hi to all you beautiful people of the modelling world.
I'm building Dragon's Jagdtiger Henschel production type (dragon box no:6285) for a diorama project. by the way I want to ask you about if this dio scene is possiple. I'm planning to put a jagdtiger on a railroad and also the track in one side is damaged and the crew is trying to rapair the tracks. I'll be glad if you help me if this scene is possible or not.

For this dio scene I thought the suspension bars must be movable so I can make the wheels position according to the ground shape. And for the damaged tracks I have to make this track parts movable. so the story begins

and some photo of my progress:

Off to a good start!

Are you planning on making the whole track moveable!? That my friend would be a spectacular accomplishment!


cheers from the mudpit

thanks a lot. No, I'm not going to make the whole track movable. Just a few plates in the front of the left side. the crew is going to change a plate there.

looking forward to the finished product...sounds great so far

the project is going slowly because I'm working on 8 kits at the same time. (they were started 7-8 months ago )

hi Burak
You have a good start. It;s really cool to make to wheel movable.
But I think if you make all of them movable, the tank may not stand on the desk, instead, it will lie on the desk.
Zhengmu

Burak: Looking good! I'm just starting a build on this kit myself

Two thoughts for you:
A) Would you be willing to post a short video from the inside of the working suspension in action for us?
B) Just a thought- I am using Friulmodel tracks for my kit and I am using straight pins (used for tailoring) to pin the tracks together. You may want to try them out on your Magic Track.

thanks for the thoughts. I'll try straight pins at tracks. I'll keep on working on the tracks tomorrow.

I was looking for previous topics on the forum and I saw this topic. I remembered I was building a jagdtiger

Oh that's scary, I'm hoping that I don't ever end up "forgetting" a build

Looking forward to seeing how things turn out.

Now this is a project. Even making a few links movable is going to be quite a challenge. The work on the suspension looks great, the tracks look promising.

Wow. It's been long time since I started this project( 4 years). My father got pancreas cancer and we lost him a year ago. So I had to stop modelling for a while.

I'm trying to warm up again with trying to finish previously started models. I made a little progression on this model. To finish this project quickly I cancelled movable suspension ( I'll make it on another model later, maybe a Kingtiger project)
I replaced plastic side skirts with Voyager Model Kingtiger/Jagdtiger side skirts (PEA 35031)

I used RB model 12.8 cm Pak44/2 jagdtiger barrel which has a fine rifling detail. I applied primer and made preshading with a mixture of acrylic black and dark brown color mixture. Then I applied a mixture of tamiya XF59-XF60-XF2 colors as base color.

I choose XF61 dark green and XF64 red brown for camoflage.

i like that camo!!

Thanks David.

Nice free-hand job!

I did NOT say 'nice free hand-job'!