Dragon King Tiger

[Iron Mike]

Way cool scheme but get those tail pipes drilled out!

You do realize there is a splitter in the pipe? :coolio The pipe is hollowed out around the splitter, I just haven't painted down in there yet.

 

[moon puppy]

Way cool scheme but get those tail pipes drilled out!

You do realize there is a splitter in the pipe?

Er...no.

 

[Iron Mike]

Fantastic looking Tiger, Mike. I like it very much :dude
But one more thing except drilling out exhaust pipes is damaged zimmerit. I would paint places with damaged zimmerit in color of primer or metal.

Thanks, Roman! I have the damaged zimm areas painted with the same chipping color, I plan to add a bit of primer and also pencil graphite to the areas after I get the decals and such on. I have found the additional weathering layers tone the graphite down, so I wait until the last to add it.

Thanks, Chuck, Mats and Chris! I appreciate your kind words very much!!

 

[Iron Mike]

:laugh:

 

[jknaus]

Looks awesome Mike. Love it
James

 

[Iron Mike]

Thank you, James! I was paging through my Tiger books, ran across a photo of the 324 that I was depicting.

FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY of course.

Here a closer look at the exhausts too.

The MMIR publication The Modeler's Guide To The Tiger Tank is a great reference if you plan to build a Tiger, don't leave home without it. :laugh:

There's Future in my future this morning, update later.

:drinks

 

[moon puppy]

Is that a big gun or are you just enjoying the show cowboy?

OK OK!!! I was wrong.

 

[Iron Mike]

This out of the box stuff is hard to do! I realized I don't have the decals I wanted with the kit, so I'm going with 300. Please forgive me if the colors don't match the number, this is a fictional vehicle anyway. Here's yesterday's update.

I painted tools and worked on the base for my Jagdpanzer, just not enough exciting stuff to take pix of. The answer to the age old question is YES, there is a shelf life on Solvaset. :laugh:

:drinks

 

[Sherman 18]

Looking great!

 

[reconron]

&

Greetings,Ron.

 

[Roman]

Nice Tiger, Mike!

 

[moon puppy]

Well they laid down nicely if the solvaset is dated out. Nice work Mike.

 

[dukwhunter]

 

[AndyFettes]

Mike this is simply outstanding stuff mate !!

 

[Iron Mike]

Thank you, friends!! Just a little update for today, I needed to make a base for the KT. I've had the J's Work molds for several months, but haven't put them to use, so now's the time. I mixed up some Lightweight Hydrocal per the instructions and poured it into my molds, it took an educated (lucky) guess to calculate the amount of product.

To pour two J's Work pavement molds, mix 1/2 cup Hydrocal with 1/4 cup water.

I screeded the excess off to make the bottom level, I used a butter knife (while my wife wasn't looking!!) hmy:

I let the whole thing sit about an hour, then removed the piece from the mold by carefully bending the silicone mold. Here's the result.

I bought three different molds, brick wall, pavers and cobbles.

I'm waiting on my next batch to harden so I can pour another. I would say these are a worthy investment, the cost of the Hydrocal is around $10 for a half gallon and the molds were about $6US. I have used about a quarter of the Hydrocal, so my base will cost me roughly 3.00 compared to ready made stuff. More to come...

:drinks

 

[MrT]

Looks good! Now you get to paint all those cobble stones.

B)

 

[jknaus]

Neat
James

 

[moon puppy]

Too cool! Do they interlock to make a road bed or wall?

 

[Iron Mike]

It's going to take some work to make them fit like they should, but the hydrocal is soft enough to file and shape. It looks like they should fit together, but the seam is bigger than the rest of the pattern without any work.

 

[AndyFettes]

Nice job Mike

where did you get this stuff from ?