This is the most recent kit I have built, it is Tiger 217 under Otto Carius's command. The kit is Cyberhobby's Tiger I Mid (6763) and it was built OOB. In this particular build I "recycled" 94 parts from a previous build, Cyberhobby's Kursk Tiger, which shares a lot of sprues with this kit.














All comments are more than welcome!

Thanks

Christos

Very nice. Clean build. It nice seeing a less beat up tiger. How's the cyber hobby tiger? Thinking of doing one eventually.

Hi Kevin,

Thank you very much for the good word, means a lot.

There are some areas that need attention, but other than that, it goes like a charm. Some of the issues can be seen below:

As you can see, the tow cable and rod racks don't fit properly with the locating gaps and I know this issue is carried forward to the latest Dragon Mid Tiger (6700).


The yellow patches are zimmerit to cover some gaps or areas (rear panel) where there was not zimmerit at all.
One last issue was with the instructions regarding the assembly sequence of the commander's cupola, which are just a copy paste from another kit with a wider opening on the turret roof

Regarding the overall condition, I wanted relatively clean and tidy finish, but in reality, Tiger 217 under Otto Carius's command was pretty banged up, there were huge patches of zimmerit scrapped off and I could not replicate such damage on the kit's pre-moulded zimmerit

HTH

Nice to see one, lacking months of mud. What brand of paint did you use? Should the balkenkreuz have a tilt to them? I know very little about Tigers, but am constantly trying to expand my knowledge.

Very impressive! Did you work from a photo? I noticed the missing road wheels.

I read TIGERS IN THE MUD and appreciate this model.

Hi Christos,

Very nice built. I like the painting job and appreciate it is not excessively weathered, as the Tiger 217 under Otto Carius's command was, as far we can see from the pictures. Also the missing road wheels are according to the pictures.
Great job. Thanks for posting.

Cheers
Giovanni

Thank you all very much for the thumbs up and the kind comments, much appreciated!

Matt,
There was not supposed to be a tilt, but when I realised, it was too late to fix. It could be a posibility though; many panzers were repainted on the field. The colours I used where tamiya's dark yellow for the base and gunze's choco brown and olive green for the camo.

Frederic,
All 502nd Tigers had the outer front wheels removed as mud would build up and froze, hence disabling the Tiger by locking the front wheels with the sprockets. The burnt out wheel is captured on a photo of Tiger 217 during the Narva offensive and missing middle wheel is artistic license; got the idea from Wittmann's Tiger S04

Giovanni,
I tried to be as accurate as possible with this build and I believe I did good!