MAD TIGER DAY Results.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Daveash Here is my completed effort. I have applied a water colour wash and some black pastel dust. I think the slight shine is from the camera flash.

I noticed the same thing with the photos of my Tiger. I real life mine is quite matte, but in my photos seemed a touch shiny. Still, that is quite a build you have there. I like your tracks, I think they have a nice weathered look, that I wasn't able to pull off on my build. Really well done.

Well Shrikes, it seems I think any aggravation caused by the tracks, would have to be at least somewhat offset by beautiful locale for your model building efforts. From what I can see in the photos, the other side looks pretty good, so maybe if you're creative you can repair or hide the flaws where the tracks didnt quite join.

Congrats on the Maddest Tiger of All.

Looks great Shrikes, you've earned the MTD mountain division badge! Thanks for being part of it. If you haven't yet, check out the in progress thread entitled, 'Gentlemen Start Your Maybachs,' it's a lot of fun.

QUOTE: Originally posted by tigerman Now you got to try Dragon Firefly indies in 1/35th!

No thanks, i've heard of those! I have a friend that bought one when we were in Highschool.... And he still isn't done with it!

Dave, that's a smart looking Tiger. That wash really worked well. Did you spray your camo?

Shrikes, that's a valient effort for a wingnut. LOL I don't think the tracks were your fault, seems many had poorly fitting ones. Now you got to try Dragon Firefly indies in 1/35th!

Honest...that looks like a clean build.

A few would be successful with indies on their first armor. You did good on that Kitty.

And of course I am trying to convert you. LOL.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Dwight Ta-ala Shrikes: That's a terrific looking build. You could be a full-time Armor modeler.

LOL!!! Now i know you're lying, my friend!

Trying to convert me, eh?

Shrikes: That's a terrific looking build. You could be a full-time Armor modeler.

Hey, fellas! sorry for the late reply, I've been real busy since sunday... Anyhoo, here's my entry, constructed while on vacation in the mountains of northern Philippines. Be kind, since i am more of a wingnut!

This is the view of the my temporary workbench with a great view and cool, clean air (quite a change from the smog-choked city).


And the Tiger:


Okay, so it isn't done. I spent a lot of time on the indy tracks. well, truth be told, i spent almost all of the time on the indy tracks! What masochistic nazi invented indy tracks anyway?!?

and look at the gap here:

was it just me, or are the supplied tracks insufficient to go all around the wheels? Also, some of the paint rubbed off where i handled it (probably when i was trying to get those damn tracks on. did i mention how annoying they are yet?), so I left off all the smallbits because i hand painted some of them and i wanted to fix them after doing another coat of the base color. I hope to finish it up sometime this week.

Mad Tiger Day was great fun! Hats off to Ausf!

I had the same idea Dave, to mount the MTD badge on a small plaque. I was sbout to offer you the full version of the badge (before resizing for the web) but I checked the file and it's only 28kb, not much of a difference.

Great effort, thanks for being part of it.

Looking good, Dave, and everyone else too - congrats to all on a fun and interesting build experience.

Here is my completed effort. I have applied a water colour wash and some black pastel dust. I think the slight shine is from the camera flash.









Total build time came in at 22 hours from start to finish

MTD+1: My Tiger got a primer coat. Found some info on the green Tigers in Tunisia, and that's what I'm going for... Need to get some paint though! I used a medium grey from Tamiya for the primer. I airbrushed the stuff and it came out real nice. I was a bit sceptical at first cause I've never had much success with Tamiya's range of paints.

Wow everyone those kits look great. For the time heck cant complain.

I'm impressed and enjoyed your progress and good cheer. You just proved it can be done.

Really nice work from everyone on this build.

Nice rebel!!! Did you do the zim with putty or get AM sheets? (sorry if you've answered this allready.). WAY better than what I did with the 1/72 indy treads around the idler wheel and sprocket! Awsome!
Ekkk! Look at mine! Great job everyone!

