Panzer kaput! Tamiya Tiger 1 restoration.

[AGKPeiper]

Well this is going to get a bit more interesting soon. As mentioned elsewhere I have ordered a HL Tiger 1 to act as donor.
When I stripped the turret on the Tamiya I found snapped parts of the recoil mechanism etc. Thats not really a problem as fitting a BB cannon was always my plan.
The HL will provide everything I'm missing and then the remains will be up for sale along with whatever is left of the Tamiya that's worth selling.
I figure by the time thats all sold my costs in this should be below £100. Nice.

[AGKPeiper]

Tamiya boxes stripped ready to form the bases for HL boxes.

I shall evaluate the motors once I have the HL electronics etc.

[Jofaur86]

if I follow you well? you expect to fit the HL end sprockets in the Tamiya bases? this will not work, the spacing between the two vertical flanges, being different, in length, as well as the pinion centers, etc. Be careful also that the exit of the axes of the "Sprockets" is probably ditto, at the risk of see the tracks rubbed on the upper frame, I do not want you discouraged? but you avoid disappointments, after a lot of mechanical work (personal opinion)

[Jofaur86]

Personally, here is what I had done on a KT Tamiya, adapting HL engines,

889230F5-3D10-4EB7-A7C1-6CBA38D38D8C.jpeg (74.43 KiB) Viewed 1116 times

D74AEC3E-7521-43EB-9D9C-7178C62E6A73.jpeg (83.11 KiB) Viewed 1116 times

[AGKPeiper]

Nope. You continue to underestimate me sir. I plan to use the shells of the Tamiya gearboxes as platforms to mount the HL gearboxes on. I will probably have to cut them down in places to adapt them but thats cool.
Makes for a similar method to your ingenious work on your own conversion.

[Jofaur86]

ah no i don't underestimate you? would not allow me,
just that I may not have understood well,
what you wish to do, but do not doubt your abilities

[AGKPeiper]

I'm just pulling your leg Jofaur.

[Ad Lav]

Nice find, sorry about your father in law.

Looks to me like brush painted humbrol paints. Dark green and red brown, base is probably rattle can humbrol dark yellow.

It’s an early full option version given the nylon gearboxes. To get it running you could install any tamiya mf and dmd to get it going.

I’d sand it and repaint it fully in his memory.

[Herr Dr. Professor]

I do have to agree that a repaint would be an honor to your father-in-law. Had a model Tiger I been the work of my long-departed and sorely-missed father (don't have a father-in-law), it is likely that his work would have been the best he could do with the information and supplies he had available. I know that my father would have challenged me to make his work come out even better.

[AGKPeiper]

Well I now have a two day old HL Tiger 1 in pieces after having played with it a bit and losing a bb somewhere after forgetting the thing had one in the chamber, that made me jump.

I'm definitely going to have to do a full repaint as I'm going to transplant the entire turret from the HL into the Tamiya.

The gearbox swap looks to be fairly simple. I have some threaded brass tubes/supports from the original boxes that can be cut down to form spacers between the floor of the tank and gearboxes.

Pictures tomorrow maybe if I make some progress and do something more than destroy a brand new tank.