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rtvmodeler

Member since
May 2003
From: Mexico

Tiger I, Initial - DAK - Finished!

Posted by rtvmodeler on Friday, June 7, 2013 1:19 AM

Smile Hello friends!

Model finished.

Tamiya, 1/35 - Tiger I, DAK - Abteilung 501

You can see my Work in Progress here:

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/3/t/151892.aspx?sort=ASC&pi240=1

Regards!
Rodolfo

Tags: DAK , tiger

Current Project:

Figures from Dragon, "German 6th Army, Stalingrad 1942-1943", 1/35

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garzonh

Member since
March 2013
From: Puebla, Mexico

Posted by garzonh on Friday, June 7, 2013 6:25 AM

Hi my friend.

Excellent, you work fast!

Everything looks great, may I suggest something?. The tank commander looks somehow very clean, I will suggest more dirty on his clothes and on him. Other than that, I liked very much the overall weathering and the bullets on the turret.

Saludos,

Hugo

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Tojo72

Member since
March 2003
From: Western North Carolina

Posted by Tojo72 on Friday, June 7, 2013 6:37 AM

great looking build

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disastermaster

Member since
July 2003
From: On my kitchen counter top somewhere in central North Carolina.

Posted by disastermaster on Friday, June 7, 2013 4:03 PM

A very excellent result.

Nice touch with the drivers viewport.

The blending of the overall dirt and dusting is super.

My two suggestions for improvement would

be........

dimming that shining turret decal.

AND (it might just be the angle I'm viewing it from - hard to distinguish)

..........relaxing the rise of that heavy track as it is coming off of the drive sprocket.

⬇

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rtvmodeler

Member since
May 2003
From: Mexico

Posted by rtvmodeler on Saturday, June 8, 2013 12:45 AM

Smile Thanks for your kind comments and observations friends!.

@ garzonh.- I applied a light weathering on the Commander, but really not all the Commanders were dirty

@ disastermaster.- The intensity of the light caused the effect, but in a normal view the border of the decal is imperceptible, regarding the wheel I glued it again.

Regards!
Rodolfo

Tags: tiger , DAK

Current Project:

Figures from Dragon, "German 6th Army, Stalingrad 1942-1943", 1/35

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wbill76

Member since
July 2004
From: Texas

Posted by wbill76 on Saturday, June 8, 2013 11:50 AM

Always a treat to see one of your finished builds Rodolfo. Nice work on the DAK Tiger! Yes

BP Models

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jgeratic

Member since
April 2006
From: ON, Canada

Posted by jgeratic on Saturday, June 8, 2013 2:04 PM

Nice one! Yes

For the figure, a blast of flat spray will do wonders to make it appear dirty.

regards,

Jack

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f8sader

Member since
May 2004
From: Mount Bretherton Model Aircraft Observatory

Posted by f8sader on Saturday, June 8, 2013 2:25 PM

An excellent build of my favorite Tiger version! It must be a photographic flash reflection, or is that a Cylon in the drivers position in the first photo?

Lon-ski