Late Production Jagdtiger

[Panzermechaniker]

I envy you having 2 more to do. They are in the Tamiya pricing stratosphere by the time new ones get to Canada. I love the JT and also my Sturmtiger. Both ridiculous vehicles but so much fun to model and run around outside with

[Stormbringer]

You have done a good job on it

[Jofaur86]

Superb work, I love this type of tank I have one waiting (Torro) from a few years ago, bought second-hand, in its wooden box... €350 today? Almost €700. At one point I wanted to sell it, but then changed my mind. Right now I'm struggling to adapt servo-driven recoil to it, and it's not easy... at least not for me and my big fingers.

[Shameless86]

I envy you having 2 more to do. They are in the Tamiya pricing stratosphere by the time new ones get to Canada. I love the JT and also my Sturmtiger. Both ridiculous vehicles but so much fun to model and run around outside with

I really just got lucky and hooked up with a dude who let some go cheap. 2 of them were older and had the asiatam recoil and elevation. The last one was servo. My original Jagdtiger thats now Y1 came straight from Deutschland. From torro that was full price and the most i paid for any of my fleet
.... but I NEEDED IT!!!

Im hunting for a tamiya jagdtiger now but not real hard.... Im pretty sure they exist. Ive seen 1 for sale and missed it it was 500 bucks. I scored a tamiya tiger 1 on of the first ones i had. they are nice models. And good runners. I dont beat on it but run it plenty and had no problems with the tamiya.

The ridiculous worthless ones are the ones I like as well!!! They are the most fun!! Ive always like the jagdtiger since I got in RC. It was a little disappointing to find out how bad they were hahahahah but the torros run good!! I like tank destroyers but dont have a stugg the most produced most killing ones hahahaha well not yet...

Its a fun hobby

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[Shameless86]

You have done a good job on it

Thank you!!!

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[Shameless86]

Superb work, I love this type of tank I have one waiting (Torro) from a few years ago, bought second-hand, in its wooden box... €350 today? Almost €700. At one point I wanted to sell it, but then changed my mind. Right now I'm struggling to adapt servo-driven recoil to it, and it's not easy... at least not for me and my big fingers.

Thank you very much for the kind words!.and yeah they aint cheap!!! Is the servo binding up? Mine on Y1 did that after I a painted the barrel. The asiatam I didn't replace gets stuck back when it happens I run it in a ditch and say the crew abandoned it!! drained that recoil cylinder and let one go!!

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[Jofaur86]

Yes, indeed, there are often problems with the Asiatam system. But you can open it; it's quite easy. Check that the grease isn't dried out, which can cause the mechanism to jam. You can also disconnect the barrel and operate it to see if the problem persists.

[Shameless86]

Alright this update will get this up-to-date on where the jagtiger currently is.

Now, this is the 3rd king tiger type hull that Ive taken the fenders/mudguards off of. On both of those I used strips to fill in the missing bit once I cut them off. Then its a fair amount of body work to get them smoothed back out. Ive settled on .312" x .080" strips on the last KT.

This time I wanted to try something else. I saw the fine-art jagdtiger on here by maxmekker. He used the ludwigs sides thats what initially sparked the idea. I didn't copy his technique.. unfortunately..

I used the sides from Ludwigs also and they are nice! I got them 2mm thick. Im my head is was just gonna cut the torro stuff out and replaced it. When it came time I wasnt so sure....

I ended up making gusett/bulkhead type pieces to go form the torro posts to the edge of the hull. I cut them to fit the hull before I cut the side off then the new could ONLY be right....right???

Wrong!!!!

Well, almost right... the sides when on fairly easy. When i put the casemate on one side is true. The othe side my new plastic sticks out about 1 mm. Im not seeing any other way around it but cutting it back off cutting some more off the hull and re installing it

Idk this is where she sits now. The updates will not be so major now.im.gonna try and do one when I work on it instead of recapping and month of work everytime like ive been doing on here now!


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[Jofaur86]

Hello, this is assembly line work... quite a job! I have a few questions, if you don't mind. How do you dismantle the casemate? The internal screws? I understand, but what about the two ends under the upper chassis? They seem glued on? I didn't dare force it. Is it necessary to redo the sides when removing the wings? Why? Keep up the superb work... I can't wait to see the rest!

[Panzermechaniker]

Nicely done. But now comes the fun part. Sanding it down. Even that crease line from Torro where the casemate joins the upper hull that is not there on the real JT was a pain in the ass to finally get smooth