Coen this Tiger I is for you bud!!- Dragon #6253 1/35 late

[Coen]

I'm with Michaal on that one Art! You certanly made it look effortless.
It's wonderful.

[Nige99]

Fantastic work Art it looks flipping awesome mate!! Loving all the work bench etc. The level of detail you've put into this is great! That crane wow!!!

[rodrant]

Wow !!!!

This one is just great ! Amazing idea and by the looks of it a great Diorama here

This is Quality stuff mate !

[Art17847]

Thanks guys for all the kind words....this has been a lot of fun so far and one of the biggest projects I have attempted .....half way there now!!!

[Aliktren]

havent been watching the tank builds much because, well, they are tanks!!, but this is amazing work!!!

[psydeviant]

holy crap we got a winner right here

[Art17847]

Small update.....got a start on my tiger....got the suspension in and wheels sorted out

One unstarted dragon kit 6953...this kit is loaded with all the goodies u could ever want except one thing zimmerit .....so I will b using the stickers that tamiya makes





So the stickers r a little hard to work with as they r not laser cut on the sheet so u have to cut them out by hand which can
B a pain when trying to make circular cuts....so these stick real good the adhesive seems strong and what I did was clean the area of the plastic with an alcohol prep which made it stick really good .....the look is pretty good I think

[Coen]

Even though it says so right in the title of your build Art, I'd forgotten that you were using 6253 as your tiger kit.

Just when I thought that your build couldn't get any more challenging WOW.
Enjoy that kit bud, she's a beauty.

[Art17847]

Even though it says so right in the title of your build Art, I'd forgotten that you were using 6253 as your tiger kit.

Just when I thought that your build couldn't get any more challenging WOW.
Enjoy that kit bud, she's a beauty.

O I will enjoy every bit of it.....I have had this kit in the stash since 2005 just waiting for the rite time to build her.....I must say I have never seen so much stuff jambed in a 1/35 scale kit before....this will b my first tiger and I will doing it as a late version so if u could plz watch out for any mistakes I make cuz I really want to do this rite....

[Coen]

I'll do what I can Art, feel free to ask questions too bud.
Pm me any time.

[Art17847]

More build progress........




More to follow shortly stay tuned.....

[Art17847]

Building away.......

[Coen]

Fast!!!! Wow. Waste not time Art. haha.

[Art17847]

Fast!!!! Wow. Waste not time Art. haha.

I'm getting there so far its been going smoothly...(knocks on wood)

[Hillbilly]

That Tigger is coming together real nice...and fast too

[Art17847]

That Tigger is coming together real nice...and fast too

Little by little .....hope to get the build complete this week then on to paint ...

[Art17847]

Moving along ......engine painted and installed


Barrel assembled and coated in zimm

[Art17847]

Working on turret now....starting to look like a tiger now.....

[Hillbilly]

Nice and clean build It's really looking the part now.

[Art17847]

So things were moving along without much problems but then it happened.....I somehow managed to throw out a sprue I thought had nothing I needed on it but it turns out it had the lower brackets for the spare tracks that mount to the turret... ...so I ended making some with some left over PE.....speaking of PE I found out quickly I'm not very good at using it...I tired desperately to make the fenders with PE but only managed to glue the pieces to my fingers or tweezers. I was close to melt down and just gave up and used the plastic ones...finished the turret up and started on the tracks got one side down which are the magic tracks then started to beat her up a bit....I bent up fenders and exhaust covers and plan on doing more like chip the zimm and bend up turret tool box....here's pics of where I'm not now almost done

[Coen]

It's too bad about the missing track holders. Nice save with the scratch built ones though Art.
Well done on that.
She looks excellent.

[Art17847]

Painted tank commander who will sitting by waiting for his tank to be repaired....tried to do late war ss fall camo......its real hard to see cuz this crappy camera but there r dots there...will get better pics for reveal

[Coen]

WOW! That looks cool Art. Too bad about the blurriness.
What will he be sitting in? I'm just curious as I don't remember seeing a chair or anything in your pile of goodies.

[Hillbilly]

Even with the blurry pic he looks good to me.

[Art17847]

WOW! That looks cool Art. Too bad about the blurriness.
What will he be sitting in? I'm just curious as I don't remember seeing a chair or anything in your pile of goodies.

Gonna sit him on top of a crate