King Tiger Initial Production (aka Porsche)

[Herr Dr. Professor]

Ah, nicht Atak, aber Aber. Thanks for the help. (Even puns in German are intended. )

[gorehound]

Hi

Due to serious illness and recovery I did not get much done on this until lately. Next problem was my phone suffered a serious illness but it died, along with the build pics finishing it off - I know I should have backed them up.
On the positive side, it is pretty much finished now. I do need to get some decent pics of it but the weather is not good and I don't want to go out and get soaked and cold but I will try to get some when the weather is a bit better.

I have a Clark TK60 installed with a soundset from MaxMeker and it is pretty impressive when running. Has servo recoil and the rest is pretty standard Taigen \ HL. I did not want to weather it too heavily as wanted it to look like it had not seen a lot of service but I might add some later on but want to get started on something else now.

As I said, the pics are not great but will sort out at some point.

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[Herr Dr. Professor]

Well, the photos you have posted here sure do look great to me! Woo Hoo!

[gorehound]

Thank you Herr Dr Professor for the kind comments, they are appreciated.

[John Glover]

Man that turned out great. What paint color and process did you use for the wood part of the tools . Looks like you created a wood grain effect. Regards John.

[gorehound]

Hi John

Thank you for the positive comments.

With regard to your question re the wood effects, I do have a woodgrain effect I use. I tried the various things from several brands (eg Mig, LifeColor etc) but was never happy with them so tried something different.

I primer first with Tamiya fine, them brush on a thin coat of Valejo basic flesh colour. Once this is done I draw the woodgrain on with Faber Castle Pitt Artist Fineliner Pens - usually Dark Sepia. Once this has had a while to dry I then brush slightly thinned Tamiya clear orange over the top - the more coats the darker the finish. On the barrel clening rods I then paint Meng brass ( other brands are availble ) on the ends after inserting some fine threaded rod or a small bolt with the head cut off to simulate the threaded end. Finally, the whole lot gets a coat of matt varnish to tone it down. You can add a tiny drop of brown paint in to tint the varnish if you want a darker more brown look but it needs to be a very very small amount.

I hope this helps. Next time I am doing this I will take pics as Ig o along if you want.

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[HERMAN BIX]

Oh Hell-yeah Mr Hound, we'd all appreciate the how-to on that woodgrain if you could.
Really nice job that KT, not often seen a Porsche/early Turret version.

[ColemanCollector]

That is a really slick camouflage pattern! Colourful but still understated. And ditto on the tool pics of your process. I'll take two axe handles in birdseye maple, please!

Mike.

[Martin2556]

Great looking King Tiger & some great tips on creating convincing wood grain effects.

[John Glover]

Thanks for that Mate. Appreciate you showing your method when you can. John.