I have a Dragon Stug lllG in the mail and was wondering about the paint scheme. I saw this and was checking to see if the initial lllG was in Dunkelgrau.
" The final model of the iconic Sturmgeschütz III was the Ausfürung G, which began production in December 1942. The most noticeable upgrades to the StuG III Ausf. G was a newly designed commander’s cupola that provided all-around viewports and an enlarged armored casemate that extended over the pannier sides of the hull, providing the StuG crew with a more spacious fighting compartment. Early StuG III Ausf. Gs were armed with the powerful long barrelled 7.5cm StuK 40/L48 cannon, capable of knocking out Russian T-34s and KV-1s at long range, and protected by 50mm of armor reinforced with additional 30mm armor plates bolted on top, for a total armor thickness of 80mm that provided excellent protection from the 76.2mm cannon of Russian tanks. Lastly, while in late 1942 Stug IIIs were leaving the assembly firms painted in the second Tropical camouflage scheme, photographic evidence confirms that some of the initial production StuG III Gs left the assembly firms painted in RAL 7021 Dunkelgrau…the iconic dark grey of early war German armor! Some of these grey Stug III Ausf. Gs were issued to none other than the Heer’s elite unit, Infanterie-Division (Motorized) Grossdeutschland , when it participated in Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein’s brilliant counteroffensive during the Third Battle of Kharkov from February - March 1943."
Here is one in Dunkelgrau.
The image above was stated it was from a Luftwaffe unit. Did GD also have the gray initial Stug lllG’s as stated in the paragraph or is this just folk lore?
