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Anyway, so thanks Daryl, now onto my crappy build ....that i hope he never sees!



Tamiya Tiger 1/35, no interior (thank god) The kit comes with six different unit options meaning earlier or late production options like different mantlet, air cleaners, sprockets etc.I'm going to build the box art pic that belongs to the 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion, mainly because it looks clean..and i don't want to worry about intricate ammo schemes













I'm already into day two of this and realised i may never do another tank again, wheels man, so many wheels! No rush, but very repetitive. Spent an hour sanding down all the sprue leftover on the wheels and then worried about how i was going to paint the rubber part of each wheel without them looking like crud.















Tamiya German Grey. Did a couple of the larger parts along with the wheels. Daryl told me to paint the tracks black but i was undecided on them so let them sit unpainted as yet.





















Nice to have a beautiful warm sunny day, the night before (above) was freezing and i was trying to enjoy the outside world but having no luck. Painted a few more hull pieces..in reality i was just putting off painting the rubber parts of the wheels. I am going to seperate the one piece skirts in this picture to to try and get a used look to them.















As sloppy as this works looks so far, and it is sloppy, that was more than an hour of painting just the rubber part of the wheels. The ones sitting in the chassis i had mucked around the night before with some weathering and what not.

















I decided the easiest way, as i am just not good enough to finely paint without going over onto the rim, was to clean up my shoddy workmanship after i have weathered each wheel. So the two on the left are with just the rubber painted, two on the right with the weather/rust colour and the next pic is nearing completion. Cleaned up the rim edge with a blade where it meets the rubber. I still might muck around a bit more with them, not sure if am sold on how they look yet. I want to see if i can get a bit of a grimy look around the center/hub and the nuts and knock back that coppery/rust look around the middle.





















Tracks. Decided to dive into one with just the weathering dust mixed with water (i'm sure it's just Tamiya selling eye shadow) and then finished off the feet and pins of the track with gunmetal grey. Looks better than i thought it would turn out honestly.





















Tonight and tomorrow i will be, hopefully, finishing the wheels to my liking



I've wanted to build a Tiger for years so spur of the moment this week, after watching part of a fairly crappy doco on youtube that featured some Tigers, i bolted off down to the local model shop to see what they had. Funny story, i'm in the shop looking at the armour tossing up between Italeri and Tamiya kits and in waltzes this older guy who starts pulling American armour off the shelf and arranging them on the floor. He has that look of an old wizened modeller so i ask him.'Tamiya or Italeri kit for the Tiger...?' Twenty five minutes later after we have gone through interior or exterior kit/ scale/ how much detail do i want etc, what paints to get, what brushes, a few weathering tips and what is my online nick is so he can blow me up in War Thunder (Seriously!) i walk out telling the lady behind the counter i'll be back for the Tamiya kit. 3 hours later i walk back in and the lady goes..'Here he is..come over here lad' Daryl, my new modelling buddy and possible online executioner has put aside the Tiger for me, the paints i will need and a weathering kit. He has also paid for and left with the lady a little set of modelling pliers, Tamiya 3 brush kit and a sandpaper nail file kit for me! What a guy. His time, advice and even putting some of his money into an interest for someone he met for less than half an hour, blew me out:)Anyway, so thanks Daryl, now onto my crappy build ....that i hope he never sees!Tamiya Tiger 1/35, no interior (thank god) The kit comes with six different unit options meaning earlier or late production options like different mantlet, air cleaners, sprockets etc.I'm going to build the box art pic that belongs to the 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion, mainly because it looks clean..and i don't want to worry about intricate ammo schemesI'm already into day two of this and realised i may never do another tank again, wheels man, so many wheels! No rush, but very repetitive. Spent an hour sanding down all the sprue leftover on the wheels and then worried about how i was going to paint the rubber part of each wheel without them looking like crud.Tamiya German Grey. Did a couple of the larger parts along with the wheels. Daryl told me to paint the tracks black but i was undecided on them so let them sit unpainted as yet.Nice to have a beautiful warm sunny day, the night before (above) was freezing and i was trying to enjoy the outside world but having no luck. Painted a few more hull pieces..in reality i was just putting off painting the rubber parts of the wheels. I am going to seperate the one piece skirts in this picture to to try and get a used look to them.As sloppy as this works looks so far, and it is sloppy, that was more than an hour of painting just the rubber part of the wheels. The ones sitting in the chassis i had mucked around the night before with some weathering and what not.I decided the easiest way, as i am just not good enough to finely paint without going over onto the rim, was to clean up my shoddy workmanship after i have weathered each wheel. So the two on the left are with just the rubber painted, two on the right with the weather/rust colour and the next pic is nearing completion. Cleaned up the rim edge with a blade where it meets the rubber. I still might muck around a bit more with them, not sure if am sold on how they look yet. I want to see if i can get a bit of a grimy look around the center/hub and the nuts and knock back that coppery/rust look around the middle.Tracks. Decided to dive into one with just the weathering dust mixed with water (i'm sure it's just Tamiya selling eye shadow) and then finished off the feet and pins of the track with gunmetal grey. Looks better than i thought it would turn out honestly.Tonight and tomorrow i will be, hopefully, finishing the wheels to my liking

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