While the Sturmgeschütz III was Germany's most-produced fully tracked armoured fighting vehicle during World War II, the Sturmgeschütz IV was its very closely related brother in the later part of the war. The Sturmgeschütz IV was the result of Krupp’s effort to meet the requirement for another assault gun variant.

For those modelers wishing to add more detail to their braille scale Stug IVs, Czech photo etch (PE) manufacturer Hauler produces an outstanding set for the popular Revell Sturmgeschütz IV kit. Manufactured by Jan Sobotka, this package comes with one fret (4 1/8” x 2 3/16”) that will bring your Sturmgeschütz IV to the next level.

As you can see from the photos, the PE set is well etched and should take very little clean up and bending to prepare the parts for the Sturmgeschütz IV (most of the PE parts could probably work for Panzerkampfwagen IVs and IIIs as well, especially the schürzen). If you have experience with small scale and PE, this set will be perfect; if not, it would be a good starter set as the schürzen are relatively large. This PE set will take your Sturmgeschütz IV to the next level and make it stand out.

Profuse thanks to Hauler and Brengun and IPMS-USA for providing the review sample.