MATORRO JAGDTIGER CONVERSION

[Raminator]

10/10

The construction, the details, the colours, the weathering, everything's spot-on. You wouldn't recognise it from the toy you started with.

[HERMAN BIX]

10/10

The construction, the details, the colours, the weathering, everything's spot-on. You wouldn't recognise it from the toy you started with.

Thanks for the big rap mate..............no, you would almost not recognise it.
Got a few spare track links with ejector marks on them, but they can be swapped out with matching ones.
The transition of the sloping side armour is barely visible, but the size of the casemate is still a bit big.
Over all, Its a reasonable representation of the late war leviathan and it seems to run very well so far.

For now its rear MG mount and track pull cable .
The MG mount will go on the engine access plate as per this picture from X7.
I have a Tamiya MG42 that Ive made fit onto a brass mount and the track pull cable is made from brass picture hanging wire with brass ferrules crushed with pliers.

[Soeren]

I have to look up this picture hanging wire. What did you use for the tow cabels? Are those from ABER?

[HERMAN BIX]

I have to look up this picture hanging wire. What did you use for the tow cabels? Are those from ABER?

The tow cables are stock units I got from Tank Army Australia, but Im sure the usual suppliers up there will stock the same ones.
Picture hanging kits are cheap, and have handy brass bits including the wire. I have 3 kits on hand just for the wire !
The track pull cable ;looks better now its wrapped around the vent.

[HERMAN BIX]

Mg mount soldered together,
Track pull cables look much better in position around the vent.
Secured with super glue gel, a light wash with dusting mig filter & that's it for the cable.

I primed the '42 in rubber black XF-85 , mainly because I had run out of XF-1 & forgotten to restock
Once it's rubbed over with pencil it should look ok.

[Tiggr]

Otto Carius' appraisal of the Jagdriger was pretty damning - he said that the main gun had to be recalibrated every time it went off road and he also stated that the transmission had to cope with traversing the 70 tonne machine left or right to target enemy vehicles.
Reading his and other accounts of it's deployment it was a poor design and a waste of precious resources.

Having said that I can't help but like the monster.

[HERMAN BIX]

Otto Carius' appraisal of the Jagdriger was pretty damning - he said that the main gun had to be recalibrated every time it went off road and he also stated that the transmission had to cope with traversing the 70 tonne machine left or right to target enemy vehicles.
Reading his and other accounts of it's deployment it was a poor design and a waste of precious resources.

Having said that I can't help but like the monster.

He would know eh !
For me, I cant get over the fact that the gun and optics could and did take out enemy AFV's at ranges that defy belief, but the resources it took to deliver that killer punch was disproportionate to the effect on the over all effort to fight a war.
Any way you look at it, there was no way industrially they could overcome the combined hardware of the Allied forces.
Too many different makes/versions of tank, too many logistical issues related to that, and too few airborne assets to prevent the lack of fuel and tactical assistance needed to carry on.

Cool rides but

On another note, heres a link to a walk around on the JT in Kubinka.

http://svsm.org/gallery/slideshow.php?s ... agdtiger02

I note the different position of the AA MG on the engine deck, and the broken towing hitch on the rear plate.
A good supply of images for one of the most futile yet powerful weapons of the Second World War.

[Tiggr]

Yes the main gun was awesome in the true sense of the word. I have read reports of kills from 4000m.
Having said that I also read a report saying a Tiger 1 achieved a kill from 3000m.

[c.rainford73]

Herman I'm really liking your tank. That one black and white image of the machine gun on the engine deck with all the spent cartridges is very cool. Maybe you can reproduce some spent brass on your engine deck? It just speaks of the conflict when you see it!

[HERMAN BIX]

Herman I'm really liking your tank. That one black and white image of the machine gun on the engine deck with all the spent cartridges is very cool. Maybe you can reproduce some spent brass on your engine deck? It just speaks of the conflict when you see it!

It spoke of bloody conflict last night when I busted the mount off the upright when I was securing the MG
Once I get it rebuilt, I will try the cases on the deck. I have some very fine brass tube(toob for you left hand drivers!)that might do as spent cases.