Nice job on the zimmerit, Axel. Looks good under a coat of paint.

Beautiful interior, Graham. The stacks of ammo really looks brutal in a good way.

Looking forward to see more.

Can anyone tell me what the device in the circle is? Is that a fire extinguisher? What color should it be?

Axel, I believe it's a fire extinguisher. Not sure about colours, though - I've seen them painted grey on some models, so that's what I tend to do...

Tom

Hi Axle ...Yes it is a fire extinguisher and most times it seems to be the color of the vehicle but dark grey was seen as well ...No red on the exterior ones please!

Nice work here guys

@ Alex, nice job on the zim what type of roller tool did you use, do you have a picture of it

@ Graham, that ammo is looking great

@Tom and Richard: Thank you guys for the heads up on the fire extinguisher.

@Sal: I got it from Squadron, forgot who makes it. Pic below.

after goin cross eyed on all the ammo i decided to take a break and do some on the upper hull, and hatchs.





the buggas dont give you the driver and radio op periscopes? that sucks , unless they were'nt in place all the time? i got no idea every other tank i have ever built has them.
probably trumpy at its best again
might have to just make a coupke least thers only two lol.
cheers,
Graham

Hi i hope you had a good weekend, i worked with the paint of my elephant, over the fist coat with dunkelgelb, airbrush the camo squeme with panzer olivegrun and rot braun.

And finally airbrush again with dunkelged with a distance of 30 cm a ligth coat of paint to make soft the edges of the camouflage colors, maybe yiu can see the diferences the the upper photo is without the final coat and the next photos are with the coat.



The next step will be a white wash for winter camo, what do you thinck about the haispray technique, i woulde like to use it.

some progress, next set of pics will be zimmerit first attempt, sorry taken so long.

reb

blurred i know, but the zim went on well as did the observation ports provided by atak




thanks for the tip bear leading me to atak, great piece of workmanship!





thats it for now, am doing some painting and small construction.

reb
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Hi Reb...looking good (well a few pictures are a bit too blurry to tell ,but all in all the zimerit looks great ...glad I could help!
Keep the pictures coming ...

thanks bear, appreciate iy. the observation ports took some filing but was able to use the resi zimmerit for them. thanks again for your help.

reb

Excellent works friends!

@ Dani.- great weathering in your Sturmtiger!
@ Bruce D.- excellent weathering too, the invernal version is difficult to make.
@ Graham.- your big cat looks powerfull!
@ MAMOOTH.- ahi la llevas con el gigantón - great work!
@ Bas.- good start with the painting
@ Axel.- good work with the zimmerit and painting - Normally the extinguisher has the color of the tank and some times was part of the camo.

Soon I will start my Tiger, now I am finished my panzer IV.

Regards,
Rodolfo

thanks Rodolfo yeh tis big an powerful, its on hold as im waiting for some resin periscopes for it they should be here in couple weeks.
after finding out they dont surpply the two for the driver an radio op i bit the bullet and got some of David's the AVF guy hes got some totally awesome resin stuff for them, i couldnt be bothered making just two so his set has enough for all the periscopes on the tank and theres enough for noth the 1/16th KT's i have.
cheer,
Graham

Hello Again Everyone..

I am calling this project finished.. my final steps were some oil fading.. slight weathering and a dull coat..

Here it is..

Dragon's 1/72 Scale Tiger I Sd.Kfz. 181 Ausf. E Late Production with Zimmerit...









It is not that easy to get good photo's with this scale.. LOL

laters
Delbert..

Good work Delbert, beatiful tank.

Very nice Tiger!
Especialyl for that scale!
Good job done

started messin with the turret while i wait for the periscopes, hull top done apart from them , then i can join the hull for good finally.



cheers,
Graham

That's a nice clean build
That's a HUGE turret, 1:16 I bet?

yep Bas it is the 1/16th scale she's a big cat but its a pitty theres so ,amy silly mistakes in the kit you have to cut the turret ring out so the turret even fits plus bits they smpliy didnt supply.
i got a little painting done and the main gun is under way, still playing with the driveran radio op periscopes.
cheer.
Graham

Nice work Kiwi...but you're not selling me on putting up $400.00 for one of them...Looks like a real money pit if you want to do it right . keep up the good work.

Rick

yeh Richard ya right if i had known it was as bad as it is i wouldnt have got them either, generally the kit isnt bad but theres just too many silly mistakes on trumpeters part.
I think it'll end up ok in the end but not worth the money thats for sure, i really on kept them as i likt big scale stuff its easier to build sometomes.
cheers,
Graham

the exhaust is ab burnt iron courtesy modelmasters, first tiem with ab so lay it on if any ideas.




little different light here, the dirty yellow is courtesy tamiya.




this last is the fenders and the exhaust small covers, those small bolts on each side were the pits, all went well

more as i get er done.

reb

well heres a quick look at the complete turret interior you wont see it like this again
it glued together now , barrel on tomorrow night then the mammoth job of painting her begins.



cheers,
Graham

wowsers, lookin great! too bad you don't have a flip top so you could show that turret work, a masterpiece!

reb