My current work in progress: Academy Tiger 1 early w/ interior

Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 19, 2004 3:33 PM

Man that Tiger is grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!
Sign - Welcome [#welcome]

to FSM.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 19, 2004 3:14 PM

Welcome!

Super job on the Tiger! I had a lot of fun building the kit also... another one of those 'must have' kits for armor modelers.

Ron

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 19, 2004 9:03 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Rainer Rohde

Here's a quick update on my work in progress.. nothing fancy, as I am still waiting on Fruils and some more Tamiya Brass Shells.... :

Hey Rainer, your buildup of that kit is very impressive. It makes me want to finally build mine!

If you haven't already bought them, may I suggest instead of the Friuli treads the WWII Productions resin treads? I've had some friuli treads that have been fine and some that caused me nothing but misery, but I greatly prefer the WWII Prod treads to even the best Friuli experience, because they don't quadruple the weight of the kit like the Friuli do!

And WWII makes Tiger I treads ... I've got a set!

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 18, 2004 8:00 PM

Looking real good Rainer.

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spector822002

Member since
December 2003
From: Southern Maine

Pics of my almost complete Jagdtiger

Posted by spector822002 on Sunday, April 18, 2004 3:51 PM

Kool Stuff ! And fine paintwork , gotta love a tank with all the fixin's , That camo job is great ,looks like a kursk tiger scheme .

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 18, 2004 3:07 PM

Here's a quick update on my work in progress.. nothing fancy, as I am still waiting on Fruils and some more Tamiya Brass Shells.... :

http://www.wwiiscalemodels.com/cgi-wwii/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=80&t=000014#000000

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 1, 2004 2:57 PM

I have the same kit and am currently in the process of assembly. Thank you for the link to your site! It has answered more than a few questions and saved me a few hours of detective work. keep up the good work. Oh yeah, some of the pics seem a little dark to pick out detail but nonetheless a fine job!

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 1, 2004 9:39 AM

Wow that is great Cool [8D]

allways nice to see another tiger fan

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 1, 2004 7:50 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by cmtlu

Good Job Rainer Rohde!

You have made a great detailing work during assembly. I am looking forward to see it painted totally.

Anyway, for all Tiger fanatics specially....

Have you seen the Tiger one published in AFV magazine last issue???

Please take a look!

www.afvmodeller.com

Thas Tiger caused a hot discussion in Missing Links some months ago. Obviously this guy will have BIG problems for painting it so accurately as his assembly work, I guess.....

Enjoy modeling!
Lu

Glad you like it :)

I saw that Tiger and, oh boy, what an awesome showcase! But painting it will be tricky, as he will find out. That's why , even on my mildly detailed Tiger I had to paint as I go... not my favourite thing to do, but I had to..... Came out allright.... I'd say... :)

Of course, I could have went crazy super detailing everything, but then again, the kit itself captures plenty of detail already, minus some of the more obvious things that I pointed out in my 'blog.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 1, 2004 7:42 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by okieboy

Hey Rainer,

Welcome to the forum. That is an outstanding Tiger you have there. I really like the paint scheme you've got going. Did you use an airbrush with a mask, or just the airbrush? By the way, how's Norman these days? That's where my Alma Mater is. I sure miss my home state.

Okieboy

I used the "freehand" method with my Paasche VL ( #3 needle).

About Norman: Same as always I guess... but I only lived there since 2000, before that I was in OKC, coming from Germany in 1997... :)

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 1, 2004 7:40 AM

Good Job Rainer Rohde!

You have made a great detailing work during assembly. I am looking forward to see it painted totally.

Anyway, for all Tiger fanatics specially....

Have you seen the Tiger one published in AFV magazine last issue???

Please take a look!

www.afvmodeller.com

Thas Tiger caused a hot discussion in Missing Links some months ago. Obviously this guy will have BIG problems for painting it so accurately as his assembly work, I guess.....

Enjoy modeling!
Lu

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Build22

Member since
May 2003
From: Upstate NY

Posted by Build22 on Thursday, April 1, 2004 5:49 AM

Nice job, Rainer ! Thumbs Up [tup]

You're other works are nice as well

Jim [IMG]

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okieboy

Member since
July 2003
From: USA

Posted by okieboy on Thursday, April 1, 2004 1:06 AM

Hey Rainer,

Welcome to the forum. That is an outstanding Tiger you have there. I really like the paint scheme you've got going. Did you use an airbrush with a mask, or just the airbrush? By the way, how's Norman these days? That's where my Alma Mater is. I sure miss my home state.

Okieboy

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm." George Orwell

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tigerman

Member since
March 2003
From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

Posted by tigerman on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:17 PM

Okay, you have my full attention! Looking good so far Rainer Rohde. Welcome to the the forums and the Dark Side.

Eric

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:01 PM

Again, thanks for the warm welcome and praise.. Quite a few fellow modelers here.... !! :D

I will keep you updated on the work-in-progress during the remaining stages!

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:36 PM

A very nice looking Tiger you have going there!

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Dwight Ta-ala

Member since
July 2003
From: Philippines

Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:22 PM

Welcome to the forum. That's one impressive work you got there.

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beav

Member since
May 2003
From: Ft. Sill, OK

Posted by beav on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:17 PM

wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now, just leave, before you become too obsessed with seeing 5 Big shiny red stars below your name-like the rest of us...
lol
wish I could do stuff on that magnitude!

"First to Fire!"

Steven

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:54 PM

Thanks! I am/was working on this kit. I hit kind of a stall, and this gave me some motivation to continue! The insight and proplem solving is exactly what I was looking for!

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mark956

Member since
February 2003
From: USA

Posted by mark956 on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:52 PM

Welcome to the armor forum Rainer.
Excellent looking Tiger.
mark956

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shermanfreak

Member since
January 2003

Posted by shermanfreak on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 3:42 PM

Welcome to FSM Rainer Rohde.

Very impressive work you have going with your Target, I mean Tiger.

Please keep us posted with your progress.

Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 3:06 PM

I have that kit too and Im just waiting for my skills to get alittle better before I get to it ( dont want to let a tiger go to waste). Any way nice work Im new here too and you wont find a better bunch of folks in any forum around. THEY ROCK!!! Bow [bow]