Stug iV Tamiya OOB

[tcoat]

Another down a dirty OOB build during big project cool down.

It is a very old kit from 1975 when they were motorized and considered as much toys as anything. The new boxings do not come with the motor or other parts though.

That said it is still beautifully detailed even by today's standard and the molds have held up really well. The commander figure came from my spares box and is about the same vintage since he was originally from a kit I built in the late '60s. He just got a new coat of paint.




Nothing fancy just some simple highlighting and light weathering.

[mustang1989]

Nothing fancy he says..... . Jeez Tony.....you make this look all too easy buddy. Excellent build of an excellen subject.

[hasenpfeffer]

Nice work! Sometimes.. ya just gotta go OOB. and Tamiya. So much less stress, time and money. Looks great. Never built a StuG IV. I suppose in building StuGs I just didn't want to deal with Panzer IV road wheels. LOL It's funny cuz I've built probably 6 or more of the Tamiya Pz IV Ds from the same timeframe. I can see so many equivalent parts on your kit.

[mustang1989]

Mar 10, 2023 22:15:12 GMT -5 hasenpfeffer said:

Nice work! Sometimes.. ya just gotta go OOB. and Tamiya. So much less stress, time and money. Looks great. Never built a StuG IV. I suppose in building StuGs I just didn't want to deal with Panzer IV road wheels. LOL It's funny cuz I've built probably 6 or more of the Tamiya Pz IV Ds from the same timeframe. I can see so many equivalent parts on your kit.

I haven't built any armor subjects but it's really tough for me to build pretty much anything OOB. You're right though....it's alot less time and money. Stress....I dunno bout that in my case. I love a challenge.

[hasenpfeffer]

Mar 10, 2023 22:22:38 GMT -5 mustang1989 said:

Mar 10, 2023 22:15:12 GMT -5 hasenpfeffer said:

Nice work! Sometimes.. ya just gotta go OOB. and Tamiya. So much less stress, time and money. Looks great. Never built a StuG IV. I suppose in building StuGs I just didn't want to deal with Panzer IV road wheels. LOL It's funny cuz I've built probably 6 or more of the Tamiya Pz IV Ds from the same timeframe. I can see so many equivalent parts on your kit.

I haven't built any armor subjects but it's really tough for me to build pretty much anything OOB. You're right though....it's alot less time and money. Stress....I dunno bout that in my case. I love a challenge.

LOL - Well it's time then. You haven't lived until you've built a 1970's Tamiya kit with rubber band tracks.

[mustang1989]

Mar 10, 2023 22:25:03 GMT -5 hasenpfeffer said:

Mar 10, 2023 22:22:38 GMT -5 mustang1989 said:

I haven't built any armor subjects but it's really tough for me to build pretty much anything OOB. You're right though....it's alot less time and money. Stress....I dunno bout that in my case. I love a challenge.

LOL - Well it's time then. You haven't lived until you've built a 1970's Tamiya kit with rubber band tracks.

LOL!!! I think I'd almost HAVE to go AM with the tracks at the very least. lololol

[tcoat]

Mar 10, 2023 22:30:41 GMT -5 mustang1989 said:

Mar 10, 2023 22:25:03 GMT -5 hasenpfeffer said:

LOL - Well it's time then. You haven't lived until you've built a 1970's Tamiya kit with rubber band tracks.

LOL!!! I think I'd almost HAVE to go AM with the tracks at the very least. lololol

I have never found a need to go all AM on most of my armour builds but I am old school and feel even a kit that is low on detail can be made to at least seem to have it with the right paint job. I don't do photoetch and the armour resin aftermarket has never made a penny off me.
Those rubber band tracks get a bad rap these days but in reality many of them can look really good with a little bit of work. 

These are all OOB with only some stowage added to them. Even the figures are the 40+ year old molds from the kits.

Old old OLD Tamyia 


Old(ish) Tamiya



25 year old Trumpeter



15 year old Academy



20 year old Dragon



30 year old Academy kit













Not to say that going all AM is wrong or anything just that it simply is not automatically needed even with these old kits. Of course you could go nuts with them and make them even better but do they always HAVE to be improved?

[Tobi]

I had no idea there are two nice figures in the Stug IV kit from Tamiya.

[tcoat]

Mar 11, 2023 4:10:01 GMT -5 Tobi said:

I had no idea there are two nice figures in the Stug IV kit from Tamiya.

There isn't. The soft capped figure is the kit figure. The commander is from an unknown Tamiya kit I built sometime between 1965 and 1972. The model itself probably succumbed to the Great BB Gun Wars of 1968. I found him in a box of surviving model stuff that my parents  packed up when they moved while I was deployed overseas in the late '70s. Not much survived but he did. 
I should have taken a picture of how he was painted by 10 year old me when I though the German uniforms of WW2 were light grey with bright green caps and the only skin tone paint I had was an almost orange paint by numbers set oil paint. 
He looked like an Umpa Lumpa staring in The Sound Of Music.

[Whiterook]

Great build… older kits Dan be challenging, but you dod wonders with this kit. Awesome stuff! I generally build OOB, so I aprec when I see other do so, as well since you’ve only got what it comes with to make a great model.