Hi all!
I´d like to show you my latest model completed, a Tiger I early, it´s a Tamiya 70´s mold, and I really had to work on it to bring it to more or less today´s standard, but I´m happy with the end results, check yourself and let me know what do you think!











Cheers!

Looking good Paulo, Hope I can make my panther look half as good as that.
Interesting camouflage, Dark Yellow and Panzer Grey, Which tank unit does 811 represent ?? and when ??
Greetings.

Looks great dude, I lve the chipping, How did you do that? The mud loks great, gives the impression its been rolling around in muck lately.

Great job Paulo...congrats..


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Great looking tiger.
the weathing and the chiped paint is done great
and like the others said the camo patten is cool.
keep up the great work

looks really good, better than my models all together :-)

I like what you have done with the brackets for the cable on the side of the hull, but on the left front, just in front of the towcable, are the brackets for the 'nahverteidigungs waffen', which I don't think were present on the ealy Tiger. I might be wrong do, and somebody is bound to point this out either way.
I also like the damage to the exhaust screens, looks good.

Cheers
Henk

Nice Tiger! Way better than my own :-)

About the camo: this scheme was used early in the summer of 1943. Don't know whether it's used during the Kursk battle though....I like this sceme too, was planning to use it on a Demag with 5cm PAK.

Greetings,
Martin

Good looking Tiger you have there, excellent work as usual. Did you use fruils?

Great Tiger.

I like the chips on it

Nicely weathering too.. the camo also.
actually the whole tank is great

Greetz Hilbert

I'm no Tiger expert, but it looks darned good to me!

Thanks all for replying!
mossieramm: This tank was suppose to be at Kharkov - Kursk area, around end of 1942 and beggining of 1943, with the Schwere SS-Panzer Abteilung 102 (sSSPzAbt. 102) 2. SS Panzergrenadier Division "Das Reich", on the the very Kursk battle these tabks were renumbered with S01, S02 and so on...
airwarrior: For the chip pain, no tricks here, just get your rust color (you name it, I prefer the brown shades) and with a thin pointed brush and very diluted, just pick some small areas at time randomly, but try to focus on these cracks would occur on the real vehicle, wacht out to not overdo it...
Henk: As matter of fact I di´dn´t know what was it for , so I can´t tell you if it´s wrong or not, sorry!
JimF: Not! I didn´t use it, I did use the Academy link by link set, designed for it´s Tiger I.
Thanks for all!

Excellent job!!!
Man I can learn from you!!!
Thanks~
Ron Hoover

Hey Paulo ...Very nice job on bringing this old kit into the 21st century...Nice camo (even if you did chicken out on TIKI ) I'm just kidding you Paulo.... It is very representative of the Das Reich tigers in the spring of 43 ...The only thing that may not be very accurate are the gun cleaning rods ...there should only be two on the left side of the tank when standing on the tank looking forward and three on the right side but I can over look this if you can .. And the tow ropes should have brackets on either side of the gun cleaning tubes.
Excellent job sir keep up the good work.

all the best
Rick

Hi Rick!
I know of these flaws, but since the cleaning are made into the tank and I scrap it, I had to use ones that came with the Panzer IV set from Tamiya, I know it was a short cut, but....
The same goes to the brackets for the tow ropes....
Thanks on pointing that, cheers!

Ciao Paolo,
Absolutely gorgeous! Wonderful job, and I love the way you weathered your tank! Compliments!!
Ciao for now
Rob

Just awesome, camo, weathering everything is perfect.

Greetz Rob!

Ax excellent tiger! some small details which others already pointed out, but overall i like it very much!

Thanks for all kind words!
Cheers

Outstanding looking Tiger Paulo How were the Academy links to build?

great looking tiger, i like the way the chips are done, but they seem a bit overdone, but thats just me, overall i think you've done a good job with it
-shain

Thanks!
Dominique, I really liked your comments, that´s the kind of harsh words I like to hear to keep me moving and improving, how is that technique of wash with pigments and hair drier? I never heard about that....

Chad, the academy lynks are a pain in the arse to clean all the ejector pins, but they are great after finished!

Cheers

Hi Dominique!
Thanks for the tips!
But I really didn´t get how you use the pigments, and I´d like to know if I could use dry pastels instead! Because it´s hard to get pigments from this side of the pound, you what I mean?
If you could detail your technique a little bit, feel free to contact me via email:
[email protected]
My regards and thanks again!