1944 Tiger 1 ( Late )

[c.rainford73]

For the last week, markings and tools have been coming in so I thought I had better get back to work. Pics:

Wow Mr Painless those figures look excellent top notch painting! So impressive, again you have pushed the envelope and driven us all to try to attempt such high standard builds!

All the best

Carl

[PainlessWolf]

Carl!,
Thank you, my friend. The fellow in black goes with the Tiger. The other two were pulled off of the 'Crackerbox Palace' build to show the contrast in available figure molding.
Mick!,
Thank you also. That figure is available almost everywhere like the ubiquitous American Sergeant ( also from HL ) and is available in a variety of plastics ( I think Heng Long casts in whatever plastic or material is cheapest that week ) This guy is one of my spares from a Heng Long Tiger from years ago. All of these paint jobs shown can be blamed on me. ;o)
regards,
Painless

[c.rainford73]

Carl!,
Thank you, my friend. The fellow in black goes with the Tiger. The other two were pulled off of the 'Crackerbox Palace' build to show the contrast in available figure molding.
Mick!,
Thank you also. That figure is available almost everywhere like the ubiquitous American Sergeant ( also from HL ) and is available in a variety of plastics ( I think Heng Long casts in whatever plastic or material is cheapest that week ) This guy is one of my spares from a Heng Long Tiger from years ago. All of these paint jobs shown can be blamed on me. ;o)
regards,
Painless

The paint on these figures is top-notch it's tough to do I really admire a nice job one of the toughest things to do is paint the figures

[Marco Peter]

Marco, Diorama Freaks store is on Ebay. I have the link but it is a URL from within my signed on account. So just go to Ebay and type\copy-paste in "Wehrmacht Bundeswehr MG Partonen Hülsen Sack RC Panzer Deko Zubehör 1/16" The seller is in Witten, Germany and the piece is 2.99 euro.

Thanks, but no luck finding it. After trying a lot of different searches using fever and fever of the words in your search-string, I finally found this:
"Wehrmacht German Army MG partonen Sleeves Bag RC Tank Decoration Accessory 1/16"

And when I clicked it: Tadaaa! The item with exactly your description turned up whahaha!

So thanks!

[c.rainford73]

Mr Painless I know there's no exact time table for perfection but when do you anticipate the final reveal on this beast?

[PainlessWolf]

Good evening,
Back from the City. Mates Birthday is next Wednesday so a proper Feed had to be put on with folks driving down to say hello and Happy Birthday.
Marco, I'm glad that you found the piece. It really is a nifty add-on.
Mick, I have a couple of editions of this fellow laying around too. I've used two so far on the Panther and Porsche King Tiger builds from some time ago. Those guys will get upgraded with new heads or replaced when those tanks come up for freshening. I'll include a couple of pics of them here if I can find them.
Carl, Thank you, Sir. I expect a couple of weeks on the outside will see this one clanking around on a show off thread. Then it's back to the Stuart until it is completed.
regards,
Painless

[Rad_Schuhart]

Painless, just curious, I have seen the maps that you bought and I checked the price at the web, it was like 10 bucks.

Are they made of plastic? Because if it is just paper you can download plenty of maps from internet from free and print them.

I had tons of them at home, cost 0.

[PainlessWolf]

Evening, Rad,
These are decals I think. You can apply them to different substrates and have floppy or folded or board mounted maps. The printed maps are cool and I have gone that route before. Thanks for the heads up.
regards,
Painless

[Rad_Schuhart]

Evening, Rad,
These are decals I think. You can apply them to different substrates and have floppy or folded or board mounted maps. The printed maps are cool and I have gone that route before. Thanks for the heads up.
regards,
Painless

Morning at this side of the world, lol.

Ok. Great to see at least are decals. Nice bits you bought by the way. Do you have any place to buy plastic Mg42? It would be better if they come in sprues and needed of bluing both sides together, because I want to fit leds inside to make it working with sounds and so on.

[jackalope]

For maps try a shop that sells doll house stuff. I found maps were in the school house stuff AND they are of Europe and Russia which works out perfect! If I remember correctly I got a pack of 6 maps for under $3.00.