In January 1943, just months after the entry into service of the Tiger I, the German Army issued the request for a new heavy tank with a turret capable of accommodating the powerful 88 mm gun long 71.2 calibers. The design contract was given to the two best research divisions then available: the Porsche and Henschel, Henschel and was the model to be successful given the characteristics of reliability and ease of production from this project was born on Tiger II or King Tiger. The production of the Tiger II was launched in Kassel in December 1943 alongside that of Tiger. The first 50 production vehicles were completed with the Porsche turret, all the wagons then mounted the Henschel turret, and were built in total 485.
To make this model I used the Tamiya kit 35169 which I believe is certainly not the best on the market, let's all there is much work to do to make a decent model.
The first thing you notice is missing the Zimmerit; photogravures on the market can be found to solve the problem but I preferred the sound and the old stucco Milliput white as a sheet which should be spread over the parties and then goes recorded with a small screwdriver cut, the texture will be illegal in some places but I think we earned the realism.
Another flaw of the kit is the lack of grid engine and here too can be remedied or fotoincisi with a set of dedicated or tulle, I opted for the cheap tulle ^ _ ^
The cane is a reference Jordi Rubio, I have opted for the TG-06 version that was equipped with Late of the medium while for those who want to play the early version is the TG-14.
Finally, the last improvement is that the tracks were replaced with those produced by FriulModel; I mistakenly installed the ATL-22 believing that the series Porsche mount only these being the first production models while after reading this discussione sul forum di Zimmerit ho scoperto l'errore. In pratica volendo eralizzare una versione Late ho montao i cingoli di un Early mentre avrei dovuto montare gli ATL-37 che invece sono adatti ad un Late.
Beh casini a parte questo è ciò che ne è uscito:
To make this model I used the Tamiya kit 35169 which I believe is certainly not the best on the market, let's all there is much work to do to make a decent model.
The first thing you notice is missing the Zimmerit; photogravures on the market can be found to solve the problem but I preferred the sound and the old stucco Milliput white as a sheet which should be spread over the parties and then goes recorded with a small screwdriver cut, the texture will be illegal in some places but I think we earned the realism.
Another flaw of the kit is the lack of grid engine and here too can be remedied or fotoincisi with a set of dedicated or tulle, I opted for the cheap tulle ^ _ ^
The cane is a reference Jordi Rubio, I have opted for the TG-06 version that was equipped with Late of the medium while for those who want to play the early version is the TG-14.
Finally, the last improvement is that the tracks were replaced with those produced by FriulModel; I mistakenly installed the ATL-22 believing that the series Porsche mount only these being the first production models while after reading this discussione sul forum di Zimmerit ho scoperto l'errore. In pratica volendo eralizzare una versione Late ho montao i cingoli di un Early mentre avrei dovuto montare gli ATL-37 che invece sono adatti ad un Late.
Beh casini a parte questo è ciò che ne è uscito:
Il carro è stato colorato in dunkelgelb usando l'Humbrol 83 per riprodurre un carro operante in Normandia nel '44; i danni alla zimmerit sono stati riprodotti col rosso-minio mentre con una mistura di stucco a base acquosa, vinavil e sassolini d'acquario per pesci rossi ho riprodotto Mud on the tracks and across the lower half of which I then colored with various shades of brown and finished with MIG pigments old mud. Finally, after a series of washes with oil paint diluted with petrol zippo I played the scrapings of a pencil with silver bought in a shop of fine arts.
good model to all
Char
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