hi men
here's a few pictures of my latest build dragon model's 1/35 tiger 1 late production.
i have added the atak resin damaged zimmerit set SE35-01 also a set of friulmodel tracks ATL-06 were added.i replaced the kit supplied tool clamps and exhaust shield's with aber items.the towing cable is made from 1.1mm karaya soft copper cable,hence there only being one its cheaper that way !! the spare track pins come from adlers nest and there is various photo etched parts that come from my stash.
the hull, turret & tracks were all primed with halford's automotive grey primer this brings the model together in one uniform colour.
base coat is vallejo model air sand yellow 028 next came vallejo model air dark green 012 and the last of the three tone camo comes from tamiya XF-68 nato brown.
the tracks were painted with vallejo panzer aces tracks primer 304 and then given a very thick wash with mig pigments consisting of dark mud p033 dry mud p232 and lastly gluf war sand p037 once dry the exces was rubbed of with a No 1 index finger lastly the tops of the tracks were rubbed over with a graphite pencil.
the running gear hull and turret all received a wash/filter of mig's excellant wash brown oil paint then once that had dried some more localised pin washes were used consisting of mig industrial earth oil paint with a little black oil to darken it down.the model then got attacked with the same pigments that i used on the tracks but in varying quantities and only dry brushed this time.
i hope that you enjoy my pictures........
neil....

Looks fine to me,nice work.
Oh just one thing in my minds eye anyway, it need a little more color
variation on the tracks.

Thanks for the show and tell
Tony

this is an excellent tiger, i love the way you painted the camo on the side so that the area where the fenders would have been is bare. i would reccomend a very small amount of dried mud on the tracks, rear, and front, but thats just down to personal taste.

Hi Neil! This is a really good looking Tiger! The worn and dusty look captures a long bloody battle in Normandy nicely! Are you putting it on a base or in a dio?

Excellent kitty! Phil.

hey neil thats a great tiger love your paintjob the exhaust covers look the biz how you achieve that rust effect thanks for sharing

Dang nice job Neil.
I like the look of it,only thing maybe which is open to discussion is when applying Zim the undercoat was Red Primer so chipping would show Red Primer.

But heck if yours is Repainted then good to go.

Strange how those things Squatted down on there Torsion Bars.

As you used Friul tracks a bath of Blacken-it would of helped on that.

Great job.

thank's for your interest men

hi tony
the reason for the tracks being the way they are is that i wanted to give the model an all over dusty look so the same pigments are used on the tracks as well as the rest of the tank....

hello luke
ah ha the tracks again dried mud maybe on the next one but this time lots of dust

alright phil !!
i have yet to try and make a base for one of my models you never know maybe one for a future build.

hello chicane
personally i think that i have over done the exhaust covers but all i used was some different shades of mig pigments browns and rust colours.

hi jeff
i didn't think it would be to long before the under zimm question came up.for me it has to be grey every time just for the reason that zimm was a paste and therefor it would have to be sticky so if some broke away maybe the part that had bonded to the steel would leave some of the grey paste behind. (i think )
sorry mate we don't get blacken-it here in england but i would love to give it a go.
thanks for your interest............
neil.

[quote sorry mate we don't get blacken-it here in england [/quote]

Oh yes we do, apparently.

Haven't contacted them to see if it's in stock though.

Blacken- It

Alan

Awesome!

Very, very nice job with the Tiger!

Strange indeed that you do not.

So some kind of Chemical threat or something.
The primer can be any thing you want it to be.
Great job of it is all.