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Hi Team

Am I imagining it, or was there a Marder II with a converted Russian 76.2mm gun? I s'pose it doesn't make much difference in practical terms if I use the III. My little force is the winter of '42/'43, and both were in use.


Mike

You're not imagining it - https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/nazi ... der_ii.php

GHQs G112 (Marder III) looks more like it than G116 (Marder II) and has the same gun so I'd use that.

Thanks for that. While I completely missed the point in my post, I thought our hosts had made the II with the 76, but it looks like I misremembered.

Never mind. The III G112 will do nicely (though I prefer how the II looks).

GHQ does not currently make a model of the Marder II based on the Panzer IID chassis. According to the German Tank Encyclopedia, there were 201 of these produced/converted from April 1942 to June 1943.

Since GHQ makes virtually all the other Marder Self-propelled AT guns including the Marder I, 3 versions of the Marder III, and the 7.5 cm armed Marder II, it would be cool if they made this variant as well.

Well... it appears that the chassis that mounts the Pak36(r) isn't the same as the one that the existing Marder II. I figured with was. The 76mms were mounted on the Ausf D chassis with the torsion bar, rather than leaf springs.