One step forward, 10 back!!!...
It's been 3 weeks since I last updated this thread and (judging by the pics) it does look as though not much progress has been made. In fact I've done quite a lot of work to the Tiger but most of it is remedial work for stuff I wasn't happy with. The turret roof for instance is entirely new. Yep, I revisited the entire thing - cutting plated, weld seams, the hinge manufacture - everything was done again. Why? you might ask. Well, there was a slight bow in the original roof which I was aware of but thought I could live with. This niggled me and had to be put right so all that work was done again. Another revisit was the position of the track hangers on the right side of the turret. These were positioned too far forward and were therefore removed repositioned and made good. The Zimm around this area needed slight repair as a consequence.
Now on to real progress...
I've installed all the electronics for the turret including the gun flash unit. This I felt was a bit too garish and so I toned done the bright orange colour of it by spraying over a few coats of
Tamiya smoke. I feel it's now less noticable but the gun flash is still visible.
I've made the new track cable for the left side of the hull (Aber 1mm cable and ends from the spares box) plus the supporting brackets from brass (not quite finished yet).
The main towing cables have been put together these are Schumo items and have working mounts to go with them.
As you can see I've sprayed the completed turret. I've given it a little shading but the bulk of the work on fading, tonal variation will be done once the hull receives it's yellow paint and the whole thing gets the tricolour camo treatment.
The engine deck is next which again needs a few mods - turret ring added, tools repositioned and some alts to the rear of the deck. Once this is done it will be pretty much time to complete the paintwork and get on with finishing
Anyway, that's about it so far. Hope you like the progress.
All comments welcome
Cheers
Paul
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