


This will be a straight OOB build. No aftermarket bits....well only a few! I've looked at this kit several times but deleted it from my virtual cart at the last minute on every occasion. Finally bit the bullet and may have found a use for the "German Primer" acrylic set I bought from Ammo a few months back

The box is well stocked, details are crisp, sprue gates are small. Tracks are link and length and look like they will do. The kit is obviously the Academy Hetzer (late) kit but with a resin piece to replicate the piece of armour plate welded over the main gun opening. There is a small photo etch fret in what looks like stainless rather than brass. Decals are waterslide and give markings for two examples.

Instruction manual is clear, only 12 steps (56 in the Paladin build!). These little Hetzers were essentially mobile machine-gun bunkers. References on colours are vague but suggest they were either "in the white" or just primed then decorated "in the field".
Shouldn't take too long to build, biggest interruption is the "long weekend" I'm taking in Fiji starting tomorrow

Adam