HL TIGER WORK IN PROGRESS
 

just thought idd post some photos of this weekends work on my hl tiger, its a s&s version with metal tracks and gears as bought,
any comments welcombe
cheers Pete

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Looking good! Where did you buy it and the metal accessories?
Is this your first 1/16 RC tank?

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hi Chris
got it from well know auction site on web, smoke and sound version, came with metal tracks and gears allready fitted for about £90, first tc tank, have built models for years on and off, also got a couple of 1940's military vehicles full size.

its had so far,
metal barrel extention
engine mesh
rubber zimmerit covering
mid comanders hatch metal with machine gun
metal tools
metal wire ropes
single headlamp metal
got verlindan comander figure or tamia figure to go in when finnished,

all accesories have come form same auction site bought a couple a month till i was ready to start (still want to add a few more to get list before its put back together)
zimmerit is rubber set fits well and looks quite good just have to see how it paints,
still might get hull smoke launchers, hull machine gun with led and a few more if i get around to them,

looking at doing a mid version just need to decide what colour i want to finnish it and what markings to try,
cheers Pete

RE: HL TIGER WORK IN PROGRESS
 

who was your seller on the auction site?

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hiya

got the tank from Hobby-Power based at Kidlington, Oxford in uk just looked there on there at the mo for £85 + p&p
think i got most of the parts from tankworkshop in uk
all from e-bay

hope this helps
cheers Pete

RE: HL TIGER WORK IN PROGRESS
 

some more work in progress shots,
arial moved,
second speaker installed,
turret side link brackets
led gun barrel
barrel end made for turret led
some battle damage
air filter chains
light brackets removed and filled
think im nearly at the painting stage


any comments welcome
cheers Peter

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Dont forget to get your Pics in the Tiger PICS only thread. Great source for info and ideas.

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thanks Bob
for the good coments thats why i posted the photos for the good or the bad. wanted peoples opinions as to what they thought and to see if idd made any big mistakes on the way.
cheers pete

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hiya
will do but not till its finnished as thread says completed tanks only, shouldnt be that long though hope to spray it this weekend.

cheers Pete

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another update,
photos of new paint job
also repositioned on/off switch got the idea from photo's on this forum. easier to use and not visable iether.
might move smoke switch as well.
cheers for now

RE: HL TIGER WORK IN PROGRESS
 

Looking good, going to be a nice Tiger when its finished

Cheers Ian

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been a while but some update photos on tiger still a bit to do
cheers Peter

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Great job. Wish I could paint like that.

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+1 to that! Looks really good Peter! Thanks for putting up the 'after' photos.

Cheers, Bob

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Oh now that is a looker! Great job my brother! You nailed the colors! What decals di d you put on that bad boy?


Don

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Nice detailing work with the damage and projectile impacts! Now get him dirty!

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hiya didnt use decals, hand painted with fine brush,dunno if number exists just picked it out of my head, will put some more progress photos on later with nearly completed figures

cheers Pete

P.S. need to finnish it as this and a mates snow lepard are probably going on our local model club table display at IPMS show at Telford in a couple of weeks. Needed a bit of a kick to restart work on it.

RE: HL TIGER WORK IN PROGRESS
 

tank's need a crew so here's my effort, still got to finnish one figure with headphones ect but getting there

cheers Pete

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Dodge,
I'm starting research in painting my Tiger. Did you have to go back and repaint the black rubber on all of your roadwheels?

Looks fantastic by the way ;)

RE: HL TIGER WORK IN PROGRESS
 

Here is a trick for the rubber road wheels. SHARPIE marker does a bang up job. It also gives the tires that real rubber look. For even more detail, put some nicks and gouges in the rubber just like the real things had. To highlight the damaged rubber, use a dark gray to "fill in" the gouge, then dry brush a slightly lighter gray around the edges.

Don

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hiya
yea sprayed tank and wheels all assembled the repainted tyres when dry, not much of a hassle really
cheers for the comments.
figures are tamia plastic comander figure in black uniform, and other figure is a verlindan resin figure,

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Don,
Never thought of that trick! And I thought it was only good for fixing gouges in furniture caused by five-year olds :)

Blake

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well here's my finnished tiger for now
hope it meets with peoples approval
cheers pete

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Well done, looks great!