I am doing a dio and putting my jagdtiger in it with a few motorcycles and either a captured willy’s or shwimmenwagon holding the advancement with various figures but I cant seem to find any pics that show this monster with anything else but its own kind or on its own. So anyone got anything on this?
I haven’t looked too much into the Jagdtiger. Carius used it towards the end and most of the action I remember with them was hiding from AC. I would think a lot of Camo and the normal support of Kubels and FAMOs would work. I think they even avoided contact understanding that the war was over and just wanted to survive and get picked up by the Amis as opposed to Russia.
How about jadgpanthers and bergpanthers , there were very few JT’s in each hunting battalion due to the lower production of them , there were also of course supply vehicles and support troops ! Maybe the photos of JT’s only was due to thier higher survablity to allied air attacks , compared to the smaller jadg cousins or posibly because they were the spearhead and the biggest , and therefore had the company commanders in them for surrender .
Yes I was going to do the auchtung jabo figureswith the JT hideing but the masses tell me not to cover iy with folage cause the camo is Great. Blah!!! But I got a few I think other better ideas for a dio I will have to post up some pics of it later tonight and show ya What was and what is.
Why not put foiliage on there , all the pics I have seen of them have it as well as most late tanks from the reich , why not do it lightly , so you can still see the nice camo job underneath ? Your the artist do what ya want ![8D]
Its a tug a war battle. I think I willput some on it since the majority of tanks particulay the JT have it all over.
Very late war, Germans used virtually anything that ran for support / recon/
liason purposes. Might be cool to work in a V.W. Beetle,Czech-Master?
This would give a nice size perspective to that huge Jagd-Baby…
You can still show your JT in an ambush position without covering your vehicle with foliage. We used to just nose into a roadside tree line or row of bushes and “hide” there all the time. We only stuck weeds all over if we were staying for awhile. Support vehicles have been pretty well covered, a kubelwagon or scwimm, maybe a Blitz in the background. It’s all good.
What roamed around with a Jagdtiger you ask …
how about a fuel tanker or two.
How about 10 Shermans manuevering to find a good shot at it?
He-he-he.
10 would be about right.Gotta stay in a foot 1/2 by foot 1/2.
Hmmmm. 1/2 foot by 1/2 foot you say? OK then just fragments of what used to be 10 Shermans.
LOL.
LOL !! Thats for sure Dwight. Sorry Rob
How about a Kubel one side and at the other side a Bloke aiming a PIAT or Bazzooka at the thing
Thought of that C.C. but I dont have any figures with a piat or bazooka. Aiming it anyway.
Dragon do a nice set
LMAO.
Although, I bet fuel consumption wasn’t much of a problem hiding beneath trees.
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The stuff you see most deployed around jagdtigers are the American troops that overran them. [:)]
Remember that if you do the 512, you can also use a Panzer IV or a StugIII, as they used filler tanks in the 512. They don’t seem to have in the 653. I think they also attached Brumbars to the heavy panzerjager battalions, but that’s from hazy memory. Oh, and didn’t they use those wacy Flak T-34s in the heavy panzerjager battalions too? Someone out there must have the book on the history of the 653.
This is my first try on a dio so be nice.Ok here is the idea I have going,It is still in the works. it is to be a hedgerow setting with the JT being held up by the M4A2 which will be replaced with a jeep or schwimmwagen, just wanted to show it off alittle its not complete.
Also there will bea group of troops walking on the other side of the JT. plus a few others among the group of map readers. The title for dio is in working progress.
Figures are jaguar,tamyia, verlinden, and warrior.
ground work is brown colored grout with a few colored washes .
You are off to a good start. I say torch the Sherman! He-he-he.