was the famous tiger nicknamed tiki dark yellow with brown camo or grey camo????
i have seen 2 colour plates one with brown and one with grey,i hope its grey as tigers look great in a grey camo

cheers

hmmm you question sparks my interest too. I would like to know as well.

Karl, do you have a scan for the color plates?

WC

hi ben, here is just one plate of Tiki as the other site wont let me copy the image so instead ill give you the link to the page,its about half way down the page.



http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/tigers-02.htm

of all the model Tigers iv seen i have never saw anyone do this Tiger.

cheers karl

Hi Karl,

First of all thanks for the scan.

Ya know, I think the color is gray with yellow camo strip. The reason is because this tiger is an early version. From what I understand all the first issue Tigers have gray base color. The camo are usually improvised on the field.

I've seen two-tone camo with gray basecoat matching yellow, green, or white camo applied but never seen a brown Tiger.

That's my guessing.

WC

I don't know about the camo, but on this page there are four pictures of "Tiki " that may be helpfull;

http://www.alanhamby.com/gallery2.html

It would be interesting to see a model of this one.

Cheers,
Pascal

Here's a version of gray-yellow two tone color scheme.


Karl, it would be really interesting if you build this one.


http://www.alanhamby.com/paint/4ss43a1.jpg



WC

I have seen someone do this model a few years ago and I have already bought the Bison Decal sheet to build this one one of these days ...It is grey with dark yellow overspray ..one of the coolest camos around ..Have fun building yours and let's see some pictures of your build.

Rick

well i orded the tamiya early tiger with the bison decals,but its from hannants so i guess ill be waiting some time :-)

Never heard of the TIKI paint scheme before. Looks cool. Might have to paint one of my tigers with that scheme. Was TIKI used on Initial Tiger I's?

Brian, "Tiki" is the nickname of this perticular tiger. I believe there is only one "Tiki" out there. "Tiki" is an early version tiger

From what I read, "TIKI" is German slang for the word Tiger.

- Alan
Tiger I Information Center