[+] Hetzer Release due out Anytime Now

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:51 pm

I saw a 1:48 Marder IIM at WM today. Are there 1:48 Hetzers as well?? I wouldn't buy one but it still looked pretty cool.

I'd be pretty pissed off if I found a 1:48 Hetzer before finding the 1:32 Hetzer.

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:36 pm

1:48 scale Marder?? Any pics? That's the first I've heard of one anywhere around here or on Area21.

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:45 am

1:48 scale Marder?? Any pics?

I'd be interested in seeing that one too. I would probably get one, just because I have both of the Corgi 1:50 scale French Village Dioramas from the DDay sets, and the Marder would go well with those. Plus, they are cheap... the Panzer IV and Wirble I got in this scale ran me all of about $6 each.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:19 pm

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:23 pm

Sorry gang no pics. I can't even locate a pic online... weird. Someday I will upgrade to a camera phone. I believe it was still there today but I was in Hetzer locating mode. Didn't find one either.

MG-42 · Post by **MG-42** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:48 pm

MG-42 wrote:[+] > You guys can Whine about the Hetzer not having an MG w/o armored / shield all you want to ,.. but "I'll take it and like it" , "improvise & adapt" ,.. "like the simple ol' soldier I am". * + =

Mitch v MG

VMF115 wrote:I agree with Mg-42 "improvise & adapt" this is the only way to survive in this hobby rather it be 1/18 or 1/32.

Mitch v MG

conteaddict · Post by **conteaddict** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:05 am

ha my tru still has ten of those dang long toms and the wallmart by me seems to only want to keep stocking 38ts lol

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:36 am

I've found Hetzers at two of my local Wal Marts, oddly enough. They showed up less than a week after I ordered the one pictured earlier in this thread

I think I'll get another and do my own repaint on it

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:31 pm

My TRU just did it's inventory and reset a week or so ago and are getting in two trucks tonight and Saturday night. I will be there tomorrow AM and I am hoping they will have a Hetzer because I am sick of waiting and waiting.

Cabe · Post by **Cabe** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:23 pm

I already have my little love nest set aside for the Hetzer when it arrives. Right now the Marder IIIm is using the spot and the camo foliage. When the hetzer arrived there will be modding, airbrushing, customizing an there will be grinning, but oddly enough in this Oscar season, there will be NO blood.

Here is my hand made love nest in need of a hetzer

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:12 am

Cabe wrote:I already have my little love nest set aside for the Hetzer when it arrives. Right now the Marder IIIm is using the spot and the camo foliage. When the hetzer arrived there will be modding, airbrushing, customizing an there will be grinning, but oddly enough in this Oscar season, there will be NO blood.

Here is my hand made love nest in need of a hetzer

Very nice man!! I keep looking at all the foliage at my local hobby shop and pondering the possibilities but I didn't have the right vehicle. The Hetzer will fit the bill. So small and easily hidden, it cries out for a nice ambush dio.

1958Zelda · Post by **1958Zelda** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:47 pm

Repainted my 38t and Hetzer,got the 38t from KAMIKAZE and two Hetzers form LIGHTNING 2000,both great to deal with,the 38t was painted from a picture in concords book BATTLE ON TWO FRONTS 1944-45 unknown unit,Poliaka,Bohemia,may 1945,painted in Dunkeigelb RAL 7028 with a camoflage scheme of Rotbraun RAL 8017 and Oilvgrun RAL 6003 spots.would like to see these made in 1/18 scale !

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:39 pm

painted from a picture in concords book BATTLE ON TWO FRONTS 1944-45

I have that book too. Both of those look great, excellent work.

ARMY GROUP 1 · Post by **ARMY GROUP 1** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:44 pm

1958ZELDA, your painting is excellent, you should work for 21 st Century. I now have 3 1/32 items myself, but do not let on to the 1/18 board, they would be horrified.
HETZER
MARDER
JAGDPATHER

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:58 pm

Awesome work on both those tanks! I've seriously given thought to picking up one of the Hetzers I recently found at Wal Mart to do a repaint (probably in an ambush scheme) but my efforts would not anywhere near as good as yours! Great work, once again!

