This is another great kit from Tamiya and includes 5 figures, although one of whom, the driver in the front, is just half a torso! I like these self-propelled guns because you get all the interior detail as well so you get more bangs for your bucks!
The Germans employed a huge variety of assault and anti-tank destroyers during the Second World War and they were not averse to sourcing foreign made hardware. In this case, the Marder III was a tank destroyer based on the Czechoslovak Panzer 38 (t) chassis with an open top fighting compartment and employing a converted Soviet 7.62 cm Pak 36(r). The reliance on captured guns was considered unsatisfactory and s the Marder III H appeared which used the domestically produced 7.5 cm Pak 4.
At last a dedicated self-propelled gun (SPG) was deemed necessary and produced by BMM and Alkett. This was named the Marder III M. This had a very different layout to the previous Marders. The engine in the middle allowed for more space in the rear fighting compartment which had 10 mm thickness armour plate but still left the crew rather exposed.
Marder III Ms were used on both Eastern and Western fronts mainly in a defensive role.
Good job nice to see a well detailed fighting compartment
Fantastic detail in particular the hedges and the leaves. I do love reading your detailed information.
Thank you E.G.E glad you appreciate the information. So much is generally known about most of the tanks and aircraft I make, but I try to make it as interesting as I can and hopefully it will help other modellers.
Rewarding hobby. Alot of thought and detail gone into it. Even the figures make it realistic to understand what it must have been like back then.
Well done
Thanks Liz, very glad you appreciate it. I think you know how much I love my modelling and how much effort goes into it!
The amount of details on Marder is amazing. You should try to use some photo of a landscape or city for background.
Thanks Bogdan, yes that is a very good idea. I shall look into a landscape or townscape!