Cheap Tiger 1. Not so Cheap

[Meter rat]

New saw arrived, so it had to be put to use and removed one of the mudguards.
I need to pick Mr Chef’s brain, for what he used for the mounts.

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[MrChef]

Ask and Ye shall receive. I had remembered in my travels and readings all the Tiger I projects on this forum. IIRC a member although I forget who exactly had used a PE or other detail set which included a bunch of these attachment points. He was nice enough to measure them as 2mm cubes. I used 2mm square styrene rods. Cut em, sanded em, and used a pin vise for the mock mounting hole which the PE set had as tapped with tiny screws.





I did exactly what you did. I used the old fender piece to mark the spots for the bolt mounts and Bob's yerr uncle. I used CA glue that has about 15 seconds set time so I had time to adjust.

[Meter rat]

Thank you Mr Chef. Just the information I needed. Will order some 2mm square rod tomorrow..

[Meter rat]

Thanks to Mr Chef for giving the size of plastic to use, 2mm square rod was attached on the marks made when the mudguard was removed.

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This was trimmed down, and holes drilled into it them to represent where the bolts would have gone to hold on the mudguard.

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Finally, it was cleaned up and painted. My reasoning for using red primer was, would the real manufacturer waste paint, and time painting under the mudguards. How accurate this is, I know not.

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[HERMAN BIX]

Plausible, but bear in mind this is an early Tiger so they had plenty of infrastructure and resources to call on at the time.
I'd go with the primer being painted over, as the mudguards were always removed for entraining over distance, and had to be refitted once in the area of combat for road movement after detraining. The narrow transport tacks were put on, mudguards removed, and then, the battle tracks fitted and guards reinstated once the Tiger got where it was going.
A red band would have looked out of place I reckon.

[Jimster]

I concur.

[Ad Lav]

That’s what I’ve done on my mid production.

[Meter rat]

I shall take heid from the wise ones, and paint under the mudguards.

[Meter rat]

Now painted, and I have to say looks better.

[Meter rat]

Fitted the exhaust flaps. I am starting to like the little details.

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And a cruel close up. Luckily you can’t see where I have missed with the paint, on the model.

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