Unboxing: Bolt Action Panzer III Zug Plastic Box Set
September 9, 2015 by dignity
We have tanks aplenty for this unboxing as we take a look at a box set of three plastic Panzer III Zug's for Bolt Action. The kit in this box allows you to build the Panzer III as one of four variants.
This plastic tank produced by Italeri also comes in a one vehicle box set if you're not looking to build three. Both the single and trio kits will allow you to build the Panzer III as either the Ausf J, L, M or N variant.
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Which variant of the Panzer III would you choose?
Because it was asked: The pronunciation of “Zug” is nearly the way John did it the first time. “Zug” means “Platoon” and it is pronounced like the double-o in platoon. Besides that the “Z” is pronounced in a different way but i don’t know any english word wich has a similar pronounced letter.
If someone likes to play Pz.III he should go for the early or mid-war types, because in late war the Pz.III was outclassed by nearly every other tank.
Isn’t Zug the German word for ‘train’? In that case the pronunciation in English might be written as ‘tsoog’. Just don’t put too much stress on the consonants.
Unfortunately your right… BUT… in that case it means Platoon. Trust me… I’m a german 😉
Maybe the ts-thing could sound right. But I need to hear it to confirm.
Ha! This is great. I literally LAST NIGHT used some Mk IIIJs with my two Tiger Is in a partial recreation of SPzAbtg 504 in Tunisia (a post-article farewell game on my desert war boards). Just as @johnlyons says, Mark IIIs were often assigned to these schwere Panzerabteilung Tiger battalions as scouts and to fill out the ranks until Tiger production could catch up. And at 8:55 – thanks for the shout-out, and yes . . . the idea that schürzen were ORIGINALLY designed as a counter to shaped charges is kind of a myth. Two pieces of “circumstantial evidence”… Read more »
the 50mm on the Puma is a Medium Anti-Tank gun as is the one on the Pz III.
Great unboxing keep up the good work. I have to wonder why Italeri went with a 4 piece track set up. I have put together 10 of their T-34s which only have 2 pieces and they are just fine. In fact their easy assembly is one of the reason I like them so much. I will have to keep an eye on them. They have to realize that more parts will make them models and more fragile as opposed to robust game pieces.
Nice looking/detailed model would a hacksaw not work with the wheel grove’s closing the gap at the track joins? @johnlyons
Of course, your right, you could quite happily remove the smaller track teeth that cause the slight “misfit” of the track, but to be fair to our most wonderful viewers we try to keep the unboxings a “out off the box” build 🙂
I’m actually tempted to get one of these for my later war Germans simply as a cheaper tank option, points wise. Pretty sure they did actually last the whole war, just not in an upfront roll after the Panzer IV got all it’s upgrades.