tiger tank refuelling

[streetfighterjeff]

guys, i am building an early prod tiger, going to have it refuelling in the snow. however i cant find a photo of one being refuelledin the field. would they have lifted the full grating above the fuel taank? also what colour should the interior of the comanders hatch be? i;m thinking red oxide. got lots more questions, such as what colour are german 50 gal drums and what colour would the base colour for a tiger be een if it was white washed? all answers gratefully recieved.

jeff

[andygif290368]

Interior hatch colour should be the base colour of the external camouflage.

No they would not have lifted the entier grill, they'd have just removed the fuel filler plug the + shape in the center of the end of the large grating.

German fuel barrel colour seems to be military grey, grey/blue or grey/green from what I can see by googling or checking paint call outs on models.

[andygif290368]

Here is good source of tiger tank info

http://tiger1.info

AlsO here

http://www.alanhamby.com/tiger.html

[streetfighterjeff]

cheers, was trying to remember the names of those sites. they were on my old comp that died. looks like i'll be drillilng the the filler plug and making a new one. was hoping to do wittmans tiger in russia, but i cant find a figure to go in the turret that looks anything like him.

Edited November 23, 2014 by streetfighterjeff

[andygif290368]

Have you looked at alpine minatures #35120?

[alanmac]

Hi

doing an image search via Google for German Fuel Drums will bring up plenty of examples. The were mainly constructed of non rusting alloy, some painted, most it seems not, with steel bands (which did rust) around their circumference.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=German+WW%22+Fuel+Drums&client=firefox-a&hs=iWc&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=nts&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=tBRyVOfKNJW1sQTZq4LwBA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1488&bih=1066

http://sdkfz7.free.fr/index.htm

http://www.missing-lynx.com/library/german/feuergefahrlichdm_1.html

Most model versions are incorrect, showing an opening in the end with the text showing.

What ever you do, don't buy the old Tamiya set, fuel drums and jerrycans are both incorrect.

Hope it helps

Alan

[streetfighterjeff]

bugger was going to use the tamiya set. didnt realise they were wrong, whats the best set to use? and i;ll have a look at that figure andy, cheers bud

[streetfighterjeff]

like those alpine figures, might have to get someone to resculpt the arms for me, want him stood in the turret, unless i can get a figure for a commander stood ther and just use his head. dont really do figures. need the practice though.

jeff

[andygif290368]

There are a few other options for fuel drums, AFV Club do a set and there are plety of other resin and PE sets. ABER do nice PE fret that will update the tamiya set, #35a114.

The alpine figure comes with two heads, so you can build him as per kit and use the spare head on an in turret body. Spare heads makes me think of kryten from red dwarf or wurzle gummage....