HL-10 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 This is AFV Club's 1/35th scale late version Tiger 1 with a set of figures from Dragon. I added a resin Zimmerit set from Atak Models, and some resin vision blocks to commander's cupola, but the rest of the kit is OOB, including the decals. AFV Club provide working torsion bar suspension, which is way too soft, so I fixed it neuTral alignment. The model was painted using Tamiya Acrylics and Humbrol enamels. The figures are an old set from Dragon. They are meant to represent Michael Wittman's crew. The commander figure doesn't resemble Wittman much. I replaced the heads on the rest of the crew with ones from Hornet. They were painted with Humbrol enamels. I tried to give the commander's jacket a bit of a shine, as he is meant to be wearing a leather jacket, but it looks more like patent leather in the photos so I'll tone it down a bit! The figure that is meant to stand in the loader's hatch wouldn't fit in that position, so he got transferred to the driver's position, with the one who was supposed to be sitting on the barrel ending up as the loader. upload an image image upload image hosting adult windows screenshot forum image hosting free upload pictures imgupload image post images hosting image hosting above 5 mb image upload no size limit free photo upload Thanks for looking 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Beauty! the figures are excellent too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 superb work, looks great... very nice job on the painting... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbob1974 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 fantastic paint job looks grate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Lancaster Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Very nice, I see you got the identification numbers to decal well on the zimmerit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndM Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Splendid Tiger, great paint work and figures. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 great work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 That is a superb looking Tiger. Excellent work! Well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stesca Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Excellent looking Tiger, nice crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatboydim Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 I really like the crews uniforms. Really nice Tiger too. Well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowlevelraf Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Great work all round mate! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL-10 Posted March 23, 2015 Author Share Posted March 23, 2015 Thank you for all the comments and compliments Coincidentally, I've just watched a documentary on Michael Wittman. They started with the action at Villers Boccage, with some reasonable graphics. It was trying to work out who actually fired the shot that destroyed his tank, the Northampton Yeomanry and a Canadian unit both claimed to have done it. They believe it was the Canadians who fired the lethal shot. The most interesting part was when they visited the farmer who owns the land where the action happened. He's got a collection of bits from Wittman's Tiger in a barn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 That's a really nice Tiger - Great work Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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