![]() ![]() Now, most other manufacturers have standardised on 1/72 and these Airfix are notably smaller.Ĭompared to some more recent offerings, this perhaps isn’t the most accurate StuG III kit or even the best Airfix AFV, but it first appeared at a time when the Syrian army was still using the StuG III operationally! Mine is the Vintage Classics version released in 2018 and featuring the dramatic early box-art by George Schule, though Mr. This slightly odd choice of scale has been maintained by Airfix for most of their military vehicle kits since. Later they were labelled as “ 1/76” scale, though it still seems odd to me that Airfix didn’t just use 1/72 for their military vehicle kits which they were already using for a range of aircraft kits. Originally, these were labelled as “ HO & OO” scale, which matched a number of Airix model railway kits. At that time, there just weren’t many small-scale plastic tank kits. At the time of release, this joined the small but growing number of Airfix 1/76 kits that already included the German Panther, British Churchill and American Sherman. ![]() This Airfix kit was released way back in 1963 – Hell this thing is almost as old as I am (though I suspect it has aged better…). When I got back into small-scale AFV building, this was top of my list. I loved them, especially the Panther, Tiger and SdKfz half-track and 88mm gun but for some reason I never did get round to building the StuG III. Back in the early 1970s, I built just about all of the Airfix 1:76 AFVs. The Airfix StuG III is a piece of unfinished business for me. ![]()
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