Or as Chamberlain and Doyle would have it, 4.7cm Pak (t) auf PzKpfw 1 Ausf B. Wargamers like me tend to call it a Jagdpanzer 1, even though it is a Panzerjaeger. Good luck explaining the difference.
The Jagdpanzer I was the first proper self propelled AT gun on a tracked chassis used by the German in WW2, and married a Czech 47mm with a Panzer I chassis. They saw action in France in 1940 and they also equipped the 606th Panzerjaeger Bn in North Afrika before they were superceded by various types of Marder.
So here we go, a Jagdpanzer I. This is a BPM resin print.
It is a single piece print, my favourite kind. There were a few printing strands to clean up but nothing major. One slight disappointment are the very obvious striations on the glacis plate, although they are not present on the sloping gun shield. Maybe a problem with the master STL file? The resin BPM Hetzers had very sloping armour and not a striation in sight.
Anyway, it isn't hugely noticeable, but I paid more for the resin models to avoid this sort of issue.
The tracks are also a bit crude, but it is such a tiny model anyway it isn't really an issue. The running gear is very nice though.
Like other decent 3D prints, it has lots of lovely internal detail, something which just isn't feasible with plastic or metal moulds for a one piece model. You can also see the lovely crisp detail on the mudguards etc.
There aren't any crew provided and the fighting compartment is so small I struggled to fit any gunners into it without major surgery, so in the end just put a seated figure perched on the engine deck.
I wanted to use this one with the Afrika Korps (I already have a pair of desert Jagdpanzer Is in 6mm), so did it in sand over the a grey basecoat. Bits of the grey show through quite well. It is Vallejo Iraqi Sand with an inkwash and a drybrush. There are various photos of markings on these, and some of them do actually have tactical numbers so I put balkan crosses and platoon/gun numbers on the fighting compartment.
The only slight problem I had while painting it was that I managed to snap the end of the gun off while drybrushing it! It broke off under the recuperator as there wasn't a lot of resin holding in place. I stuck it back on with loads of glue so it is both bonded to the rest of the barrel and the recuperator above it, so hopefully it won't come off again.
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