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It's a cold morning on the Eastern front. Tiger 1 advancing.
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 5:43 pm
by michaelwhittmann
Check out my new arrival. Weathering is 85% done.
Comment freely. Opinions, critique, etc.
Thx for looking.
Re: It's a cold morning on the Eastern front. Tiger 1 advancing.
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:11 pm
by Ad Lav
Really nice start!
One tip, lose one of the red numbers, they normally only had two or three numbers
Re: It's a cold morning on the Eastern front. Tiger 1 advancing.
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 7:23 pm
by MrChef
I agree with Adam. Good lookin start.
Like we said in the other post, lets see what happens with the baking soda.
Ad Lav wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:11 pm
One tip, lose one of the red numbers, they normally only had two or three numbers
LSSAH ran 4 numbers. Very early Tiger I's also ran 1 or 2 numbers just not those numbers painted like that. I don't know why HL provides those numbers-
https://tiger1.info/EN/Tactical-numbers.html
Keep it up.
Re: It's a cold morning on the Eastern front. Tiger 1 advancing.
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:56 pm
by michaelwhittmann
Don't blame HL.
Their # was bland.
I wanted a # with more.
Used a cricket machine.
In hindsight, probably an over-reach.
I'll do some research.
Thank you.
Re: It's a cold morning on the Eastern front. Tiger 1 advancing.
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:55 pm
by michaelwhittmann
Fixed. I'm still not 100% happy but 100% happiness is a high bar.
Re: It's a cold morning on the Eastern front. Tiger 1 advancing.
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:56 pm
by michaelwhittmann
new pix
Re: It's a cold morning on the Eastern front. Tiger 1 advancing.
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:09 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
That is an interesting camouflage scheme. It reminds me of the scheme that came some years ago on one of Torro/Taigen's winter camouflaged Tiger Is, but your version is a bit more toned down and credible. You say that you "used a cricket machine." I thought those only worked with pre-determined patterns. Do you mean that one can design ones own stencils? Now that would be useful.
Re: It's a cold morning on the Eastern front. Tiger 1 advancing.
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 11:02 pm
by michaelwhittmann
The Cricut machine has a large variety of fonts that you can explore. You can alter the size of your font, the space between each letter or number. You could make a stencil or print the numbers. Very versatile little gadget with much potential in the hobby world.
Re: It's a cold morning on the Eastern front. Tiger 1 advancing.
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 11:07 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
I will need to go to a craft store again to check on the variety of Cricut machines. I was hoping Cricut might even make a machine that could do stencils off of images. Dream on! Of course, a computer can give one all the typestyles, but cutting them out would be impossible. Now Rad somehow performs wizardry.