Jagdtiger 1:35 Build begun.

Hello hello, well I'm building the Sherman, and jagdtiger alongside one another, and have half started De-spruing the tiger, my first impressions of the jagdtiger is excellent detail!! Really nice lines and sculpting, and a very substantial feel to the pieces.
it is slow going, the kit comes with a choice of 1:72 rubberised track strip, or individual piece plastic tracks, but not quite as individual as the Tiger which has "Dragon" style totally seperate track links, about 200 of them. This is brilliant for more interesting modelling and realism, but for the jagdtiger I have a very basic display base in mind, so will stick with the simpler rubbers as they still look awesome :)

Just below is a side shot of the finished lower carriage, it's a brilliant angle to demonstrate the sheer length of this beast. Sherman looking sheepish in the background.

 Here's the carriage next to the chassis top, you can see that the rubberised tracks are just as nice as any individuals here, nice convincing sag, at least enough for my purposes anyway.

 heh, I love this picture, the completed M4 side shot with the Jagdtiger, bear in mind here that they are right next to each other, flank to flank. The insane size and caliber difference of the main gun is almost hilarious :D

 Nice close up of the detailing on the gun mechanisms, the breech is beautifully crafted, and the whole gun assembly rotates on a proper style runner and has elevation too, I will point out here for others that the recoil guard is quite fragile, though I think I broke mine by accident getting it off the sprue. Nothing a bit of superglue and gentle smoothing won't fix.

Same angle, with the gun fully lowered, better view into the gun breech.

All in all very pleased with how this is going, no major hiccups or qualms with the kit yet, despite initially being a little vexed at how many pieces the gun itself was in, but the reward of all that detail is more than worth it :)