King Tiger (TigerII) Porsche turret build.
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:56 am
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![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
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!![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
so anyway pics without complete captions as of yet as i cant be arsed
![:icon_mrgreen: ;D](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
as received
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/getuserimage-1.jpg)
light without a cable
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2907.jpg)
Cupola muppet and the muppet paintedit with some muppeting thick muppet paint
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2811.jpg)
Hull MG missing
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2816.jpg)
Hull MG fitted
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2905.jpg)
sloppy tracks before links removed
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2817.jpg)
Tracks tightened (do they look right to you ?)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2903.jpg)
Fabbed hull pics
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2894.jpg)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2895.jpg)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2896.jpg)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2897.jpg)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2898.jpg)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2899.jpg)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2900.jpg)
need to fit turret ring to this
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2821.jpg)
how on earth do i fit re-coil and elervation to this ?
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2820.jpg)
need to fit rotation unit to this
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2818.jpg)
GRRRRR
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2904.jpg)
Cable things
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2813.jpg)
GARRR me hartays thats it for now!![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
Matt
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!!
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
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
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
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
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
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!
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
so anyway pics without complete captions as of yet as i cant be arsed
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
![:icon_mrgreen: ;D](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
as received
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/getuserimage-1.jpg)
light without a cable
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2907.jpg)
Cupola muppet and the muppet paintedit with some muppeting thick muppet paint
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2811.jpg)
Hull MG missing
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2816.jpg)
Hull MG fitted
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2905.jpg)
sloppy tracks before links removed
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2817.jpg)
Tracks tightened (do they look right to you ?)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2903.jpg)
Fabbed hull pics
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2894.jpg)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2895.jpg)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2896.jpg)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2897.jpg)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2898.jpg)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2899.jpg)
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2900.jpg)
need to fit turret ring to this
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2821.jpg)
how on earth do i fit re-coil and elervation to this ?
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2820.jpg)
need to fit rotation unit to this
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2818.jpg)
GRRRRR
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2904.jpg)
Cable things
![Image](http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv328/mat-dragon/Rc%20Tanks/DSCF2813.jpg)
GARRR me hartays thats it for now!
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
Matt