"Marder III Ausf M" Topic

Picked up a 1/72 plastic kit of the Marder III Ausf M from UM out of Ukraine. I have a few of their kits. They can be fiddly and at times I curse them as I make them, but I'm never unhappy with the final result. With the PSC Pz38t sets you can make up the Sdkfz 139 and Ausf H versions of the Marder III, so being a tragic completist I now have all three versions.

Here is the UM kit next to the PSC Ausf H version. Both have crews from AB Figures.

Great modeling and painting!

Jim

Great work!

I have the Plastic Soldier company version – good little kits too

Very nice work, TP.

Was it UM that made the T-26 kits? I built 10 of them, what a nightmare. Still, not as bad as Airfix Churchills.

WELL DONE! Thank you for sharing!

Excellent work, Tactical Painter!

Fabulous work!

Was it UM that made the T-26 kits? I built 10 of them, what a nightmare. Still, not as bad as Airfix Churchills.

UM cover a lot of Russian armour, so could well have been. The knack with the Airfix Churchill is to know the bogey wheels are spaced on the sprue to match the chassis. So glue them on, before cutting from the sprue, which makes the whole job a lot easier (I wish I knew this when I was ten years old!).

Recently made their bridgelayer – the bridge itself is a new tool but the rest is the old Churchill.

The Churchill kits I got had studs in places where there weren't supposed to be any, places where you couldn't fit a hobby knife. And the treads were inflexible and unforgiving, most of mine have staples hidden under the mudflaps to make them fit.

I have also used the PSC kit as a basis for scratch building a Grille for a Normandy scenario – not completely accurate but certainly good enough to game with!