Latest styrene addiction buys

Alan Rush
A little bit of everything. Have fun!

M.Julian Marles
The church window and fountain kit went together in about ten minutes...wish I could say that for the rest of my kits! Still pretty good little kits after all these years - in fact the Italeri line of diorama accesory ruins is a styrene "re box" of Verlinden's plaster offerings, back when he had a very close relationship with Italeri. or Italaeri as it was known back then!

Gábor Bélik
That leopard is a great kit compared to the hobbyboss one.

M.Julian Marles
Good to know! It was on the discount table for $24!

Gábor Bélik
That was a bargain.

M.Julian Marles
Yeh, I was like "Ugh ..I can't turn this down!" ...I put back the M3 Honey instead!

M.Julian Marles
I like the Hetzer commander crouching on the outside...guess he's ready to jump if they miss? 😛

Gábor Bélik
He would not be a good or brave commander if he do that. 🙂 I had that kit (from ebay) but I sold it when I saw the semi link track I got a trumpeter starr version instead.

M.Julian Marles
I have some indy links from the old Kirin kit..hoping they fit!

M.Julian Marles
I cleaned up all the road signs and removed a bunch of pin marks and seams....added some small details for enhancement. I added some compressed styrofoam in the oil drums to make them look like they are filled with concrete. Oddly enough the sign is the wrong way round for the assigned decals - I had to chop it and put it back on the correct way!

Michael Razz
any progress on the hetzer?

M.Julian Marles
well. I opened the sprue bags and chose the decals, ha ha! In all seriousness I bought it because it was half price. The figures are quite good, albeit a little small. Detail is nice, no flash, the link and length tracks look good but I fear will not have the needed sag. I have a destroyed Kirin Grille so I may salvage those links. I hope to build it soon..about halfway through my SdkFz 251/9 dio and then probably onto this. It looks like an easy build (jinx!) - not too many sprues, and flash free parts. If the Kirin links don't work I will use them as extra armour 😉

M.Julian Marles
..oh, and it comes with a really neat adhesive mask for the ambush scheme! How cool is that? 🙂

Holger Kranich
I see you like the Academy Hetzer?;)

Michael Razz
Very Cool,any ideas allready for the colours on the "HETZER"??

M.Julian Marles
Holger - lol, yes...although I can't speak to it's accuracy! Rascar, as for colours - either dark yellow or ambush colours if I am brave enough to tackle that paint mask! It's very um.."involved"! o_0

Mike Kryza
Hi Julian, the Academy kit is a good choice. You need no aftermarket stuff... The tracks fit very well and the masks are very good too. And it's not difficult! Have a look on my JgdPz. 🙂

M.Julian Marles
Will do, thanks! Yes the kit seems really nice, and the mask is a great bonus! I just bought a bunch of stuff from "Think hobbies!"..they have a great sale on...lol 😉