With the hard parts design work already done, it should be easy for them to upscale molds to make a 1/16 version. Moveable tracks might involve a bit more work though. Fingers crossed!
The two variants have different exhausts as well with both supplied in each kit. So tiny inside for the four crew with all the equipment. Also only 30 rounds of ammunition. 20 AP and 10 HEAT. I will add these nice looking kits to my other Hetzers from Academy, Trumpeter and Tamiya. 👍
Hetzers are one of my favorite German tanks. They should of built more of these instead of wasting resources on the Maus! I will be getting the late version. Enjoy your videos Andy!
The version with the Russian red, white ,blue marking on the side is actually a German marking of sorts. The POA is the Russian Liberation Army who were recruited from Soviet POW's. Not a lot of choice really, either starve to death or take your chances fighting against your former comrades, who would without a shadow of a doubt knowing how brutal the Soviets were, execute you if you were caught in German uniform. At the same time there were a number of vehemently anti communist volunteers who were a bit of a throwback to the Russian civil war post WW1. There were about 50,000 in the POA so not a small number. Their fighting ability was uneven to say the least yet they served on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. Hope that clears that one up. Looks a lovely kit but unfortunately I struggle for space for my 1/35 kits let alone 1/16 kits lol.
Andy! Hetzers! I might have room on a shelf for one of those! :-) Have spent a good bit of time in the Hetzer that used to be at the Patton Museum at Ft. Knox - I guess it's down at Ft. Campbell now - when are they ever going to open that place up?!!!
The leaf spring suspension shoukd be thicker in front than the back for the mid and late production versions. They were the same size on the early but the Germans found out the early Hetzers had a tendency to lean forward due to the front bias weight. Thus the change in suspension size.
Can't wait to see you build one would be fun I got the Early one for Christmas it looks like a nice kit have not started it yet working on something else but it should be fun
der klassische Nieten-Zähler-Bausatz - wer braucht das??? Die Erkenntnis von heute ist der Irrtum von morgen - the classic bolt counter kit - who needs that??? Today's knowledge is tomorrow's error . thumbs up for the video - thumbs down for the kit
With the design work for the 251 done I would love to see some other variants of it in the future. Like the sdkfz 251/22 pakwagen. An sdkfz 234 Puma would be an amazing addition as well.
Need more allied armor with interior. Churchill, valentine, crusader? we have panthers, tigers, panzers in 500 different aufs. Can use some non-german variaty There's a whole singular sherman kit with interior, and miniart with some USSR stuff and M3, very little representation relatively speaking.
Hello Andy. Could you consider assembling a Tamiya 1/35 Flakpanzer Gepard. You know the tank with the radar dish an the two guns on either side of the turret. Thanks.
I have no doubt, in these days when Hobby shops are few and far between, that Andy's Hobby HQ is doing well with his mail order business. Rock On! Andy's HHQ!
lovely kit Andy but come on lots of the guys are asking for it in 1/16 scale me too full interior or shell we don't mind and because I'm a cheeky lad how about a 1/16 scale m113
1. A very exciting release from Takom!👍I love the idea of a clear roof for viewing the interior (..although I saw another vid that suggested that the entire upper hull was clear too.🤔) 2.This would be a superb model in 1/16, if it had a clear upper hull & roof! [...hint, hint...nudge, nudge...wink, wink!😉😀
And yet under every video presenting any kit, you will find people complaining that the kit doesn't have an interior. It is impossible to win that war. 😂
This is a fascinating, underrated little tank that was based off Czech 38(t). Although it was cramped and had its limitations, it still performed well in its niche. There are plenty of videos of fully restored and running examples of the Hetzer. I haven't built a model of it since my early teens when I tried unsuccessfully to scratch build an interior.
I've had the pleasure and honour to be driven around in a Hetzer a couple years back, during militracks in the Netherlands. they are small, cramped. Zero visibility. I sat in the gunner's position. It was so fun. Scary to imagine people actually going to war in one of them.
Had to laugh, lived in Phoenix for 30 years and when you're doing something it seems like we put a estimated time on how long it will probably take. Moved and slowed down and when I build I take what it gives me.
