King Tiger (TigerII) Porsche turret build.

[Matdragon]

Hi guys,

i aquired myself a lovely (what i thought) King tiger with a porsche turret for £140 including post.

I then had to buy parts for it to bring it up to where i am now,

i got a : - 

Tamiya MF unit for £36.19

Tamiya DMD for £76.91

Comms cable for £3.00

MG set for £5.43

a sprue with the back plate for the mg for £3.62 (whole sprue for 1 part!! )

Tamiya speaker box for £17.35

Flash unit for 20 dollars so about £12-14 quid

Bringing the total build price so far to almost double what i orriginally thought it would be around the £325 mark. Hazar.

I need to : -

get and figure out how to fit a re-coil and mod it to fire properly

fit turret rotation ring and rotation unit

Fit the broken cummanders cumpola which some muppet that had the tank before me glued together then snapped off

paint the commander (oh heck)

and about a gazillion other jobs i cant be bothered to name at almost 1 o clock in the morning

So far i have: -

painted the ropes on the side and made a start on the tools (didnt go so well)

fabricated the lower hull and fitted the electronics

cut down the speaker box to make it all fit

with  the greatly appreiated help of Septon managed to get the awkward DMD and MF set up

Fit the hull mg

glued on the front light (needs the wire behind it)

removed to track links (was wayyyy to tight)

and like things to do thats about all i can be bothered to list at this moment in time!

so anyway pics without complete captions as of yet as i cant be arsed

as received


light without a cable


Cupola muppet and the muppet paintedit with some muppeting thick muppet paint


Hull MG missing


Hull MG fitted


sloppy tracks before links removed


Tracks tightened (do they look right to you ?)


Fabbed hull pics








need to fit turret ring to this


how on earth do i fit re-coil and elervation to this ?


need to fit rotation unit to this


GRRRRR


Cable things


GARRR me hartays thats it for now!

Matt

[bowlman]

Im using the rotation unit I had made from 35rctanks $35.00 plus shipping make a gearhead motor out of a servo it works off the Tamiya DMD unit .
For the main gun im using the one from Rccommand for the Matorro conversion  .

Jimmy

[bowlman]

Mat were did you get the DMD and MF units at that price from . 

Jimmy

[Matdragon]

Hi there,

yes im tempted by that barrel on rccommand but im out of money and its very expensive

i got them from tamiyatown a US seller on ebay, i had to bid on them though but luckily it seemed knowbody wanted the MF

cheers,

matt

[bowlman]

Tamiyatown is DAK ebay name ive got some of my KT parts from them also .

Jimmy

[BREL]

will it be ready for Cobbaton, 

[grim_marmazet]

Looks like you have a long build there Matt, but it wouldn't be fun any other way!  The turret looks like a static kit one, might take a fair bit of modding to add the elevation and recoil. But for the recoil mod, you can do Tailend Charlies one to a standard KT recoil unit. A lot cheaper than the Wecohe kit!
Hope it goes well, and cant wait to see it coming along!
Cheers,
Rik

[fv432]

matt looking good a long way foeward than mine

have you thought of grafting a heng/long one on the turret traverse
and as jimmy said using a servo with the potentiometer removed as the motor

[Matdragon]

Hi guys, thanks for the moral support

doubt it will be ready for cobbo, as i havent got sufficeint part yet  nor money to get them in the mean time

and yes Rik i want the re-coild to look like tailend charlie's ( http://www.rctankwarfare.com/Forums/index.php/topic,2982.0.html ) because that one looks great!

Hi Rob yes the turret traverse is going to be all HL, hl ring and motor as its small enough to fit in the space (KT's have suprisingly not much room )

cheers guys,

Matt

[tankman]

Nice job so far Matt you are now further forward with your KT than I am with mine  . Keep up the good work and the pictures  . All the best for now
Alan