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my late Tiger stripdown and rebuild

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:15 pm
by tiger205
hi guys
          a week or 2 ago i succumbed to temptation and bought a asiatam lower hull from rc tank.de, partly cos i wanted one but mainly cos rob(fv432) and stewart(brel) had bought one each and their write ups convinced me that they are the dogs danglies, which they are. anyway i put off doing anything untill now, what i did was draw up a list of all what i was going to do to my Tiger whilst i had her apart, plus another reason i put it off is i was working on something else tank related which i will share with you all in due course.
anyway the list of jobs i intend to do to "205" are - rip off the rubber zimm' and re do it the "crispy" way with a soldering iron, which ive started, smooth off the flash marks on the suspension arms from the new hull, notch out the front tow shackle holders, cut up the turret so i can rebuilt it more to scale not quite sure how, but i will do it, move the main gun pivot point to where it should be by the front turret lifting eyes, do away with the elevation motor and replace with micro servo's, my elmod TLS has 2 servo sockets on it for this purpose, plus aload of weathering and detailing,
so far ive done the "crispy" zimm' on the upper hull, i must say it does look spot on, ive also removed the casting marks on the new suspension arms, and given them and the lower hull a good couple of coats of basecoat ochre yellow, this is the 1st time ive used a airbrush, and i think it dont look to bad considering. thats about as far as ive got so far, like i said earlier i'm working on something else tank related and thats been taking up a lot of my time, here's the photos of what ive done so far i hope you like them

            Tony 8)

Re: my late Tiger stripdown and rebuild

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:17 pm
by tiger205
and here are the last of the pictures to date

            Tony 8)

Re: my late Tiger stripdown and rebuild

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:55 pm
by Mackem
Hi Tony,

The zim looks good. Is its crispy's soldering iron & styrene method or soldering iron straight to the model method?

John

Re: my late Tiger stripdown and rebuild

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:08 am
by tiger205
hi john
        it is crispys way off doing it, with a soldering iron & 'styrene, but the gun mantlet will be done straight on to the model with the soldering iron, its to bloody complicated to cut 'styrene to fit the mantlets shapes

              Tony 8)

Re: my late Tiger stripdown and rebuild

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:33 am
by Ex_Pat_Tanker
wow, somebodies been busy! I need to get my finger out and get started on Tiger 212 8)

Re: my late Tiger stripdown and rebuild

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:44 am
by FireflyKeith
Looks like you got the hang of the soldering iron quickly Tony, thats a great job you have done there, i look forward to seeing it finished  8)

Re: my late Tiger stripdown and rebuild

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:01 am
by Crispy
Thats looking real good Tony, once you get going it doesnt take too long doing that zimmerit does it? I bet your smells really nice though ;)

Re: my late Tiger stripdown and rebuild

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:36 am
by oz
CRAP! there goes my inspiration.... :-[

Re: my late Tiger stripdown and rebuild

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:29 am
by grompix
Looking great Tony. I too have a Tiger 'waiting in the wings'. I'm considering zimming it with Crispy's hot iron method so I'll watch your progress on this with great interest.

Cheers
Chris ;D

Re: my late Tiger stripdown and rebuild

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:24 pm
by tiger205
hi guys
          nic's way of doing the zimm' does sound daunting, but once you get going it does'nt take long, it does stink a bit though ;D ;D , Tony "youre inspiration" isnt getting wiped out, its just getting done better, essentially the same camo etc, but painted better and new better decals with better detailing, atleast thats the plan, the colors i'm useing are all humbrol enamels(its what i know)they are red/brown-matt 160, yellow ochre-matt 83, and dark green-matt 30. i have just moved the position of the front single headlight wireing position(where it goes through the upper hull) and cut off the wooden block so i can reposition it as per late Tiger, i might even make it in real wood, i will post more pic's when i take them . and thanks all for the comments

            Tony 8)