Hi guys.
After reading some articles about Stugs and Stuhs im after some sage advice from those who know their stuhs.I want to make one with Zimmerit on and Alkett type return rollers and the fender supports for this version,Id like to make a Stuh with the 105 with the muzzle break with side flange for want of a better word.I read the Das werk kit is just a repop of the Dragon kit.Anybody have some recommendations kit wise?,Im guessing i will have to get some aftermarket goodies for the gun etc.
Thanks in advance guys
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AFV Club has the late model leFH18/40 10,5cm. That model has the muzzle brake (MB). I do’n’t know of gun barrels with the MB.
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Hello Richard,
I can tell you that your choices are as follows: ( I may leave one out, doing this from memory) Just remember the Stuh 42’s with the muzzle break were the early models. The muzzle break was deleted in the late models.
- The Older Dragon kit
- The Tamiya Stug III G Fruhe kit. It does not show it on the box or mention it. But the parts are there in the kit and the instructions show the 105 barrel with the muzzle break.
- Takom makes both, I hope I remember this right, an early and a late version.
- And as you know the Das Werk kit is a repop of the Dragon kit.
Hope this helps in some way.
Best,
Walter
Lost in Ohio
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Hi Walter.Thanks for responding.Im hoping to do a Stuh in Italy in 1944.I saw a couple of Panzermeisters builds on youtube and seems a lot of the kits arent great accuracy wise.Im not one for every detail but seems later ones had interlocking armour plates etc.Miniart do late ones in 72nd but id like 1.35th.Maybe i can contact Panzermeister and see what he thinks.The Dragon kits here in U.K go for silly prices for older kits.
The quest continues.
All the best from Richard
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Et al-
The muzzle device on a cannon barrel typically is a BRAKE. Kindly.
It retards the motion of the barrel, hence the spelling. The fit of the lock ring and clearance ring (inside the brake) ensure that the round has a tolerance fit passing through, and the gas “works” the :
Work (math)
W = F x s (work equals force x displacement)
F= m x a (force equals mass x acceleration)
QED (substituting for Force)
W = m x a x s
To go one further, the propellant gasses have momentum:
p = m x v
This momentum (of the gasses) is what works the flanges (here shown as two baffles). The peak pressure of the 155mm is ~375 MPa. The gas leaving the muzzle is moving at 1,569 m/sec. More than enough to do the “work”.
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Richard,
Sorry for the half information. Long day at work. But Miniart also does 3 that I remembered.
- 35355 which is a late version . No muzzle break. Too late for Italy I believe,
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- Early May-June 43 has muzzle break
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- Mid. Jul- Oct 43 Has muzzle break
All are in 35 scale and should be nice kits.
Good Luck!
Best,
Walter
Lost in Ohio
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Many thanks Walter
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Details man!?
Great work, finding it!
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