Pz III command tank

I finished a third panzer III intended for the 1943 setting. The tank model is by Waffenkammer and the commander figure by Empress. I left out the side skirts around the turret on this one, but added some of the hull skirts, which is the opposite of what I did with the other two tanks. I imagine that the commander may have benefited from better vision (the skirts obscured the view quite a bit). I still have the hull skirts for the other two tanks. I might go back and add them at some point, but its not a priority…

The side skirts and the rails on which they are attached are very well made on the Waffenkammer model. It was quite easy to cut the skirts up into smaller pieces and hang them on the rails, pretty much as they would have done in real life. In 1943 in particular these skirts came off all the time because the attachements werent very good. As a comparison, the way this is modelled on the old Warlord resin pzIV, which I did recently, makes it impossible to model loose plates without extensive conversion work.