"Hetzer Camo" Topic

I am adding a hetzer to my chain of command forces and was looking for some Camo ideas. I have just finished a jagdpanzer iv in ambush so didn't fancy that again and then I found this
link
Which is quite nice and a bit different, but I am always nervous about copying a model if I can't find period photos that also show that scheme.

Anyone point me to more information or period photos?

Thanks very much

Fettster42:
This is the closest I could find:

Cheers.
Rod Robertson.

Time frame helps. If very last weeks of the war go with Czech camo. Google images for German Hetzer should give you more to choose from.

Mine are all very late war in and around Berlin. Extra armor. One has concrete slab on the sides. The above image is pretty generic and fit any where really. Sorry not too helpful. Would do some pics but I am moving and since my collection is a priority item they have already been boxed.

JH

Hetzers came in a variety of color schemes depending on all sort of different factors – some had base color, some soft-edged camo (field-applied), and some were also produced with two hard-edged camo schemes (depending on the factory producing the tank).

It's also widely believed that the Hetzer, unlike nearly every other German AFV, was often "mismatched" – meaning it could have a variety of parts from the "Early", "Mid", and "Late" production models on a single AFV.

Do some searching on 1/35 military modeling forums and you'll find a wealth of info.

The recent episode of "combat dealers" (correct name?" painted a Hetzer in camo using accurate 3 colour scheme..

martin

I copied the model in your linked article and I found another modelling magazine that had the green and brown reversed. So I copied that one too for my second Hetzer.

I like the hand painted look for the Hetzer more than the air brushed, based on the photos from the period I have seen.

Note though the model/author says the model is based on mid-summer Hetzer for Northwest Europe, but I don't recall these vehicles really being issued till late summer or fall in NW theater.

"It is properly depicted in Northwest Europe during the summer months of 1944. "

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzer

"The Jagdpanzer 38 first entered service with the Heeres Panzerjäger-Abteilung 731 in July 1944. This unit was sent to Army Group North on the Eastern Front."

I believe on the NW front they were almost exclusively issued to the VGD divisions as part of their anti-tank battalion, IIRC. You don't see too many photos of them on that front much before the Bulge.