After a Summer of being thrown around the garden Winter has been a great time for uprading, adjusting, and practicing paint techniques.
First up, a couple of much needed upgrades to my King Tigers. The standard Tamiya 1/16 King Tiger is without doubt a great design, but sadly not designed to take the incredible amount of stress that adding metal tracks, upgraded idler system and the general extra weight of metal add ons.
It was noticeable that the hull had been twisting while going over rough ground. This effect had caused the rear plastic lugs wich hold the rear plate on had shattered. to address this prolem i have made alloy backplates for both KT's and added an extra base plate.
Alloy Back plate. Glued and screwed.
3mm thick alloy base plate.
I have also been trying my hand at weathering techniques. Something of which i have not been too successfull with in the past, but i think i am getting there slowly!
The Mudguards on this one are the metal ones which NigelD had spare and he kindly sent me when i first got into tanks. i would hope i can do them justice and will be if in a small way my lasting memory of a great modeller and kind man.
