Bergehetzer New Connections Models

Holger Kranich
Hi Scott, i´ll give it a try!

Holger Kranich
The first text up left only tells you how to work with resin.

Down left explains the story of those "Bergehetzer".

The instructions is the lil part up right on the first pic. It says:

To build this Bergehetzer you need the Dragon kit 6030. Please follow the Dragon instructions step 1-5 and step 10. Only the pe part MA4 will be needed and istalled like Dragon shows in the instructions. Instead of the ilder wheels from Dragon, please use the late 6 hole wheels, provided with our resinkit. The small text on page 2 is not important for you. "Baustufe" means: Step.

I hope you can understand what i translated?

Greetz Holger

Holger Kranich
I would love to translate the story of the Hetzers but my english is not good enough and i dont know many of the verbs in english, sorry...

Scott Schneider
This is great! Thank you so much. I can not thank you enough.

Holger Kranich
Calm down Scott;) The pleasure was on my side to help a fellow modeler!!!😄
Btw, cool conversion kit! I just had a quick scan of the net about pix from a Bergehetzer, thats not a easy task...

Fabian D.
"History:
Beginning at mid 1944, Heerespanzerjäger-Abteilungen (Tank hunter corps of the Wehrmacht) which were equipped with the Jagdpanzer 38(t) "Hetzer", recived converted Bergehetetzer 38(t).
In contrast to the Hetzer, those had an open top and a slightly lower hull, which could be closed with a canvas; mountings for a 2ton-crane were placed on the left side of the vehicle, a two-pice tow bar and an unditching beam were located on the right.
The tailskid could be lowered to improve traction when using the 5ton winch, wich was powered via the transmission.
Pictures of these vehicles are rare, aside some unsal, some show unusual schemes. Light green (grey), with brown (green) and light grey (sandy yellow) stripes ontop. There are no unit insignia or other markings visible on these photos."

I asume the colors in brackets are sipmply an alternative of the one mentioned before. The scheme might be simmilar to the Hetzer in Bovington.
Pretty hard to translate every information in there... a masterpiece of German syntax 😉
Looking forward to your build Scott. 😉

Holger Kranich
Tailskid? Thanks Fabian!;)
(I think i really häf tu rifräsch and impruf my english skills...) LOL 😄😄

Fabian D.
Tailskid or tail skid = "Hecks[****]"... though at least you could read German... 😛
I reduced my consumption of german syncronized tv shows to zero and started watching them in english right away. Apart from the fact i´m always three months ahaed, it did quite improve my skills 😉

Holger Kranich
Quote: "... though at least you could read German...

Asshole! ROFL! 😄😄😛

I love my mother tongue but to speak (write) better english is important to me! Scalemates (And dudes like you) helped me to improve that a lot!;)