Hi Charles, thanks for that info. I still want one as my allied armor is severely lacking in strength. As soon as I get the track tensioners all made for these Pz IIIs
I'm going to set them aside both to take a break from them and to fully decide how I want to finish them; Still haven't decided if the 2nd Stu hull will be
a StuG or StuH....I wanted a StuH late type but lately I've been waffling... I might even scrap the SPG idea and go with a flak or recovery version. I actually probably
have enough parts to build 2 more so perhaps I'll make them all but 7 models at once is a stretch even for me... and there are are parts I really would not look forward
to making more of. Even though I'll take a break mostly I will go back in to work on odd common parts as the mood strikes.

This thread is so old now I want to clarify a couple of points. I'm working of 5 models which includes my original StuG from mmany years ago. I didn't cast the track links.
I believe all of these were from Thomas Wittgrebe who initially had them cast for him while he had his business years ago; I did clean them up( no small job in itself)
however and make a fixture to drill them which is the most boring , tedious task of all; I did assemble the tracks I drilled.( two of the models have tracks by Geisswerk
in Germany) I did not cast 4 of the five sets of road wheels (I did do the set on my original StuG.) nor did I cast the idler wheels but did machine all of these parts.
There were miscellaneous hull lower plates and upper hull castings for the turreted tanks I did not cast and the upper for the SIG 33 as it stands now was built by
Thomas, it was his own pet project he decided to sell. Everything else including sprockets, sprocket bodies, final drive assemblies, torsion bars, internal structures,
tires, bearings I made. I don't have blueprints but rather I make sketches as I go drawing on books, photos and whatever info I have obtained first hand, from the
'net and others' work. For the parts I had that weren't my own construction it was a matter of collecting parts over the years from here and there. What prompted
me to start this was the fear that I'd begin to loose parts. At the end of this project I plan to attempt to sell off all my surplus parts for Pz IIIs but not
my fixtures, and I've made quite a few or the bags of track castings that remain.

Jerry