Dragon Armor 1/72 German Stug.III AUSF.G Early Pro with Schurzen Side Armour Totenkopf' Kursk 1943 (60336)

Dragon Armor 1/72 German Stug.III AUSF.G Early Pro with Schurzen Side Armour Totenkopf' Kursk 1943 (60336) | Antics Online

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Dragon are steadily expanding this range of superb models, crafted in plastic for maximum detail definition with some metal parts and finished in authentic camouflage schemes. Tracks are one piece rubber but give a good effect. Nicely boxed - good plastic display box inside a cardboard outer. Model length is about 4 1/2" (115mm) - based on Tiger 1. Most have rotable turrets and a gun that elevates. Fine detail incudes ropes, shackles and tools carried on the chassis, plus smoke dischargers, machine guns and external petrol tanks appropriate for each model. Best of all these models are pre-painted with sharp, accurate and authentic camouflage and realistic weathering.

Dragon Armor 1/72 German Stug.III AUSF.G Early Pro with Schurzen Side Armour Totenkopf' Kursk 1943 (60336)
The Battle of Kursk (Russian: Курская битва) refers to a series of German and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of World War II in July and August 1943. It was the last German blitzkrieg offensive in the east executed by the German forces on a strategic scale during the war, with the hope of another great encirclement of Red Army forces but ended in a large-scale Soviet counteroffensive and strategic victory. The operations, which included the famous battle at Prokhorovka, remain both the largest series of armoured operations and the most costly single day of aerial warfare in history.

The Sturmgeschütz series proved to be very successful and served on all fronts as assault guns and tank destroyers. Although Tigers and Panthers are more well known, assault guns destroyed many more tanks. Because of their low silhouette, Sturmgeschütz IIIs were easy to camouflage and a difficult target. Sturmgeschütz crews were considered to be the elite of the artillery units. Sturmgeschütz units held a very impressive record of tank kills - some 20,000 enemy tanks by the spring of 1944.

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