 12, 2007 |
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I must confess that I have not really been interested in this tank over the many years. My mind was set back in the 1970/80s with the memory of the old Italieri kit. I even went as far as to build an Ausf M from that kit as it was the one I really wanted. That all changed when the DML kit was released a few months back. The detail added was light years above the older Ausf H kit. Then Tristar announced the kit of the Ausf H which made one ponder....why. Thanks to the folks on this site and at PMMS, the reason why was soon answered. After reading the reviews of the DML kit and those of the Tristar kit I decided to sell the DML kit.
Enter Paul Owen. He asked on this site if anyone would like to build this kit for a blog to which I posted, along with ,that I wanted the chance. Paul decided to make the choice and it would be me. Thanks Paul. Anyway, I decided to get a few extra things for the kit because I'm never happy it seems if I don't update something...no matter how good the kit would be. This one is very good indeed. |
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| Main gun and FuG radio | Jul 22, 2007 |
Tonight I will focus on two areas of the kit. The main gun and the kit radio. Both items are nice right out of the box. However one can always add cool stuff to make the model better. In this case I used the Aber 7.5cm gun to replace the kit version. I must confess that after using one of these guns on the Marder M, I most likely will never use the plastic part again. The muzzle break alone is the main reason. When you see this item up close that is all that needs to be said.
The gun tube was installed after the cradle was built. The instructions are strait forward but hey who needs that, right. After all that is what reference books are for. The rest of the breach and gun mount was completed and set aside for paint.
Next is the radio and the mount. The kit instructions tell us to mount the radio sets over the center of the universal joint. While this might look right and would be correct for the Gun Tank 38(t), Reference says otherwise. The Radio was mounted on the right side of the upper hull shield, Just like the Marder III M. See the picture that shows the correct location of the radio mount. I used the kit radio, made new frames and installed it to the shield side. I will run wires to the head phones after the detail has been added. In the next installment I will be working on the tools and the tool holders.
Thanks for reading,
Mike
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