STURMTIGER

[opposum]

I went to hobby lobby a couple of weeks ago and bought a model kit of the sturmtiger, here are the pictures of my models outcome.

It is a 1/35 scale model and here is what the box looks like:







Here is just one side of the instruction sheet, the entire back is just as cluttered as the front, the round think next to it is a quarter for comparison










Here are the track links........yea, i had to glue each individual track link together after shaving the extra plastic off of each and every one, there were 100 links to each track, oh my god i would rather jump off a building than do that again.










here is the mold sheets for the rest of the tank







and here is my finished product, again I used a quarter in some of the pictures for size comparison



this picture had a glare on the tank


















I did not have the right paint colors so I had to wing it with what I had and thats what it turned out to be.



opposum

[OOZ662]

Is it sad that since playing Company of Heroes, I pronounce the tank name "Teegr?"

Awesome model. I'd say more if my brain were functioning more at the moment. Lack of sleep.

Why does your quarter have a hole (burned?) through it?

[wipass]

Nice work opossum,

I am staggered at the size of those shells.

I found this out  "The main weapon of the Sturmtiger, the 38cm mortar was an impressive weapon. Originally designed as a naval anti-submarine weapon, the mortar was capable of throwing its five foot long, 750 lb, rocket propelled projectile nearly 6 kilometers. The round could penetrate 8.5 feet of steel reinforced concrete. As destructive as the weapon was it was also cumbersome. It took nearly ten minutes to load and a maximum of only fourteen rounds could be carried on board. To relieve the stress of such incredibly heavy recoil, a unique design vented the combustion gases through a sleeve surrounding the barrel. The barrel also employed a heavy counterweight on the front of the barrel to balance it. This gives the Sturmtiger its distinctive snub-nosed appearance. Reloading the Sturmtiger required the entire crew and was accomplished by means of an externally mounted crane and two hatches on the roof of the fighting compartment.

In all, only eighteen Sturmtigers were ever produced. Initially, two vehicles were used in suppressing the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. This is the only time that the Sturmtiger ever fulfilled its intended role of an urban combat stronghold demolisher. They were also used during the Arden offensive in December of 1944 but due to their slow speed they made little account of themselves. One anecdote claimed that a Sturmtiger destroyed four Allied Shermans with a single shell during fighting in 1945. Because of their high fuel consumption, slow speed, and the fact that the war situation had changed for the Germans these fearsome vehicles were of little combat value. Many were abandoned and destroyed by their crews for lack of ammunition or fuel"

[texastc316]

your quarter has a nickel shot out of it 


looks good man. That had to be hell on the recieving end of that mortar.

[Eagler]

the ground pounders in ah could use one of those .. looks like a shore battery on tracks

[doc1kelley]

the ground pounders in ah could use one of those .. looks like a shore battery on tracks

Actually it would be a shore battery killer.

All the Best...

    Jay
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[Cajunn]

Nice Opposum, I see your bored already and the summer's just starting!!

  My friend