Old Tamiya King Tiger Re-build

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More with her put together,











Hope to get the base coat on tomorrow and to make a start on the camo.

Cheers
Martyn.

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Base camo coat now applied ( warning lots of pics)

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Next colour

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Final colour and exhausts fitted



Exhausts shields.









Finish stills looks very "streaky" , but now I have the basic shapes filled in I plan to spray lightened and darkened colours into these areas to fill them out.

More soon
Cheers
Martyn.

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Morning,
A few more bits and pieces done, the camo has being touched up to fill in the streaks (still requires some weathering yet), and the tow cable and the other cable (what was that used for ?) have being fitted.
I, like lots of other peaple on this forum, did not like the kit supplied items, so I made up my own by using two different gauges of copper strands from old electric cabling, and by also using the two original 'eyes' from the large tow cables. I am only fitting these cables on the right hand side fender, other plans in mind for the left hand side.

Pics





Gun cleaning rods have yet to be made.

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I have also got the rear end finished except for the rear convoy light, which I hope to get finished this weekend.





More later,
Cheers
Martyn.

[PainlessWolf]

Riggy,
Seeing work like this is an inspiration. Top Drawer stuff, sir. Following along.
regards,
Painless

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Thanks for your comments Painless, appreciate it.

Seems like I can see the finish line, when you notice that some things will have to be changed, more of that later. I was wondering what to make the cleaning rods out of, when I came across some old wooden skewer sticks we had at the back of a drawer. Nearly perfect diameter (just a bit of sanding required), ends drilled out and some 2mm threaded rod glued in, some brass strip wrapped and soldered fitted at the other end.



Stained and fitted

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Tools fitted, and here's where it was this morning.







Sooo, I started giving some serious thought of how to run the wiring inside the hull, when I started to think that the original turret turning gear was taking up a awful lot of space. Wouldn't it be nice to fit the Heng Long style system instead, thinks I. Now it just happens that I have a old Heng Long Tiger that I brought of E-Bay that was advertised as a non runner for spares or repair. The turret motor worked ok and the large gear could be made to fit on my turret.

First up, the hole in the hull is bigger that the turret fixing ring, so a reduction spacer was made from 2mm plastic card.



This spacer was then centred by a mark 1 eyeball, and glued into place.

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I now had to fit the turning gear to my turret, first I made another spacer from 2mm card to lower the cogs from the bottom of my turret ring.





To centre this unit, I just glued in some square rod as spacers



Next up, a fixing bracket glued inside the turret ring.


All I have to do now is drill and tap some fixing holes, and fit the motor under the hull, then re-design my control gear location --------- paaaah

More later
Martyn