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Re: tiger 1 early production build

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 4:43 pm
by spongehoobtank82
Jimster wrote:Excellent work! The air cleaners and chains are fine examples of scratch building. Very nice creativity with the convoy light. I’ve read that despite common belief that original German convoy lights were green but after 70 years the lenses took on a blue tint. I probably research too much.
Don't tell me that jimster there glued in now Image but in all honesty, blue looks cool and this is a perfectly persevered 78 year old tiger so it's ok the lights faded from green to blue ImageImage that's my excuse with the rivet counters ImageImage

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Re: tiger 1 early production build

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 4:59 pm
by Wildboar44
spongehoobtank82 wrote:
Jimster wrote:Excellent work! The air cleaners and chains are fine examples of scratch building. Very nice creativity with the convoy light. I’ve read that despite common belief that original German convoy lights were green but after 70 years the lenses took on a blue tint. I probably research too much.
Don't tell me that jimster there glued in now Image but in all honesty, blue looks cool and this is a perfectly persevered 78 year old tiger so it's ok the lights faded from green to blue ImageImage that's my excuse with the rivet counters ImageImage

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This subject of colour has come up a few times, the simple answer is from what I have learnt is it’s not clear if it was blue or green. It may be one of those details lost in history.

I do like the way you have mounted yours, that is a brilliant yet simple solution :wave:

Re: tiger 1 early production build

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 5:03 pm
by spongehoobtank82
Cheers WB44! Yeah we may never know, but as long as it look relatively realistic it's ok by me am not as super detailed as some of the builds on here, wish I was but I get by

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Re: tiger 1 early production build

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:08 am
by spongehoobtank82
So who said removing the left hand aerial tube was easy! I read somewhere in here yonks ago you could just cut it/peel it off, well you can but you have to spend ages slicing along the bottom/side but after much precision slicing hey presto! Image

Quick sand and prep with tamiya Hull red
And fill in abit of the weld line ith some more milliput

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German grey and-Image
You would never know it had been there!