The Sd.Kfz. 138/2 Hetzer Early Version plastic kit in 1:35 scale from the Dragon company captures the early production form of the German light tank destroyer of the last phase of the Second World War.
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An injection-molded plastic kit of the Jagdpanzer 38 light tank destroyer in 1:35 scale. The vehicle is rendered in its early production form, that is with the arrangement of details carried by pieces from the start of series production. Dragon is known for fine mold seams on its parts and for richly broken-up superstructure detail, so it is a kit rather for a modeler who already has several vehicles behind him.
The Jagdpanzer 38, commonly called Hetzer, was a light tank destroyer built on a chassis derived from the Pz.Kpfw. 38(t) tank. Series production ran from 1944 at the BMM factory in Prague and subsequently at the Skoda works as well. The gun armament was a 7.5 cm PaK 39 with a barrel length of 48 calibers, mounted in a ball mantlet in the right-hand part of the front wall of the fighting compartment. The design rested on a low silhouette and markedly sloped armor plates; the crew was four men and the space inside was very cramped. Early vehicles differ from the later ones in details of the exhaust system, the mounting of the fenders, the shape of the gun mantlet and the arrangement of the vision ports.
Finish and paint the running gear and the interior details of the fighting compartment before you close up the hull, because once it is glued you will not reach them. Use thin cement for plastic, which wicks into the seams, and apply a filling primer before painting to even out the surface. The tracks and the underside of the hull deserve a dark wash and dry pigments, which give the vehicle a dusty or muddy character. A multicolor finish is typical for late German vehicles, so an airbrush at low pressure and masking with modeling compound or thin tape come in useful.
The model is supplied unassembled and unpainted. Glue, paints and accessories are not included in the package, unless stated otherwise.
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