Academy 13230 - Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer Late

Mike Kryza
A very fine kit! - You'll have a lot of fun! 🙂

John Van Kooten
Thanks Mike! 🙂 I do hope I will enjoy this one but I'm pretty sure indeed I will 👍

Mike Kryza
Btw John, there is no need for using the friuls. Lay them aside for another 38(t).
I've build the JgPz OOB, only adding the wire to the Notek-Light.
The best result you get in closing the tracks is behind the "Schürzen". Have a look. 😉
Jagdpanzer 38(t) "Hetzer" (late) | Album by tigermike

John Van Kooten
Thanks for the tip, Mike! Much appreciated! 👍

The included link & length tracks actually do look good, don't they? 🙂 Especially now that I see them on your Hetzer. Great job by the way! It looks really good! 👍 👍

I am going to do exactly what you said and save the Friuls for a kit that does really need them 👍 Thanks again! 🙂

Mike Kryza
No problem 🙂 - Sometimes I can give some hints, but not ever. 🙂

Jan Hazes
Hetzer...nice tank 🙂

John Van Kooten
Yeah! The Hetzer is a little Devil😉 A great small piece of machinery! 👍

Jan Hazes
Will you do the Overloon camo scheme or the kit version?

John Van Kooten
I am considering it, yes 🙂 I like that pattern on the Overloon Hetzer very much, maybe even more so than the ambush pattern.

As a side note for those that don't know: the Hetzer at Overloon is actually a post-war G-13 made to look like a Hetzer. As are most of the Hetzer in musea around the World, including the ones in Saumur, Munster, Sinsheim and the Bastogne War Museum. There are VERY few original Hetzers left.
Up until fairly recently the one in Overloon and Saumur used to have the tell-tale 4-holed idler wheel. So it was easy to identify as a G-13. They have since then replaced that 4-holed idler wheel with correct 8-holed ones.