Jagdpanther · Post by **Jagdpanther** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:08 pm

They both look great!

Cabe · Post by **Cabe** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:38 pm

if you are still pondering the foliage, i don' know if you mean the on-tank camo foliage or the tree.
The foliage on tank is the woodland scenics pre-made branches and they look awesome, come in dead foliage versions too.
The tree was made with woodland scenics HO scale trees attached to an actual dead limb from my yard. The tree is a sweetgum (i think) the drop the spiky little 2" diameter balls? Anyway. The branch is great because it has bumps every inch or so on either side that make excellent spots to place my plastic trees limbs.

But here's how:
Find limb
using a dremel or other power tool use a very small drill bit to add small holes all along the limb, be careful to only drill sparingly, you not want to compromise the structural integrity of the branch.
Get woodland scenic trees, they come in a bag that has various sizes. Mine had 3 different sizes a very small to a large. I sprayed the with white primer after bending them up AFTER. Because you don't want the paint cracking and flaking as you bend these into the shapes you want.
Then I painted them with a light brown wash, the limb was ashen grey that had brown faded areas, so I wanted the brown on first so that the washes faded it out.
I added a grey wash over the branches, the a black wash over that.

The leaves of the tree are olive green Woodland Scenic clump foliage. I tried using normal scenic glue (dries clear matte) but getting a good continuous contact was hard. So I bought the suggested glue Hob-e-tac. This stuff is messy, dries slow and if you get on your hand wash it off or you will stick to everything you work on for hours. But it is thick and holds well.
I used jello cups and small Tupperware cups and put a layer of foliage in, stuck the glue covered branch in, then stuffed foliage in around it and set it aside, then another and so on. I should have let it dry longer because I had foliage dropping off for days that I had to stick back on, but it was a good start

Then i started gluing the foliage covered plastic limbs (small trees) into the holes. The small trees have pegs on the bottom so they fit great. Used larger ones on bottom to med small on top. I used superglue and or scenic glue here.

Then I pushed the base down into my diorama (I had already pushed the limb bases down into the diorama when it was still wet to make spots for them before it dried.) poured scenic glue into the hole and gave them proper supports to dry. I added various scenic stuff like rocks and other grass and foliage to cover he glue and hole, heck there was an load of glue in the tree base so it wasn't hard to get it to stick...

tree done.

I plan on using this tactic to make small orchards, smaller trees and dead trees and bush rows. It was a nice discovery knowing i could get realistic without breaking the bank

MG-42 · Post by **MG-42** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:10 pm

[+] > " Ya' know ,.. I really appreciate the customs and info., you guys post in here". *

* "It certainly is , a wonderful hobby ,.. Thanks guys ! *

Mitch v MG

lightning2000 · Post by **lightning2000** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:33 pm

Zelda,
Beautiful paint job on both vehicles. Well done. I'm assuming 21st's second 38(t) will look somewhat like yours. Anyway, keep up the great work!

Lightning2000
www.themotorpool.net

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:08 pm

Amazing work! I am going to go beserk if I don't find a Hetzer soon!!!

AlloySkull · Post by **AlloySkull** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:59 pm

Rows, same here... I was so horrified at my WM not having anything new... I plunged and bought the two 1:48 Me-109Ks. Because I love 109s. I also thought they'd look good in MY room, not my plane room, because they're just not near as cool. I broke too much. Stuff doesn't fit right, and one of them looks so bad on fit, that I'm turning it to one side...

olifant · Post by **olifant** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:46 pm

Great work Zelda. I wish my repaints looked like yours.

Cabe · Post by **Cabe** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:57 am

hard to believe that as much as I have searched and scoured all around the 3 major cities that make up the metroplex of Dallas, fort worth and Denton, I have yet to see a hetzer of Marder III in person, let alone own one. Which sux because I want to do repaints to sell and both of those models are apparently gorgeous

I would just order one, but I know as soon as I did I would see one at Kroger mixed in with the lettuce.

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:12 pm

Get one from Smalljoes.com. Reasonably priced and shipping isn't bad.

Cabe · Post by **Cabe** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:35 pm

that's the plan

Small Scale Military Headquarters