ORIGINAL: thecommander
ORIGINAL: ausf
I just bought one to gut for a donor (Gear box and metal tracks are going in/on a StuG and the electronics in a Trump T-34).
PM me where you want it.
Hi Ausf,
I hope you mean you bought a Stug III for the gearboxes not a Pzr III. Pzr III TUs will not fit into a Stug. They are too tall. Stug TUs are low profile. FYI Bob
Whew, you scared me there Bob.
I just checked and they are identical and fit. It never dawned on me that HL would make two different gearboxes for such similar tanks, I really figured they were the same in all of their tanks. This was the metal upgrade from Matomart, not aftermarket and fortunately for me, they are the same frame, just metal gears.
I originally bought a StuG to see what HL tanks were like and loved it, but the plastic tracks kept breaking, so I wanted to get metal. I didn't want the metal tracks with the nylon gears, so by the time I bought gearboxes and tracks and sprocket I was already near the price of a Matomart metal upgrade. Since I have a static Trumpeter T-34/76 I want to convert, it made sense to get a Pz III so I'd have turret traverse and elevation as well as the rest for that and metal parts for the StuG. The Pz III body will eventually be a burned out hulk battlefield decoration and I have spare plastic links and wheels for add on armor.