The Panzer III Digital Library - Mid-War Panzer 200521

[ultravanillasmurf]

Photobucket has taken the pictures away....

[Rubicon Models]

Photobucket has taken the pictures away....

Photobucket sometimes do that, we have lots of issues with them.  Unfortunately, too many photos and links using them, so cannot switch to another provider without redoing all the links across the internet!   

[Rubicon Models]

Last of the Panzer III variants...

The Panzer III Ausf N was an infantry support tank, armed with a short-barrelled 7.5cm KwK 37 L/24 gun. A total of 614 were produced or re-equipped from 1942 and 1943. The Ausf N was recognisable by its short-barrelled gun and the lack of spaced armour on the mantlet. Many of the later Ausf N was fitted with a new cupola with thicker armour and a single hatch in place of the earlier split-hatch design. Ausf N was also given side skirts for greater protection from March 1943.

In the field, the Ausf N was used to provide close support for the Tigers (each heavy tank company had 10 Ausf Ns to nine Tigers), as the smaller vehicle was more agile at close quarters, whereas the Tiger was rather slow and vulnerable. The Ausf N was also used in the panzer regiments of the panzer divisions. In mid-1943, during the Kursk Offensive, German panzer units were equipped with 155 Panzer III Ausf N.



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[Rubicon Models]

*** Our image host Photobucket is still stuck in the void - will update you with images once they are back online!

Our Panzer III project is almost at the end... still some minor issues that needed to be resolved, plus the documentation work for the instruction manuals and decal sheets. There will be THREE item codes as follow:

Early War - Ausf E, Ausf F (3 variants), and Ausf G (3 variants) - Total 7.

Mid-War - Ausf H (2 variants), Ausf J (2 variants), Ausf L (3 variants), Ausf M, Flammpanzer Ausf M, and Ausf N (2 variants) - Total 11.

Command & Communications - Ausf E, Ausf H, and Ausf J/L - Total 3.

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[Rubicon Models]

Seems like we had missed one of the Panzer III Ausf J variants from our post yesterday.  Thanks to Andy Oertig on Facebook, we now have 22 variants from our upcoming Panzer III kits.

The missing variant is an Ausf J with the 5cm Kwk L/60 gun. They were fielded by the 3rd, 16th, 29th & 60th Motorized Infantry Divisions as well as the 5th SS "Wiking Division".

[jamesvalentine]

Can't you add them as attachments

[Rubicon Models]

Can't you add them as attachments

In a way, we can.  But we use Photobucket (PB) so that we can using the same image across the internet for "standardisation" and control purposes.

PB is still down after an unexpected hardware breakdown... 4 days now!  We are not impressed but we are much better off for people who actually use PB for business and online store purposes!

 

[jamesvalentine]

I think the unreliability and astronomical cost and how they don't like people viewing images is why most people jumped ship from them.
I get the images from Facebook as UselessBucket doesn't let you view them any bigger than a postage stamps with 1/4 of the image as their logo.
Horrible.

[Rubicon Models]

These are the missing images that we had posted last year just before Christmas showing all the possible "documented" variants you can build from our new Panzer III kits.





















After posting on Facebook, someone had pointed out we are missing a very important variant for the Ausf J that was equipped with a 5cm KwK L/60 gun.  We now have a total of 22 variants from the 3 kits...



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[Rubicon Models]

With so many early and mid-war Panzer IIIs, it is hard not to include some early war Panzer crew!

The initial release will be in pewter but we are looking into doing them in plastic when we have the spare time to pick up the task later in the year.



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[ripley]

WOW ! that's going to be an amazing trio of kits . Plus the early war crew will be very handy . I think the Panzer Berets need a bit of tweaking though , mind you I do realize this is just a CAD test shot ...



The real thing was rather larger and floppy , a little like the Polish Para beret .
I'm also hoping you'll make a figure set that can be used in the open turret side hatches ( Pzr III & IV ), maybe with a couple of head options , ( beret , side cap , late war peak cap )  .

[Jaeger]

Those Panzerkampfwagen IIIs look magnificent!

[Rubicon Models]

The problem with the idler wheel back in late November last year was fixed, but we did not post the update due to issues with Photobucket. 

No more guessing on what we are going to do. We basically replaced the part with a new section on the mould.

There are some minor delays but the release schedule should not be impacted big time.  Here it is...




Enjoy!

[H0ffmn]

Looks good. I can't wait for it to hit the shelves

[ripley]

Looks perfect . Job well done on rectifying  the error .