Since I have very little time across town at my "airbrush station", I've had lots of plain building time lately. Here's tamiya's tiger initial production out of the box. She'll be sporting a commander of some sort in the hatch and probably some outdoor stowage. No idea when I'll get to paint it.....I already have five ahead of this one in the spray booth.....

Hola!

Would love to see it! Is it supposed to be pictures or a link in this post?

People worry about the different shades of green to get the Russian green right or the proper shade of olive drab ........ I thought at first that you built two kits ..... one in grey and one from a yellow plastic. Goes to show how the lighting effects the true picture!
Cool tank also .......... tigers are cool!

Amazing isn't it Plasticbattle? Those photos were all taken today......we have lots of sleet on the ground and overcast skies.......made for a wonderful bright but diffused light. They were taken maybe four hours apart in front of the same window with the same lights on in the room. I didn't mess with the color balance in photoshop at all, but it could probably be fixed if needed.

Great so far Grifter

Not bad man, i hope you like tje out come of the kit !!! stug

Very nice and clean built. I like it very much! Now, hurry up and paint this thing, can't wait!!!! #:-)

Looking good Greg :-)

One thing though Armo I think makes a barrel thought of using it?

Whoa, 5 waiting painted? I'd love to see aline up of all 6 at some stage.
Looking great so far......no PE?......at all??????????....Nothing????????
OK!

Looking goooood. I like the look of this kit. I am just finishing the Italeri and yours looks much better. Look forward to seeing it painted.

Roger

Very nice ...but it is so easy to do a good build when you start with a tamyia kit ..isn't it !! You got to love them!..I haven't gotten around to building this one yet...One thing I would add if I were you are the 4 supports that hold those spare tracks on the back of the kit ...They even show them on the box top ...Weird that they forgot to put them in the box...Which vehicle are you going to model?I can't wait to see it finished...Keep up the good work .

Richard

thanks for the comments guys.
I'll have to look at those brackets and see if it's something I think I can make Richard, thanks for pointing that out. I'm probably going to use one of the markings from the box although I'm not sure yet just which one. You are so right about the fit, this is one of the best fitting kits I've ever built....the other being the Tamiya Marder III released a few years ago.

Roger, if that Italeri kit you have is the same basic one as their Bergetiger, it can come out very nice also. I took my Bergetiger to Atlanta Model Expo because my girlfriend likes the camo and ended up placing second in my category. I thought it came out ok, but never thought it would win anything.

Jeff, nope I usually try to make the kit barrels look decent, if that fails, I'll go AM, but I can usually be pretty happy with the stock units.

Martin, I nearly forgot about the engine screens, they are Tamiya issue also but technically aftermarket. By the way, the package says they only fit mid and late models but they fit fine on the initial. Maybe they're not absolutely correct but oh well. I'd take a photo tonight of all the models in painting stage but they're not all here. My spray booth is across town and some are there but the list goes like this: Elephant (primered w/ partial base color), Panzer II d (primer only), Wespe (partially base colored), Hetzer (camo'd), E-100 ( base colored only), and now the Tiger and an M-88 on the way. Sucks having to drive across town to paint but I just don't have the room here for my paint booth.