Yet another kit bound for the wargaming table. This time a Tiger I H from the Stabskompanie of Schwere Panzerabteilung 505.

1/48th kit originally from Skybow although now owned and produced by AFV Club. Built OOB except for a PE mg belt and with hatches open to put crew in at some stage. A very easy kit to build with a few minor issues such as no hinges or periscopes for the front hatches and the tracks being a little tricky to join. Still got to add a piece of joining wire for the front light too ..........

cheers
Brent

Oh, very excellent work.
Miloslav

besides you did a great job on the model,
your pictures are of great quality!!

congrats

koen

Agreed -very nice piece of work and great photos too.

Very neat and nice work for a 48 scale tank. Thumbs up mate.

stunning looking tiger and the pictures are fantastic
well done
neil

Amazing work i love what you have done with this

Ron.

Beautiful!
I'll take your photos as a reference to paint my 1:35 late Tiger!

What Wargame are you playing that requires a 1/48th scale tank



MATT

Really really nice work there. You have achieved a great warm tone to the finish and the pictures are stunning.

Well done.

Hi Matt,

We use my own house rules but sets like Arc of Fire are aimed at 28mm / 1/48th skirmish wargaming. Gaming in this size is pretty common although like most people we currently use 28mm infantry as theres not a lot of choice in 1/48th yet. We had great hopes for the Tamiya plastics but they're just tooooo small.

Here a links to a group (no association but great looking games) that use 48th vehicles in case you'd like to have a snoop ......

http://cheminsdefeu.smugmug.com/

cheers
Brent

Thanks Brent


MATT

Its another winner from you Brent.
Can you tell us a little bit more about your setup for photographing the models?
camera? lens? aperture? shutterspeed? lights?

thanks, looking forward to more models from you!

Hi Mate,

My lighting set up is actually very simple and consists of ;

Overall set up, One overhead Fluro lamp, camera, tripod, backround. I plan on getting two more fluro lights this year for added fill lighting on each side.

I use a Sony F-828 8mpx digital SLR which adds to the pic quality as its a great camera. I use auto settings with the only changes being to use the macro setting and manually setting the F-Stop (apeture) to its max, f8 on my camera.



cheers
Brent

Thanks brent, that's very helpful...simple but effective!

Hey Brent could you type out the house rules that you have me and my friends want to get into this




MATT

Hi Matt,

I'll PM you with some more info. Basically my rules were designed for 20mm and are pretty detailed as thats my primary wargaming period.

I'd probably reccommend Arc-of-Fire as a starter to be honest then decide how much more (if any) detail you want.

I've attached a link to the AoF website plus SkirmishCampaigns which is a great series of generic WW2 gaming campaigns - and thoroughly reccomended (and no association!)

cheers
Brent

http://mysite.verizon.net/fisherts/skirmishcampaigns/aof/index.htm
http://mysite.verizon.net/fisherts/skirmishcampaigns/

Wow it looks like a 1/35 scale tiger.