Hi all,

I'd like you to meet my King Tiger with a brand new look. My first ambush scheme so far! Please take a look at the pics and leave any comments

















Weathering will follow later. More pics, as well as all the pics of the progress on my KT from the start can be found on my website under campaigns

Greetings,
Martin

btw, I notice I've forgotten to select the AO group for this thread, can I still select this group somehow?

Greetings

I think this is a very sweet build. Very nice work on the camo. Can't wait to see more..
Mary

Martin, you have done an excellent job with this king tiger all the way along. I think the camo is great and cant wait to see you weatehr it. I am looking forward to the next step. Oh time to start on the figs Cheers Kevin

It need a lot and a lot of washes mate :-) :-)
Nice tank.
I like your camo, its a real beauty.

Nice tank martin, I need to practice a lot before I can do that kind of ambush schemes.
And is the king tiger from DML.

greetz Rob!

Yep the Dragon nr 6208 kit

Thanks for all the replies!!

wow martin it look`s verry good and the tracks are al so verry nice

Greetz Rowan

Thanks Rowan!

More pics will follow tommorow

Good to go Martin! I'm usually not a big fan of German armor but you've got a hit on your hands there.

Martinnnn -

Very excellent build and that "Ambush scheme" really comes across well. I'm working on the Tamiya "Ardennes Front" for my "AGE 2" project and will use the examples in Steve Zaloga's "Battle of the Bulge" book from Concord. Thanks for providing another great example. Hoping mine comes out as well.

Blade48mrd

Super outstanding Tiger Martin! And very artistic painted. Well done mate!

Cheers ,

Garry
P.S. Where's the anchor?

Very good ambush sheme, i think when you weather it nice it will be a winner!

keep up the good work! :-)

Hahaha you're a funny guy Garry :-) :-) :-)




Yes.....if.... :-)

We'll see today. It's 09:30 here now, and this day, I'll see if I can complete.....or at least most of the weathering.

Greetings!

Looking good mate! i really like the camo!
cheers

12:00 Ok first wash is drying now.....let's see how it comes out :-)

edit: (13:00) hmmm the smell of a fresh wash.....you can smell it in our entire house (which doesn't make me populair here haha)

edit: (15:00) FRESH AIR! FRESH AIR! WHERE IS IT? AAAH

edit: (15:50) Very cold in my room now....but I just had to ventilate it because the white spirit smell was unbelievable haha :-)

Yo Martinn,

nice and clean ambush scheme...
so how was the blue tac job??

Pretty good. The first attempt didn't got me the results I wanted to see, so I have used your methode twice :-) It came out nicely the second time. Dots are handpainted.

Thanks again for sharing your technique, it takes some time but it really gives nice results!

Greetings,
Martin

great paint job. can you tell me what brand of paints you used and what color is that red burgundy color?

All painted in Tamiya Acrylics. The red base colour is XF-9 hull red, like the factory primer that the Germans used. The sand is Tamiya XF-60 dark-yellow and the green is Tamiya XF 58 olive green.

For the weathering, I use oil paints. Colours for the tracks can be found in this article

Greetings

Woohooo thats a big kitty there and a nice fur on it !!!! Nice clean build and the ambush scheme does look good. I am expecting for progress in weathering this one and finishing it . Very very cool build

Weathering is almost done...just some rust on the exhaust pipes and maybe a little on the rest of the tank!

I'll finish tommorow, will post some pics then too!

Hmm maybe it's an idea to submit this one for a on-display model...if all your reactions are still as positive as now after the weathering :-)

Greetings,
Martin