Thursday 15 April 2021

Jaded Jagdpanzer - part 1

This very battered Jagdpanzer Kanone arrived from a well-known online auction site a few weeks ago.  It is the old Tamiya 1/48-ish scale motorised model and came to me lacking tracks, gun and one of it's roadwheels.
By sheer fluke I happened to have a gun/mantlet from another Kanone model in my spares box - left over, you may recall, from this conversion.
Tracks were fashioned from packing straps - cut to length and stapled  - secured in place with dollops of PVA.  The missing wheel (fourth from left in the photo above) was replaced by what I believe to be a T-34 wheel.  It's round and of a similar size - job done!

The result ain't pretty but I'm sure paintwork will make it much, much....worse.


9 comments:

Pete. said...

Nice bodging Tim- all in the best traditions.

Cheers,

Pete.

tradgardmastare said...

Jaded jadgpanzer in the night, turned by Tim in to a delight...

Martin Rapier said...

I never even realised you could get one of these in 1/48th. Love the track replacements, very clever.

Tim Gow said...

Pete
Standards must be maintained - at a low level...

Tim Gow said...

tradgardmastare
If even this can move you to verse it's time to get out more!

Tim Gow said...

Martin Rapier
Coming soon-ish to a lawn/patio near you...

Archduke Piccolo said...

I rather like the camo on the original. For replacing lost track, I have discovered the non-slip matting on places upon cupboard shelves, cut to a suitable width and length make very fine AFV tracks. I prefer it to plastic strapping at any rate, after having tried both.

Tim Gow said...

Archduke Piccolo
The original paintwork was interesting but I didn’t fancy trying to replicate it! Non-slip matting is a good idea - I may give it a try.

Archduke Piccolo said...

Here's a couple of examples of my preferred tank track method.
http://archdukepiccolo.blogspot.com/2016/04/scratch-builds-and-extempores.html