Abdin's Build- Trumpeter's Geschutzwagen Tiger

[fledermaus]

Hi Friends!!

This is my entry for the group build, the trumpeter giant Geschutzwagen Tiger, with some extras. Aluminum barrel from RB, two sets of tracks from Hobby boss, ammo from trumpeter and the voyager grilles set.

The mandatory date photo

The trumpeter ammo set

The excellent RB barrel

The hobby boss tracks, two set are needed

The Voyager detail set

So this project is about to be started, so see you soon….

 

[moon puppy]

looks like an interesting build. 170mm! Was this one of the paper tigers I hear about or was it actually produced?

 

[fledermaus]

HI moon poppy!! :Hiay they only did one that never was finished, Im planning on doing it battle ready,thats why I got the ammo for it.

thanks!!
Abdin

 

[shawngehling]

Abdin or Fieldmouse
Looks like some heavy metal is going into this beast.
I think it will be great. Can't wait to see the build.
Shawn

 

[StuG]

It's huge....Good luck mate...

 

[Iron Mike]

Dive in, Abdin! Looks like you have some great details planned and loads of possibilities. Have fun!

Mike

 

[G Cooper]

Hi Abdin.

That is certainly going to qualify as Huge and Heavy. I can hardly wait to see you get started on this monster beast. It's kind of like one and a half tigers all in one .

I just put you on the list, and now we are all ready to see what you can do with all the goodies you got for it.

Gary B)

 

[fledermaus]

Shawn,Stug,Mike and Gary thanks a lot guys!! :Hiay

I will do my best with this beast or go loco(crazy) :woohoo: :side:

Abdin

 

[fledermaus]

Hi to all, first my apologies for starting so late as I have being doing other works model related for other people, so after 6 months I finally found the time to start this project and I better hurry if I want to finish it on time. So I started the build with the suspension parts..

Left and right sides done

Next I started working on the engine and the transmission and by the way trumpeter did a great job on this parts as both are very detailed and with a lot of parts each..

Here is the engine which is composed of a total of 81 parts!!!!Wow

The same goes for the transmission with a total of 42 parts, is a shame the covers hide a great part of the details of the transmission but you know its all there…

With the engine and transmission finished I started to assemble the gun cradle, nice rivet detail all around…

In order to install the aluminum barrel, you need to cut the original gun halves from the breech first so the ring can fit in the breech halves..

After a little sanding the ring is ready to be glued to the breech..

Here the barrel is fitted to the ring, it’s a loooong barrel!!!!

I’m working on finishing the barrel so I can start working on the interior of the tank
More soon…..

Abdin

 

[Jenny Croft]

Looking like a mighty build Abdin but you are doing great with it .

Jenny :kiss:

 

[Ruben Lopez]

Hey Din, glad to see you are plowing along with this. I was starting to think that you were going to miss this one. :laugh:

That engine is a beauty! Trumpeter should sell it as an upgrade for those other models that use the same engine.

Ruben

 

[Iron Mike]

I agree with Ruben! Fire her up, Abdin!!

 

[Tojo72]

That is really some great detail,this one will really be a great one.

 

[Model Maniac]

It looks so far so good, Abdin! But your build is very slow, six months and you haven't finished assembling it. This is what my modeler built last year, I believe it took him a day or two at most to build OOB:

Add figures for size comparison:

Keep working! I want to see yours finished...

 

[Ruben Lopez]

Model Maniac wrote:

This is what my modeler built last year, I believe it took him a day or two at most to build OOB:

A day or two at most? That's the beauty of not having anything else to do in your life!

Ruben

 

[moon puppy]

...And not being paid per kit.

It's a hobby not a race.

 

[fledermaus]

well I wish I have all that time, but like I said at the beginning of the post, I'm currently
making a master for a model company and at the same time was finishing another group build
so the geschutz tiger was on hold till now. I hope I can finish it on time, you should try
to do your models your self, thats the fun part of model kits, by the way the model looks
very nice.

Abdin

 

[fledermaus]

Hi to all, time for another update. The model is ready for painting, all the subassemblies are finished. The tracks are ready to be installed also, so here it is

The hull ready for paint, the engine and transmission are painted separately to make it easier…

This hull is huge…..

And the side walls, a lot of pin marks were removed from the inside

Next I finished the gun barrel, the muzzle brake is stunning and screws in like the original one

The completed barrel

The finished gun ready to paint

And a figure for size comparison, the gun itself is another giant

I replaced the guns front hydraulics balancer tubes with brass ones as this is easier to do than sanding the seams on the originals

The original tubes, I cut the base of each so this can be glued to the brass replacement ounce sanded smooth

Here are the bases glued to the brass replacements

A nice improvement over the originals, and it works..

Well that’s for now, next update will be painting of the beast, so till then stay tuned and thanks for watching….

 

[MrT]

Wow this is looking great Abdin!! I like the brass parts.

Terry B)

 

[Ruben Lopez]

Excellent! Those brass balancers are a much needed improvement.

Ruben