Middle East Wars mod (MEW)

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Zimmerit and remote MG and Safat-breda 12.7mm MG

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Anothzr view of sale type as #1 in the Last post p2
Late war model with full plate right side and bolts driver side, gun travel stand, flat screen MG but no Breda Safat HMG for the commander

Füll 80 mm armor on the right, bolted plate on the drivers side, flat shield

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Can you help me id the sub type seen here, I know they only received ausf G but there look to be some sub types
They got 6 Spanish stuff IIIG , one Romanian and 12 Czech stuff IIIG (sipri database)
I also read the had 28 stugs

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WIP here is the new stug in game

For now i have three stugs models

This is number two with the spare wheels and the details from the captures Syrian stug III ausf G in Latrun Museum

All details are photos resized, color removed and placed on their original setting with the help of a blueprint

Texture has been upgraded from 512*512 to 1024*1024 to allow for more details

The paint job will come when all the metal works Is done!

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Had trouble with the Stug had to revert to an earlier version but it has new RL tracks and a coax MG! ( Unlikely that the syrians had those , no pic evidence so far) And remote MG and Safat 12.7*8.1mm HMG

WIP 3.7 MEW mod :

https://www.mediafire.com/file/4rxglozl ... .7.7z/file

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Two views of test firing

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Stug III ausf G version 2 : bolted armour

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Syrian Stug III G with correct Breda Safat 12.7x8.1mm MG and shieldZimmerit waffle coating

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The RL one should have either the Rundumfeuer MG (remove MG V shield) and Breda Safat or the flat shield MG and no Breda Safat (at least from the photos and parade video I found)

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top side view

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here it is in game

notice the Breda Safat and its shield

note that it is still unpainted! this is just the metal details

It will come most likely in a patch for the 3.7 mod version

Or maybe I'll wait and do the three stugs version

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ok Breda Safat stand and shield done

added a guard in front of the driver's viewport too, been nagging me for a bit !

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rundumfeuerMG

now to understand why it crashes again in game saying faces not triangulated...

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Still no go on the latest, filled holes and triangulated but something s amiss still
Reverted to an earlier version, here in game with plain green paint still needs the AO map baked in though

Might just use this one for the wip version of the mod

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texturing and uv mapping

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Got lighter wheels from dpabramst77 on discord which I slightly modified, then redid the "tower" and put in a new lighter hatch so now we're at 800kb instead of 1.93 mb!

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Great progress. Excellent work, mate, really.

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Yeah but still got the gun above the model problem in-game and can fathom why

In the meantime reworked the Spanish StuG

Added a drum magazine to the mg42

Removed some stuff, then had to move the gun again...

Now will have to do a new uv map I'm afraid

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Now trying to set up the Rundumfeuer MG as a separate weapon

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making a MG-34 that was sorely needed!

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Mg34 - my own model

Rundumfeuer MG34 - my own model

Rundumfeuer MG42 -model is a modified stock AB2 Finnish StuG

All textures are from real life examples.

They are set as stand alone weapons like the PKM is, so will be able to be added to more units seamlessly

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So some StuG had both a remote operated MG (MG34) with 50 rounds that could be used when buttoned, full rotation and range of 1-12 degrees in elevation with a 3x scope with a 8° field of view

And a point defence weapon aka grenade launcher forward of it