M3talpig

Thanks so much Nenad

Yes at least on the hull... most of the engine deck is removable and the compartment over the driver-co-driver is removable and the turret lifts of (obviously) but the turret only has openable hatches. to be fair 50% of the work i did is just not and never will be visible.... shame but it is what it is...did teach me not to bother with interior kits for myself ...the investment in time, materials, and effort is just not worth it. Thank you bud

Thanks Ed...

Why thank you sir.... as for the effects in the turret i used the hairspray technique, and then went over the paint with warm water and a stiff brush gently stabbing at the areas i wanted looking worn and battered...the kit was the Trumpeter 1/16th King Tiger ...if you want a more detailed explanation of the hairspray technique let me know and i will walk you through it.

Well a little of both ..laid the outlines down with a pencil very lightly then the hairy sticks to outline the camo in the two remaining colours then took each pattern one at a time and masked up to the lines with MIG putty ....honestly that stuff cut the masking time down by tens of hours ...really good stuff.

Well i did offer but i only had a haddock...seems that's not good enough ...i do hate fish snobbery There was once or twice where you could hear me clearly ...erm ...building it, not quite a mechanical sound.....more sort of sweary shouty noises

Why thank you sir Not sure about that mate ...that gotta be pretty cold So do i mate Thank you Stuart

Thanks Stef...nice to see ya again mate...hope you been well Thanks Kieth very nice of you to say

Your wish is my command...will a haddock do it's all i got to hand

Your evil ...do you know that... to be honest i have been tempted to get AHHQ M10 Wolverine in 16th ....but then i remember this build and it brings me back to earth pretty fast Thanks Dmitriy very kind.

Greenstuff world two part putty rolled out between a couple of layers of grease proof paper....looks fairly convincing.

Thanks Darryl ...gave it's fair share of sweary moments but i did really enjoy the journey....it also reminded me of why i don't do 16th scale anymore.

So this was a commision i took last year and the reason i have not been active for some time...it was requested to build from the box with just the addition of a photoetch kit for the tool clamps (which are all workable). It took 13 months to complete and while a generally a good kit needed some pretty extensive cleanup and copious amounts of filler to get things to fit(lot's of broken parts in the box as well) This is Karl Heinz Turks KingTiger as seen during the defence of Berlin in 1945, and is shown with a full factory hard edge Hinterhalt paint work....weathering was kept reasonable and rust to a minimum as this vehicle wasn't very old at this point. This bruiser did it's fair share of damage to the Russian advance into Berlin along with Goerg Diers KT between them inflicting over 30 knocked out T34 and IS2's ..... Karls KT was eventually damaged badly enough that it had to be abandoned. Anyway here it is the pics leave a little to be desired but this thing is a proper unit and wouldn't fit in my light box, this was the best i could do.

Is there a limit to pics you can store Jasper? i would like to start threads and know that six months from now that info is still there....unlike what i was using last time ...a lot of the threads i did back then would be useless to anybody now as the pics won't exist anymore, seems a shame especially for threads like the Tiger super thread, so much info was available and pictures but i would bet if you go back to earlier posts all those pics will be gone and so the info there is now useless. To be fair its the one thing about FB that is really stunning it's the sheer amount of pics and knowledge and you can download all of it, posts don't die there and stuff you post can be accessed at anytime. I belong to the Tiger tanks group(amongst many other specific groups) on FB and the historical info and pictures are mind blowing not too mention all the recognised experts that frequent these groups......not too stress the point but i have personally had chats with people like Hillary Doyle and some very famous modellers who we all find to be an inspiration, but for me it's the historical stuff you won't find a better source for stuff like that short of accessing museum archives. To be clear it took some fairly heavy tactics to get me to sign up but damn dude i'm glad i did, lots of negatives with FB but if you're careful with how you setup your feed you just don't see the crap and just get the good stuff.To the naysayers you are missing out i promise you. You know i just thought if Britmodeller set up their own group that would be soooo awesome. edit Just had a look and they do have a facebook group yay

Ooohh i got one of these in the stash....not sure what i'm doing next ..... got a few Sherms in the pile including a few conversion kits....but no point in taking the talk unless i can find a decent photo host.