My First Tiger and Still Upgrading

[slaychild]

Damn great job!!!! Still working on mine.

[sunray]

Damn great job!!!! Still working on mine.

Mine has ground to a halt at the minute until I find the turret ring. Thanks for the comment.

[sunray]

Now for the wheels and hull. I primed all the wheels and hull with grey primer, then sprayed them with the base coat and lastly the camouflage coat. Everything was straight forward and then came the black rims. On the inner wheels the black rims were sprayed freehand as I didn't think that over spray matter would too much. The outer wheels I did a bit differently. As these had camouflage on them I didn't want any over spray so I decided to make a mask out the clear plastic you get off toy boxes, etc. I measured the diameter of the Tiger's road wheels and used a compass cutter to cut them out. I cut out 16 masks which took about 10 minutes give or take, then I struck them on the road wheels with Blu-Tack. All I did then was spray with the black paint. Once dry I removed the masks and sprayed the wheels with two coats of Pledge Klear floor polish and two coats of flat varnish.

Compass Cutter

Home made masks

Outer Road Wheel

Inner Road Wheels

Painted Idler Wheel

Sprocket Wheels painted

Sprocket Wheels painted again

Side view of Hull

Front view of Hull

[sunray]

Time to put everything together. I found the Turret Ring and everything went according to plan apart from one wire needed re-soldering on the Turret. I charged the battery, turned it on and it all works. All I have got to now is a bit more touching up and weathering and its finished!

Nearly finished

[sunray]

A few more photo's.

[phantom_270]

That is bloody epic. Good job on it mate.

[streetfighterjeff]

top job bud, looks sweet
jeff

[sunray]

That is bloody epic. Good job on it mate.

Cheers Phil. I am busy doing a M41 Walker Bulldog for my nephew at the minute.

Ian

[slaychild]

Looks great buddy. But I do have a question. Did early TIgers have zimmertt?

[sunray]

Looks great buddy. But I do have a question. Did early TIgers have zimmertt?

I did see it on a photo on the web some where but as usual I can't find it now. It could have been retro fitted but to be honest I don't know. I think I shall put it down to artistic license that is until I come across the photo again. Thanks for the comment.