June 3, 2024
History: The two rear road wheels and the idler wheel on the right Hetzer's side were damaged by an explosion. The repairmen replaced the idler wheel and one road wheel with wheels modified for a later Hetzer (this Hetzer is early). One damaged wheel was left because the repair team didn't have enough wheels.
For this history, I rebuilt the road wheel - I cut off the bolts and replaced them with 16 rivets.
I made the new idler wheel with four holes from scratch. For this, I used a 0.3 mm plastic sheet. The difficulty was that each wheel disk of a new revision was shaped like a cone. Each disk I made from double layers of plastic.
The new wheels will be painted with red primer.