Tamiya 35227 initial tigertiger

It depends on what decent means to you.  Being Tamiya, it will be an enjoyable kit to build, shouldn't be any problems.  It is a dated kit, the original tooling is from 1969, while this particular boxing had some new parts added (1998).

Read here and decide if the inaccuracies are not a dealer breaker, or if you want to incorporate some or all them into the build:

http://tiger1.info/models/products-page/TAM35227

regards,

Jack

Thanks Jack!  I'm doing some research between tamiya and the dragon 6608.  

Thanks,

Matt

Hi Matt,
As Jack allredy suggested, define decent ;)
The Tamiya Kit is a nice build, goes together well.
But decent in terms of accuracy - it is not.

Been offline for a while and am not up to speed with the most recent releases but for accuracy I would go for the Dragon # 6600 for the Initial.

If what you are looking for is the T1 mid I suggest Dragon #6700.

Go to http://tiger1.info , David Byrden's fact-collection is a must if you are looking for accuracy and very helfull!

Best Regards

Johan

I'm looking for accuracy so I'm leaning towards either the dragon 6600 or 6608. Thank you for the links I will check them out.

Matt

You need to decide what you want to build sine the vehcles are actually very different.
6600 and 6608 are both excellent kits; 

Best Regards
Johan

I'll do some more research and decide.  Both kits should work with Friulmodel Alt-116, as I have a box of those.  Those are the mirrored tracks for the initial version.  I currently have Dragon's 6820 Tunisia Early Tiger 1, so I'll probably try the 6600.

Matt

About the mirrored tracks, from what I've read only the first 20 production Tigers had these.  This style was abandoned because it was too much trouble to carry two types of spare tracks on the vehicles.

Beginning late August 1942, chassis numbers 250011 thru 250020 were indeed delivered to the 501st earmarked for Tunisia.  Question is, did these ten Tigers retain these original tracks, or swap them out before shipping to Africa in November.

regards,

Jack 

jgeratic

It is a dated kit, the original tooling is from 1969, while this particular boxing had some new parts added (1998).

This kit bears little resemblance to the old '60's kit - the breakdown is completely different. It's based on the 90's new tool kits.

Hi Phil, thank you for pointing this out.  My mistake was based on the chart associated with 35227 over at Scalemates, and none of the lineage indicated new tool.

regards,

Jack

Mirrored tracks never appeared in Africa.

David 

Byrden

Mirrored tracks never appeared in Africa.

David 

 

David, right on que - thanks for that.

regards,

Jack

Thank you for all the help!  I got the mirrored friul tracks from a friend getting out of the armor building and would like to use those. Dragon's 6600 kit seems to be right as it gives the option to use mirrored tracks.  I'm still researching which version to make as the kit has three options.

-Matt

The kit's instructions are pretty clear about that.

David 

Great!  Thank you everyone, I look forward to this build!