Book Report: The Research Squad - Tiger A Modern Study of Fahrgestell 250031
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2016
- Here is my rather lengthy report on the Research Squad's book on Tiger 712. This book is a high quality pictorial survey of the state of that Tiger while she sat in England a few years ago. I highly recommend it.
Excellent book and a great review as usual Thank's Adam for sharing
Thanks John. Always glad to share a good book.
ad ive looked at this myself and because of YOU im going to have to buy it, typical mr mann review.... AWSOME !
I do what I can to cause financial problems for my friends.
+Adam Mann very true, most of your reviews ive gone and brought alot of the kits ! ha ha, it hoes to show you are very good at what you do !
My 503, 311 H1 had a front Notek lamp fitted so like your clamps it's one of a kind! I'm really enjoying my build and can't wait to show it off to see how many people comment, saying that's wrong, this is wrong, that shouldn't have that etc etc! I've got all my references printed and ready to go with the build for the next show, if and when they start again just for smart arsed modellers whi think they know it all lol! I'm building 2 of RFMs full interior kits well the 2 tigers just now and the sturmtigers next!
It had a notek fitted during the war? That's crazy.
@@AdamMann3D yeah the one that got ditched about a week in the eastern front haha I'm building it up to the same as the photos in my books it's going to be a very interesting build!
thanks for sharing all the info. held pick a book to read.
Very cool book! Thanks for the review, Adam :) That does look super helpful for doing like anything with a Tiger in this hobby. I need one for StuGs though heh
You know I don't know if such things exist on StuG III. They must somewhere.
I have that modellers guide too it's my go to for my models! Have you seen the price of it now on Ebay? 100 bucks lol cost me 12 bucks years ago lol definitely the best book to do the RFM 503 Eastern front kit as it is an accurate kit from Tiger 131 references being the same early but in grey as most think I'm doing abt 503 311 kit as the RFM kit builds up as perfectly out the box! What is interesting is the box says ausf E but it's really an H1 by all my references of 311 and all the kit parts hull etc with no s mine brackets alot claim RFM haven't put on but the 311 H1 503 never had them or the mounts it's been a great ride of knowledge this past month for me on Tigers I think I'm hooked now!
Whatever happened to the Tiger 1 I saw advertised a few years back - it was pulled from the Pripyat marshes and the advert said "complete with crew" (!) ....
Good stuff, Adam. Would love to get my hands on one of these sometime. Model on!
It's a solid Tiger reference for sure Russ.
Awesome review Adam! Looks like a great book, although....I don't feel like I MUST have it, as you do sometimes, much like I did with the Tigers in Combat Volume 1 & 2....
Talking about which....I bought the hardcover ones, when they first came out plus Tigers in the Mud, miss them terribly as they're in Sweden and I live in the UK, so I bought the paperbacks thinking they'd be the same quality....what a disappointment that was, regarding the pictures....
Might have to get the Modelers Guide plus the Jentz and Doyle book though!
Anyhoo, top review as always buddy!
All the best,
Jan
Consider me jealous. I can't afford the hard cover books so I've never even seen them. DW to Tiger I is amazing.
Saw that you said you didn't know how to do wood, I do it this way. Pint the wood area with XF-59 Desert yellow then stipple/drybrush with XF-64 Red Brown. Can also use buff if you want, then thin Clear Orange and apply overtop. After being matt coated it looks quite good.
thanks I'll try it when I can get some bench time.
I was hoping you could explain to me all of the different OVM tool clamp styles that the Germans used. Of course, there are the normal ones, that are normally represented by 3 PE piece - the ones that dragon do well in plastic. Apparently there are early and late substyles of this type.
But in Panzer 38t kits, dragon gives you a single strip of PE that you wrap around the tool. So maybe early war stuff based on Czech vehicles had czech-style clamps?
But what confuses me the most are the tools that come with dragon's armored cars. For example, their Sd.Kfz. 234 series all come with tools that dont have the hollow hinge part. Is this just laziness on their part, or did armored cars have different tool clamps?
I actually have a massive video in the works about this very thing. But just for now I can tell you I've been next to a Czech tank and they had standard German clamps of the early type. Yes that is just laziness.
Ok, thanks. I am looking forward to your video.
Adam, I really like the in-depth look you give us on reviews, thanks my friend, now yikes buddy!, who did the air ventilator, that guy had to be blind as a bat not to see what that really looks like. I've spent a lot of cash on reference material, and with this review looks like I'll spend some more lol. by the way I have the two tigers in combat I, & II, and the pictures are the worst I've ever seen. wish you'd do a review of those books, if just to save the next guy some money. you can get the same photos from several books in much better shape. sorry bla,bla, great review as always Adam.
Thanks Clayton. Maybe I will do a video on those Tiger in Combat books. I'd prefer to have good news, but you're right they're pretty unusable in regards to reference. Information is still great.
interesting book. for my taste a bit too much into the technical aspects, i am more interested into war time reference shots and tactics.
i ordered a book about german tracks recently, it is probably the book to end all questions about tracks ever. i might review it.
I wasn't aware there was a book about tracks. See if you can find something about my welded on cleats.
Adam Mann
i will certainly find that out for you. the google library shows you some exceprts, but only in german. the book costs 20€ only so from what i could tell from the excerpts i guess it is worth it.
Where did you get the actual clamp? Ebay?
Yes sir, they pop up from time to time on Russian relic sellers pages. They can be expensive, but there aren't many other pieces of tanks one can afford or have room to keep in their house.
These books are expensive and quite, can not buy. We have now made the interior with Tiger Ⅰ type of rye field model. Survive and look at this. Thank you very much. from Japan.
The ventilator vent on the top of the Turret I have seen 2 different versions that has been used in the German army as much as they updated tanks I don't think we could actually say that it didn't exist with the 8 bolt patterans.but my uncle works at Bovington tank museum as a tank Mechanic and he a Historian if you want I could find out more information about it .. I've wondered about that Drawing. I have a 4 Terabyte hard drive full of military books that I use for research from all over the world. But I have learned to never say never Specially talking about the German military in ww2 they have made many changes in their tanks and we are still learning everyday new stuff come up all the time.
I'm very sure that they never had an 8 bolt ventilator.
Why?
Because there's no reason to make that change.
The man who drew the diagrams for this book, was not as thorough as you might think. For example, he didn't see the turret floor of 712 so he drew the turret floor of 131 for the book. He didn't realise that the floors were slightly different.
4:19 German vehicles, planes, and tanks that were captured and shipped to the U.S. for traveling exhibitions were eventually scraped for the metal to further the war effort, never to be seen again.
Herzlichen gruse