A vehicle that has intrigued me since I first saw the profile in "Panzerjager", a small reference book from Almark that I picked up from Squadron Mail Order around 1975, I was delighted when Trumpeter released a kit in 1/72 around 2005-and another twenty years later I finally got around to building it.
No WiP shots for this one-just a palette cleansing build that went together fairly quickly, but not without a few issues. Fit of the floor pan was...a bit ambiguous, which left me with a slight gap where the rear armor of the super structure met the chassis. It is is partly concealed by the rear steps and the muffler, but it was a little frustrating. I wanted to add a crew, and finish it in something like Afrika Corp colors, so I raided the figures in the old Hasegawa kit of the Karl Morser, tried to modify them slightly, and barely managed to fit three of them in the fighting compartment. The fit problems aside, it is a pretty nifty little kit. The Gun and fighting compartment are very nicely detailed. Oh, and the track fit is
very snug.
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I did encounter some slight interruptions-this is Scruffy, a local semi-feral* who has been visiting me in the workshop occasionally.
He's a good egg, but a little demanding of attention.
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*We took him to the Vet about a month ago, and he's been neutered, and now has his rabies vaccine-sadly, he already has Feline immunodeficiency virus, but the Vet didn't seem too worried about it. We have to keep him outdoors because of our own indoor cats,
but he really wants to be an indoor kitty.
