Rapid Fire! Eastern Front in 20mm - The Panzer III M at Kursk

A column of PzIII M passes on the Igor Akinfeev mill on the way to the Kursk bulge, intending to finish the Red Army in that famosu pincer movement. 

The M version is one of the last variants of the PzIII. For modellers it has as differences from the J version a deep-wading exhaust, Schurzen side-armour panels and the headlights placed on the fenders. The command PzIII here (with star antenna) was turned into a J version with the headlights reposioned on the front hull and the deep-wading exhaust taken out. 

The models are the 3d prints from my friend Mário Laranja with its usual quality. This blotched camouflage with red numbers is taken from the Squadron Signal book on the Panzer III. 

Another group of PzIII M was painted as in the cover of the Squadron Signal book. 

 I asked my friend to print a few with open hatches on the command turret for some figures from Hasegawa and PSC to be inserted there. Only the antenna insertion was replaced by EverGreen tubing in order to hold more firmly the antenna. 

Next; the PzIII M of the Hermann Goring Panzer Division in Sicily.