Early Tiger 1 conversion help.

[Abo]

Have any of you fella's coverted the HL Tiger into an early version with the turret side bins? If so how did you accomodate the turret turning mechanism situated at the back of the turret in the current rear stowage bin?

Any info would be a great help in making me decide if it was worth the hassle.

Abo.

[fv432]

Hi abo

check out joes build from Hobby Havoc aus  http://www.hobbyhavoc.com/forum/index.php?topic=243.0

and there was a conversion were the barrel mech was stripped and converted to fit the turret think it was on RCU by pzrwest or YHR

another option maybe the PZR3 barrel mech as it is smaller or the asiatam one with recoil

Hope this helps Regards Rob

[Abo]

Thanks for that Rob, what an absolutely brilliant build on hobbyhavoc, head and shoulders above anything I was thinking of.

Now if you forgive me, I'm going to sit in a corner and cry. 

[BREL]

Thanks for that Rob, what an absolutely brilliant build on hobbyhavoc, head and shoulders above anything I was thinking of.

Now if you forgive me, I'm going to sit in a corner and cry. 

I thought Joensis went a bit over the top with his build, but then hey it is a Hobby and we can do as much or little too the tanks as we see fit,
some very good ideas have come out of his build as well, has he finnished the tank yet

makes my efforts seem to be rather poor in comparison.

[Abo]

Yeah, I must admit it was a REALLY involved build, which I would be ok with (love the Maybach engine!!), the painting too but I'm pretty poor with the electrics, my Mrs runs and sits under the stairs every time I change a light bulb!

Have to say I wouldn't want to take it outside after all that work which for some, I suppose, defeats the object doesn't it?

[fv432]

ah  you may not realise is joe is a model engineer and builds scale jcbs and caterpillars for fun including the hydraulics so the tiger was a day off project a bit of fun 

even though he copied my suspension setup lol (but he did make a better job of it lmao)

with the realese of the asiatam lower hull you can get tamiya quality suspension for a lot less yens

but it gives an idea of what can be achieved ive seen builds almost as technically good done with a dremel so there is hope for the rest of us 

[Abo]

Well that figures, the man is very,very good at what he does, I'm just surprised he hasn't invented real little men to crew it.

[fv432]

dont mention that he might just do it lmao