Building three different Marders in parallel, I now also finished the Marder III M with the German 75mm PaK and the chassis of the Panzer 38(t) specially adapted for self propelled guns. The kit is from Tamiya, with Aber PE added. I also added three injection moulded figures from Miniart.

One issue with all the kits of the different Marders is the thickness of the side walls. The real ones were quite thin, only designed to protect from shrapnel and small arms’ fire, so the replicated walls are way too thick. There are some PE walls available, but I liked to preserve the nicely detailed outer side. So I cut the wall sections from the kit apart, and carefully sanded down the individual parts to scale thickness. One benefit of this is getting rid of sink marks, but all the interior detail has to be added back by either using PE parts or scratch building with styrene profils and nuts.

As the other Marder III builds, the process was greatly assisted by the respective volumes from the Nuts & Bolts publication series.