I used to build models, and recently got into it again.

This is a Tamiya T-34/76. Set up as it would have been fairly early in the war.

Very nice. The weathered snow camouflage is very well done!

Wow, very cool. If you put it in the proper background you wouldn't know it's a model

Lot of nice touches, looks like you had a lot of fun with that.

I like that. Are you a diorama guy? Because that is screaming for one. Nice work, looks like it was fun.

Nice John!

That looks great nice job on the weathering

Very nice!

Very nice!

During final exams season in my University years, I used to build and paint small armor, trucks and jeeps in between exams, to clear my head.

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Well done Sir!. Well done...

I have looked at this several times. Really well done.

Seeing this come out of a snow storm would have made a miserable day even worse for a group of German soldiers.

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I have looked at this several times. Really well done.

Seeing this come out of a snow storm would have made a miserable day even worse for a group of German soldiers.

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Nice! I did 1/35 WW2 armor models in high school and college. Mainly German and American, with a smattering of others.

With the cupola on the turret, wouldn't that be the later version of the T-34/76? (From late 1943 onwards.)

Early war (1940-1942ish) T34/76s had a single large blocky hatch on top of the turret. Mid war (1942ish-1943) 34/76s had dual "Mickey Mouse" ear hatches. The mid-to-late war (Fall 1943+) 34/76s - aka the 34/76E - had the lone "Mickey Mouse" hatch plus the commander's cupola like yours.

Very nice work! I always worked in 1/72 scale. I really like your "rust" weathering under the viewing port!

I think you are right about the cupola. 1943.

Excellent work. Are you going to make it look as if it is firing? (I saw in another thread where that had been done.)

flashguy

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Excellent work. Are you going to make it look as if it is firing? (I saw in another thread where that had been done.)

flashguy

Here's one:

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Here's the opposition (not mine, but on a group page I belong to)

Very cool. Would you know what vehicle that is?

That's a Marder III self-propelled anti-tank gun. (Aka Panzerjäger 38(t) für 7.62 cm PaK 36(r) aka Sd.Kfz. 139)

Consists of a Soviet 7.62cm AT gun, rechambered to the German 7.5cm PaK 40 round, mounted on top of a modified Czech Panzer 38(t) chassis. The Germans basically combined together captured foreign equipment to fill a stopgap need for a mobile tank destroyer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marder_III

(Edit: This was in response to your deleted post, joel...)

There were 3 different "Marder III" tank destroyers. They all used the same basic concept of a 7.5cm AT gun on a 38(t) chassis, but the configurations varied.

The model you inquired about is the earliest one (plain "Marder III"), as described above.

Your other photo is the next iteration, the Marder III Ausf. H, which was a German PaK 40 on a 38(t) chassis, with a beefed up fighting compartment:


There was also the later Marder III Ausf. M, which was also a PaK 40 on a 38(t), but with an even better fighting compartment, set further back on the chassis: