Armour advice regarding which to builb from these choices?

[BlrwestSiR]

Tamiya now makes a Hetzer as well. One is on my wants list after trying to deal with the Eduard one. 

 

[1to1scale]

Tamiya armor are pretty easy, I am just finishing up the Marder, and I won 2nd in Armor at a local show with my Tiger. 

[Martinnfb]

55 minutes ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Tamiya now makes a Hetzer as well. One is on my wants list after trying to deal with the Eduard one. 

 

Tamiya's Hetzer is Italeri reebox, so as the Eduard offering. It is a nice kit.

Tiger I is the coolest thou

[BlrwestSiR]

Actually Tamiya did a new tool Hetzer about 4-5 years ago. It's quite a step up from the much older Italeri one.

https://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/vehicles/tamiya/tam35285.html

The Eduard Hetzer was their own kit too and included a full interior but I found it incredibly fiddly to build.

[Martinnfb]

Mea culpa, I had no idea I was thinking about this one. Thank you for clarification Carl.   

[DocRob]

The Academy Hetzer isn't too bad either. I have built it some years ago over a weekend when I was ill. One of my fastest builds ever and it shows . I added Friuls for that Prague Hetzer.

Cheers Rob

[[CAT]CplSlade]

I have the Academy as well. Right after I got it is when Dragon released their 'new parts' kits and Tamiya released their new tool. Unlike Tamiya, Academy has the early and late versions.

[BlrwestSiR]

3 hours ago, Martinnfb said:

Mea culpa, I had no idea I was thinking about this one. Thank you for clarification Carl.   

It's an easy mistake to make with Tamiya being the Japanese distributor for Italeri and re-boxing many of their kits. 

[Sir Desmond Glazebrook]

The hetzer is getting some love. I just studied the the Italeri parts and instructions. Martyn provides a good case. 

 

[SapperSix]

On 3/28/2020 at 5:22 AM, Martinnfb said:

E-25 trumpeter. But that is not the point , basically same thing as Hetzer. The point is that Hetzers are easy to assemble and joy to paint.  

When you want to do some funky German scheme an open pallet is a joy. Much agreed! 

[SapperSix]

Desmond,

I presume you will have fun with any of those kits.  However Tamiya, by in large, are smooth builds.  Enjoy the new medium.  I became better at planes when I learned armor.  Enjoy!