.Ausf, though I enjoyed it I'm not ready to go braille scale just yet. Too much interesting 1/35 on my shelves.
Phroosh, the problem wasn't the airbrush, it was me. I don't have enough experience with an airbrush yet, but thanks anyway, and thanks to all who commented. I appreciate it. What some of you managed to do in 1 day is awe-inspiring. Your experience really showed.

nice builds everyone. wish my turned out good but its just a pile of rubble.

Nice work John, it came out really nice. Pioneer tools look excellent.

I wanted to do whittmans Tiger but I dont think my airbrush would work for it.

nice work, Rebel.
my kit came w/ the 007 decals, but out of respect for Wittman, i did not but his last number on my quickie build. plus my camo was all wrong!
looks fine on yours, and i am glad someone picked that Tiger.

Here are the rest of My pics.

ABARNE, I couldnt get my road wheels on easily either. and the Idler wheel would line up correctly. other than those 2 things i enjoyed this kit.

Good job all, cant believe some of you finished in 1 day!!! and for all you that didn't, at least you tried, i usally cant get past step 1 in one day! i'm surprised no one built a 1/144 tiger, i built mine within an hour! 2 if you include paint. at first i thought everyone was building 1/35 kits, i guess 1/72 is more likely to be able to finish in one day. 1 have only build 1 1/72 tank, took me more than a month cause i gave up on the tracks halfway through.

Armourmaster: how did you do that mud on the tracks?

is there another mad armour day coming up? i might want to join, as long as it is during summer, i got nothing to do currently, out of models and money.

QUOTE: Originally posted by rebelreenactor WOW! there are really some great builds here. Good job guys! This kit was a great build, anyone else who built it think so? Also, Did anyone have troubles with the dragon tracks? I could get them to fit without a lot of trouble.

Nice build Rebel. Did you actually find those tracks easy? I had a dickens of a time trying to line up the guide teeth with the wheels. It wasn't real obvious to me where Dragon intended the out guide teeth to be placed. I think I ended up placing them just inside the 4 outermost road wheels but outside the 4 interleaved roadwheels. I don't think that is correct as far as real Tigers are concerned, but at 10:00PM with 2 hours to go and only about 3 hours of sleep in the past 24 hours, I really didn't care too much. The idler wheel compounded the mess. I actually pulled it off (along with a road wheel because of the German's godforsaken interleaved road wheels), sawed it half and shaved it down so that it could fit between the rows of guid teeth.

After getting the wheels in order, there was the task of trying to stretch the tracks in order to get some slack to aid in gluing them together. Strickly speaking I can't blame Dragon for my difficulties there. I simply needed three hands, and having only two, I guess I should blame my parents for the correct genetics they gave me! On the bright side, the tracks glued nicely with CA glue. If the tracks had been the "melt the pins with the hot screwdriver" variety, I think my Tiger would have ended up 1) smashed against the wall 2) battle damaged or 3) buried in a hull down emplacement.

I did find the decals went on beautifully. I fully expected to go through a pointless exercise of trying to apply decals over zimmerit, pulling them off after seeing how bad they looked, and the painting by hand. So I was really surprised to see nicely the conformed to the textured surface.

In spite of some difficulties with the wheels, I think it is a fairly decent kit.

Congratulations to all you "Tigers". You guys each did a heck of a job, and as an observer, I have to say it was very entertaining, and absolutely hilarious at moments there for some of you. The builds are all great, and the determination to do it in 24hrs. is something one would have to go a ways to top. Thanks for a great weekend, you're each a winner. semper fi,mike

QUOTE: Originally posted by woodbeck3 Impressive guys. Monrad... the major build of the year for fsm here??? Come over to mustang ranch .

You do know you are talking to treadheads here, don't you.

Impressive guys.
Monrad... the major build of the year for fsm here??? Come over to mustang ranch .

Ausf.. you did good bro... this really turned into something didnt it. Depending on what you may plan for it, I think I would like to have that little tiger you made there.