1:18 Jagdpanzer IV/70 Lang

gary1930 · Post by **gary1930** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:35 pm

Here are a couple shots of a 1:18 Jagdpanzer IV/70 Lang conversion in progress.

The white parts are .080 thick sheet styrene. The barrel is a 3/8" hardwood dowel tapered, and the mantlett and pig's snout are resin castings from masters made from Bondo.

For research I used the Tamiya 1/35 kit and the book Jagdpanzer in the Tanks in Detail series.

problemchild · Post by **problemchild** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:03 pm

Great job lang version is by far the best you have done a great job.I have built one of these in 1/6 it's big never finished it yet.The 2 front road wheels on each side of your tank will have to be reworked I believe they were solid wheel to handle wieght of barrel.If you decide to cast barrel and mantle I would be interested.

zonetoys · Post by **zonetoys** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:42 pm

WOW!

This is starting to look good!
I like the casting job! Any chance you will offer the castings after you are done? I have an extra IV's I might like to do this to!
Nice!!!!

7thva_hunter · Post by **7thva_hunter** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:57 pm

good job.I need a 123 step thing how you guy do some thing like that.

gary1930 · Post by **gary1930** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:59 pm

zonetoys wrote: I like the casting job! Any chance you will offer the castings after you are done?

Yes, I can do that. But I'm not happy with the first versions and I will re-do the masters. When you see I have posted the final version, shoot me a PM as I am new here and not permitted to post in the buy/sell section.

immeww2 · Post by **immeww2** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:29 pm

flpickupman · Post by **flpickupman** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:24 am

I did a little poking around, and discovered some interesting photos. It appears that there was at least one Lang with just one solid road wheel, and some that had no solid road wheels. I of course included a nice photo of the two solid-wheel configuration for reference.

steelbonnet · Post by **steelbonnet** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:30 am

Gary,

WOW mate this is going to be fantastic once done

She`s certainly taken shape & looks excellent to me even in this WIP state.

Flpickupman,
Sweet photos of the lang mate.

Ja
Steel Bonnet

MajorHoover · Post by **MajorHoover** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:50 pm

Really great work!! I am amazed at the customizing skills you guys have!!

scope uk · Post by **scope uk** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:32 pm

COOL great work mate!