FINAL TURRET WORK
Hello everyone and apologies for the slowness here - work (again) has been busy and we just found out that we have 2 years until they shut us down - then it's time to look for a new career.
Anyway Models are the topic for the day so I have some final turret work to show and then I will be onto the Chassis build[ which I already have many photo's of.
The turret roof and the Commanders Cupola are not fixed yet as I still need to paint inside the turret.
I studied the details as much as possible with the photo angles available and worked on the final external details.......a number of the turret side track hanger mounts are missing in the photo so I tried to match what I saw.
It's very strange that Dragon have created this great Tiger 1 model with detail down to the smallest part yet they provide no guide for the track hanger positioning. As you can see I marked up the turret with pencil using the 'Actung Panzer 1/35 scale dwgs as a ref.
go figure that!
- added
weld beads to broken / missing track hangers. I used some spare Modelkasten track hanger base parts as I have a number of these from all the tigers built over the years -they are a little finer than the Dragon ones and seem just a touch more accurate.
- added
left over base plate mounts for left side track hangers
- added some
shot hits where needed
- Nearly completed the
damaged stowage bin to try to match what is in the photo's.
With the stowage bin I could not clearly see all the damaged and I did want to leave some of the classic Tiger 1 shape to it, so it is kind of the same with shrapnel and bullet hits as well.Still needs a little more work on the foil to plastic transition areas but it's close.
See you again soon for the Chassis [and I mean it!]
Brokeneagle