Operation Tamy T1 face lift

Burger_Patrol1 · Post by **Burger_Patrol1** » Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:12 pm

PainlessWolf wrote:Good Morning, Burger P,
The first tip that I can give you is avoid the trap of comparing your work to anyone else's. You will have your own strengths and ideas about how something should be done. It looks like you are having great fun redoing this Tiger so you've already mastered my second piece of advice. ;o)
regards,
Painless

Morning PainlessWolf,
Thanks for the great advice. I am defiantly having fun with this rebuild, like a little kid in a candy store!!

I will do my best to use other works as motivation, instead of sizing my work up to them. I am trying to research the T1 #322 from s.Pz-Abt. 507. If you have any leads on info about this T1 let me know. Tanks for the help and have a good one!!

PainlessWolf · Post by **PainlessWolf** » Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:25 pm

Good afternoon,
This site may be helpful:
http://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/ ... 02-russia/
regards,
Painless

Tiggr · Post by **Tiggr** » Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:47 pm

Burger_Patrol1 wrote:
Tiggr wrote:The original pic is of an early production T1
But the chassis in your last post is of a late variant.....

Have you got a particular tank in mind to model ?
Morning Tiggr,
Thanks for the response....I guess that was my initial drive to redo this build is I wanted to model mid to late T1. So what I'm shooting for is to model the T1 #322 from s.Pz-Abt. 507...Not sure if this is considered mid or late version, do you know? Oh and i'm trying to find pics of this particular beast so if you know of any, please let me know. Thanks for the help!!
507 .png

Resize 322.jpg

There is a picture of T1 #322 from s.Pz-Abt. 507 here, just over half way down the page
It is a late production model with resilient steel wheels :

http://www.tiif.de/thread.php?threadid= ... e56&page=4

Regards
Paul

Burger_Patrol1 · Post by **Burger_Patrol1** » Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:51 pm

PainlessWolf wrote:Good afternoon,
This site may be helpful:
http://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/ ... 02-russia/
regards,
Painless

Thank you sir!!

Burger_Patrol1 · Post by **Burger_Patrol1** » Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:52 pm

Tiggr wrote:
Burger_Patrol1 wrote:
Tiggr wrote:The original pic is of an early production T1
But the chassis in your last post is of a late variant.....

Have you got a particular tank in mind to model ?
Morning Tiggr,
Thanks for the response....I guess that was my initial drive to redo this build is I wanted to model mid to late T1. So what I'm shooting for is to model the T1 #322 from s.Pz-Abt. 507...Not sure if this is considered mid or late version, do you know? Oh and i'm trying to find pics of this particular beast so if you know of any, please let me know. Thanks for the help!!
507 .png

Resize 322.jpg

There is a picture of T1 #322 from s.Pz-Abt. 507 here, just over half way down the page
It is a late production model with resilient steel wheels :

http://www.tiif.de/thread.php?threadid= ... e56&page=4

Regards
Paul

Thank you sir!!!

Raminator · Post by **Raminator** » Sun Jan 01, 2017 8:37 am

Spectacular work, Burger Patrol. Your starting point is already impressive, so I'm looking forward to seeing where you go with the finished product.

Nice choice of upgrades too, the suspension and gearboxes are some of the heaviest-duty stuff I've ever seen. Any information on those?

Burger_Patrol1 · Post by **Burger_Patrol1** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 4:28 am

Raminator wrote:Spectacular work, Burger Patrol. Your starting point is already impressive, so I'm looking forward to seeing where you go with the finished product.

Nice choice of upgrades too, the suspension and gearboxes are some of the heaviest-duty stuff I've ever seen. Any information on those?

Happy New Year Raminator!!! Thank you so much for the kind words on my original build. I will try to keep steadily updating this new build as I progress.

The Suspension is a heavy duty kit from "IMPACT". The site I bought mine from is no longer in service, but I did see this website had them in their inventory.
http://mitosal.com/KingTiger.html

Here is a You tube vid that shows you how this systems gives more relistic travel for you road wheels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZb2ydz3Ufk

I purchased my Idler adjusment system, Heavy Duty transmission, & Lower Hull brace from Bob at ETO Armor.
http://www.etoarmour.com/products.php?ViewCategory=10

Have a good one