Dan:  nice PE work on the 232!!

Others:  building a Tiger I with all of that suspension work and those road wheels is like the Chinese water torture.  I'm just waiting to see who goes nuts first...   Geez, even the wheels of the PzIII each had 4 sprue attachment points to clean!... , and you have 16 more wheels to do!

Over the weekend, I put down some camo on the PzIII.  Not sure that I'm completely happy with it since I think I mixed the color a bit too brown.  But will soldier on and hope to tone it down a bit with a misting of Tamiya Buff and some pigments.  Also put the finishing touches on the tools and mounted them, as well as doing some detail painting.  Finally, sprayed a coat of Future, applied the decals, gave it a pin wash with burnt umber to highlight some detail, then a misting of Testors Dull Cote.  Here's what it looks like now...

Don

Those roadwheels sure are a royal pain to clean up, but the suspension looks really cool once all of them are in place

Hey Clemons, that barrel looks fantastic! Amazing what they can turn out these days, don't envy you on all those road wheels though.

Dan: PE looks good, love the weld seams!

Nice work everyone - more PE details on the 232. Armor86

FROM BISH Your not wrong there. If I had a £ for every warrior road wheel I had changed my stash would be twice as big

we had an alert rollout in germany in '77. routine stuff but i had been trying to get some road wheels for my gun tracks (M106A1 4.2" mortars). one was esc red (a readiness rating) because 2 road wheels had more than 50% rubber missing. as the mortar plt ldr AND co motor officer, i left it in the motor pool.

in the assy area when my co asked where it was i explained. he replied "can it move?" to which i replied "of course". he said "ok you made your point.. go back and get it ." got my road wheels rather quickly after that.

That suspension sure was a problem, but it still looks awesome

stikpusher

...But it's drawbacks include ... problems with heavy mud or ice conditions...

Yes, I've heard of that problem, especially between the drive sprocket and first outside road wheel.  Enough of a problem that the outer road wheel was sometimes removed.

Don

stikpusher

pyrman64

SchattenSpartan

There aint nothin damaging any inner roadwheels on that one! 

Except those pesky lil mines......at the most inopportune time!

Not to mention that Mother Nature tends to do a number on rubber rimmer roadwheels all on her own. Loose rocks tear them up- especially in a desert environment.

Your not wrong there. If I had a £ for every warrior road wheel I had changed my stash would be twice as big as it is.

Looking at the Tiger road wheels, in some cases you would need to remove 7 others just to get to the damage one.

pyrman64

SchattenSpartan

There aint nothin damaging any inner roadwheels on that one! 

Except those pesky lil mines......at the most inopportune time!

SchattenSpartan

There aint nothin damaging any inner roadwheels on that one! 

Except those pesky lil mines......at the most inopportune time!

I don't think the German engineers worried too much about replacing damaged components. The Tiger was the German "super tank" after all. There aint nothin damaging any inner roadwheels on that one! Just kidding LOL. They changed it a bit on the King Tiger though to make things easier me thinks...

The interleaved road wheels help distribute the weight more evenly on the torsion bars and reduce the likelihood of suspension damage immobilizing the tank- unlike the Porsche Tiger suspension system. But it's drawbacks include heavy maintenance for replacing damaged components and problems with heavy mud or ice conditions...

Mike/tb379:  Really nice 109.  Keep up the good work.

Dan, SS, and others:  Seems like we have a whole battalion of Tunisian Tigers being built.  Road wheel insanity!!  I really question German engineering with the overlapping wheel design, especially with the Tigers.  Think of the work involved to replace one of the inner road wheels, especially if it was on one of the middle suspension arms.  Doesn't seem to be a very repair-friendly design... 

Don

SchattenSpartan

 

yep i of the 3 is this one. not committing with it as yet.

You know you want it, Wayne! Join the fun and build a Tiger as well!

Photobucket messed up again!

So here's the rest of my post...

I glued the fenders and rear plate in place:

There's a small gap at both plates, but nothing a bit of putty or a piece of plastic sheet won't fix:

And another pic just for the lols:

I ordered a barrel for my Geschützwagen Tiger as well and here it is compared to the Tiger's 88 barrel:

How do ya like THAT gun?

Cheers, Clemens 

Ok here's what I managed to do so far:

Here's what I'll be using in this build:

A close-up of the RB barrel (got it for 6 bucks and it's worth every one of them):

The drive sprockets are assembled, but I still need to clean up some of the roadwheels (the smaller pile is still left):

i have 3 TIGERS in the garage stash and you guys make me want to grab one and build it. STOP IT/ i have enough wheels and trucks for a couple of years.

BEDFORD is base coated. will do some touch up and weather chassis and wheels this weekend and post pics.

Nice start Dan, got to love German armour and all those wheels.

Thanks Schatten Spartan,  assembly has been pretty easy. 

Have not been on here in awhile, forgot how to post pictures.

Looking good, Dan! I'm almost as far as you are and I'll post some pics shortly. I have a tiny gap around that towing shackle (or whatever it is) at the lower edge of the rear plate. I think I'll have to fill it with some thin plastic sheet. No biggie though

Dan, if you use the Use rich formatting link you will then find the link to post pics directly.

Here's a quick update on my Tiger 1,

It was fun cutting out those wheels.

Dragon's Late Production front armor.

Tamiya's Initial Production front armor.

I used testor's glue to on the bottom of the rear plate to hold it, then I came back with ProWeld and ran that around the edges.

Sorry for my lack of pictures yesterday. I had a pretty bad headache and went to bed early.

The RB Models barrel is great. I'll use it on my Tiger. There is actually a difference between barrels AFAIK: the late version has a smaller muzzle brake.

I looking at the Voyager Models, WWII German Tiger I Barrel (Early Version) # VBS0105.

And RB Model 1/35 8.8cm KwK 36L/56 Tiger I Early #35B01.

Mike: Lookin' good! Funny, think I sanded the seam off the cowling on the last Bf-109 I built...

Yes, an early barrel is the same. What brands are you looking at.

In fact, I am not sure if there is any difference in the 88's fitted to Tiger's throughout the production run.

Been trying to find a metal gun barrel for my Tiger 1, but can only find barrels are Early, Mid, and Late production version's.  Would a Early version work with my Initial production Tiger?

Thanks, Jack, I've got some .005 that might do the trick, I'll have a go tomorrow and see what I can come up with. Here's today's progress:

That's the canopy masks done and the stiffeners inside the lower portion of the split flaps attended to. There's not a lot left to do -- antenna mast, pitot, split flaps and landing gear go on after painting, so some masking of locator holes and adding the aileron mass balances is about it for kit parts!

M/TB379