Hey folks,
It's been a while since I did anything on the jagdpanzer, but now the centurions done it's next in the queue.
There isn't masses left but it's all the fiddly little jobs which seem to take an age.
First up was the side skirts. I got these from tank modellbau and they were pretty good, everything fit where it's supposed to. Also you can remove the skirts easily but so far I've not found a need to glue them on. This really helps with maintainance, especially taking the top off. I also fitted the armour plates to the rear fenders/engine deck. I bought some from tank modellbau but sadly in this case they didn't fit. The original vandra ones where much closer so went with those.
In a moment of madness and after swearing off aber photo etch for life, I bought the fire extinguisher. I've done a couple of these before so at least I know I should be able to do them. In the end.it turned into a very satisfying evenings work, in the main it went together ok. For of the more obscenely small stuff was omitted for sanity but you don't really notice.
Next up were the tools and other furniture on the engine deck. I bought the metal set of panzer IV tools off Dave which were then titavated with the addition of wooden handles, clamps etc. On the axe I ground off the moulded hold r and reshaped the blade, added grain to the handle using corse sand paper and scratch built a new holder from brass. On the Jack I added some schumo butterfly nuts for some added detail. The antenna is from mk modellbau with a scratch built base. The spare track holders from styrene but I found it sagged under the weight of the metal links. The was solved by adding a strip of brass out of sight between the holder and the links. I'm quite proud of the Jack block. I started off punching bolt heads into the banding with a small hammer and the point of a needle file. However in a stroke of good luck whilst I was looking for suitable brass on an old photo etch fret I found two bands pre made, much nearer than my efforts. I made up the holder from thin brass and then added the belt holding it on. This came courtesy of the schumo IDF Jerry can holder fret. Last up was the travel lock. Another kit piece but nicely detailed and functional.
I need to add the barrel cleaning rods which I plan on kit bashing from the aber king tiger rods (which will give me 2/3 spare for my KT too), the convoy lamp needs adding and the cushions on the hatches need doing, so couple evenings work and she will be ready for paint.
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...that's even without the makeup. It looks like the head-scratching paid dividends in terms of eloquent (simple) engineering solutions on the gun pivot and so on. Apart from the slight excitable barrel twitch in Vid 2, and an engine volume 
that could raise Michael Wittmann and crew from their graves, this has the makings of another Meisterwerk 
Delighted to have been of some help,Tom, albeit unwittingly. 
