Hi everyone,
A couple of weeks ago I decided to take a queen from the shelves.
It's a Tiger I which saw service in Africa during WWII
Some of you might remember it. It's a Tiger I of the second Kompanie of the s.Pz.Abt. 501. The second company had it's own distinct features but most people will think of 1st comp. Tigers when one speaks about an African Tiger I.
When I started the build in 2012 (!) there were no kits to depict a Tunisian Tiger I - other than an older inaccurate Tamiya 'DAK' Tiger I kit (no such thing as a 'DAK' Tiger exists. The heavy tank battalions or schwere Panzer Abteilungen which were deployed in the African Theatre never were part of the Deutsches Afrika Korps and thus aren't to be called like that. For some reason that's an error even modelling companies make up till this day) or a very rare and expensive Dragon kit.
So I decided to use Dragon kit 6600 (initial Tiger) as a base and add changes. The etchwork comes from Voyager models.
Tiger 243 is quite famous together with 241 from a set of photos where they just arrived in Tunisia 1943 and were en route from Bizerte to Manouba. These two Tigers carried a lot of jerrycans on the turret roof and that appealed to me. Apparantly it hasn't been modelled often so in way an original subject to portray ^^. In the past David Byrden pointed out that I made some inaccuraries so I'm busy adjusting them. The crew got painted but was never very happy with it. So they are stripped of paint and I'm busy doing some surgery.
The road from Bizerte to Manoube was a well maintained road, but for propaganda purposes 243 needed to go off road and drive up the bank of the road. Probably the most famous photo of 243
First some photos of the build how it was.
The two Alpine Miniatures figures were painted but I wasn't so happy with the result anymore. So last week I stripped them of paint and applied some surgery last couple of days. I also started changing some of the accuracies. If you look closely at the older photos, you can see that the tow cable ends were towards the rear of the engine compartment. This was correct for earlier production vehicles of the Tiger but 243 had the tow cable ends on the front of the upper hull. this can be noticed at one of the surgery photos.
Still, always a bit scary to cut up expensive and well designed figures :D
That's all for today ^^
Cheers
A couple of weeks ago I decided to take a queen from the shelves.
It's a Tiger I which saw service in Africa during WWII
Some of you might remember it. It's a Tiger I of the second Kompanie of the s.Pz.Abt. 501. The second company had it's own distinct features but most people will think of 1st comp. Tigers when one speaks about an African Tiger I.
When I started the build in 2012 (!) there were no kits to depict a Tunisian Tiger I - other than an older inaccurate Tamiya 'DAK' Tiger I kit (no such thing as a 'DAK' Tiger exists. The heavy tank battalions or schwere Panzer Abteilungen which were deployed in the African Theatre never were part of the Deutsches Afrika Korps and thus aren't to be called like that. For some reason that's an error even modelling companies make up till this day) or a very rare and expensive Dragon kit.
So I decided to use Dragon kit 6600 (initial Tiger) as a base and add changes. The etchwork comes from Voyager models.
Tiger 243 is quite famous together with 241 from a set of photos where they just arrived in Tunisia 1943 and were en route from Bizerte to Manouba. These two Tigers carried a lot of jerrycans on the turret roof and that appealed to me. Apparantly it hasn't been modelled often so in way an original subject to portray ^^. In the past David Byrden pointed out that I made some inaccuraries so I'm busy adjusting them. The crew got painted but was never very happy with it. So they are stripped of paint and I'm busy doing some surgery.
The road from Bizerte to Manoube was a well maintained road, but for propaganda purposes 243 needed to go off road and drive up the bank of the road. Probably the most famous photo of 243
First some photos of the build how it was.
The two Alpine Miniatures figures were painted but I wasn't so happy with the result anymore. So last week I stripped them of paint and applied some surgery last couple of days. I also started changing some of the accuracies. If you look closely at the older photos, you can see that the tow cable ends were towards the rear of the engine compartment. This was correct for earlier production vehicles of the Tiger but 243 had the tow cable ends on the front of the upper hull. this can be noticed at one of the surgery photos.
Still, always a bit scary to cut up expensive and well designed figures :D
That's all for today ^^
Cheers
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