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@Eddy
Thanks a lot mate! Explication are clear and will be applied. I think a 0.5 rod will do for the case. Where did you get those images? They are clear and so crisp.
Thanks again it solved my problem.
– Philippe,
As I had mentioned earlier in the post I do not have access to my reference material so I did a search for pictures of Tiger I’s using Yahoo. After grabbing up some good examples I used Photoshop to edit the pictures for clarity, contrast and cropping and pixel sized them to present them here, the original pics were somewhat dark. Your selection of the rod size to render the spare antenna case looks true to scale. BTW I liked how you took the time to open up the solid molded outer drive wheel halves, nice touch! I also like how you applied the Zimmerit paste, although you may what to think about adding some diluted putty (liquid cement) with a brush to fill in some of the deep recesses should you create this feature on anther German tank again, otherwise it looks the bomb. Philippe the track seems to be separating away from the left drive sprocket, have your crew member ease up on the power. I’d leave it this way as this did occur on the real vehicles with the resulting issue of sheering sprocket teeth off in the process.
Very skillfully applied camouflage scheme. And excellent explanation on how you applied it, thanks – noted! Oh Philippe you’re going to hate me for this but I don’t believe that the gun barrel on the Tiger tank showed any metal wear from recoil as on the American Sherman tanks? David where are you? Give us a proper explanation! The base looks most excellent and realistic at that . . .
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Hey Eddy, nice explanation of the case. Love those skewed wheels though, I can imagine the uproar if a model showed up with anything looking even remotely
out of alignment, just goes to show anything’s possible!!!
– Brent,
If anyone’s going to be presenting a model that would cause an uproar it would be a good idea to have an accompanying photograph to avoid a lengthy and awkward discussion to justify as to the why, least yea fall victim to ‘really, sure, I see . . . hummm!’
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The antenna case actually overhang the rear wall in the original Tigers. They turned it around when the S-mines were added.
– David
Thanks for correcting and clearing that up for me as I don’t have my reference material at hand for now. And thanks for the photograph with the dimentions – noted! Now I remember putting together an initial production vehicle with just this feature . . .
Still need to finish this kit, hihi!!!
~ Eddy
