I think the camo is so sharp…love how geometrical/tight it appears….then with the chipping and blending, it appears so realistic. Great addition with the barbed wire, too. Would love to see a real Tiger in person (well, maybe not facing one in battle :))
Nice work, looks great. I really like that you didn’t over do it with rust and weathering . Other guys over do it, their models look great. Don’t get me wrong , but the war was 1939-1945 . The war was over in six years . Some models look like they’ve been lost in the woods for thirty. My Grandfather was a tank driver in the Canadian Army, he lost five tanks from 43-45 . Most of those vehicles never lasted long enough to look that old
User this "Dazzle" camouflage on a Toyota Corolla years ago. Got so many compliments and was incredibly easy to find in a packed parking lot. Forgot all about it until I saw your video. Used this same technique to camouflage my Heng Long Tiger 1. Now it looks totally badass and lethal. Much more so than the straight grey. Thanks for the video!!
The fraying of the tubing can be easily corrected by moving a flame across it quickly. If you look at the ends as it comes from Tamiya it is exactly what they did. Instructions also point out to paint before cutting. Flame worked great for me as it shrunk it a bit to fit tighter onto the plastic "piping" from the air boxes.
*WONDERFUL OOB vintage kit, only missing is the smoke at the bottom of the exhaust pipes. I've the same kit in stock with tons of add on, your built is fantastic, only made with the plastic parts! Thousand of congrats'! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏*
Excellent job on this one....great camo scheme and a nice touch with the barbed wire. This one has been in my stash for quite some time so you've inspired me to crack it open and give it a go. Really enjoyed the windy ending! Will be looking out for the next notification.
The Tamiya 1/35 kit , Tiger I tank is fantastic . The work at the assembling parts is great and the painting is amazing . The details are superb ! 🏆🥇👏👏👏
managed to get this kit for 20 quid...winter camos look good...think might do it this one....but like the grey too...so might do one inbetween....suprising how many camos crews painted...it was a matter of taste,and what the crews thought was best....top vid m8
Thanks Russell. Yeah, it's a great little kit. I know that feeling when you get a kit, there are 2 or 3 different schemes, and you want to use them all!
I use boiling water on sections only that need to sag.....drop the area in cup then pour still boiling water over...take out soon as steam goes and drape over tracks with some weight on,leave to cool and hey presto did it on my last tamiya panther...worked a treat and they still sag...or if you have access someone who has 3d printer and scanner,scan the links supplied in styrene then print them out and make plastic tracks. Im currently making\made 3d scale model of Jagdpanther...nearly done breaking to parts to 3d print...to make my own scale kit...good thing is you can make any scale you want...depending on how much material for printing you can afford...scale of panther will be hopefully 1 /12th
@@russouk I use a small candle to create dents and soften parts. I hold the piece close to the flame and when softened I push and manipulate the plastic. This has produced some realistic dents and bends in tanks and vehicles; especially on fenders and sponsons. I urge you to try this. I really like the effects. Thanks for sharing guys.
Great work love camouflage scem, and as goes removing outer road wheels this was done on all tiger's early and light models and thay put on transport tracks which weren't as wide so they could fit on flatbed railway Cars without hitting tunnels and anything else on the Lines and the same goes for King tigers as well.👍👍👍
Thanks Neville. I knew about the thinner transport tracks. I feel like later Tigers and variants had generally fewer wheels too though - I seem to remember it being something to do with steel rimmed wheels which could support more weight than the rubber rimmed wheels.
@@ModelNerd Hi yes later tiger's had Steel rimmed road wheels and still had the same amount of road wheels as the early tigers, and because later in the war rubber was becoming rather scarce, also it's quicker and easier to build tanks with steel road wheels take a look at other tanks later in the war as thay started having steel wheels fitted.👍
I'm Building my first Tiger aswell just now built everything else but no Tiger just because of all the reserch needed for Tiger 100 but im there now with many 3D printed corrections I've been printing i will be doing same paint scheme grey with white wash it's just an amazing looking cano
@@ModelNerd Thanks you do the same, I subscribed you too. Also just FYI there is a Jagdpanzer group build going on hosted by Jorama Modellbau and Scale Bench
this is a great kit, i was going to do similar scheme but saw they had the markings for Wittmann's Tiger in kit and did it as that, overall white with some of the German yellow showing through. one of my fav kits.
Sounds good! Yeah, it was a really nice kit. One of the first ever kits I built was a Tiger from Dragon, and that was....different! Also fun, but definitely quite complex.
@@ModelNerd going back from while i had the old Tamiya Tiger.. which was supposed to be an early version i think but was a mish mash.. i used to love the Dragon kits. they brought an awful lot of interesting kits, like Soviet ww2 heavies and the "what if" likes of E100 etc.. i recently made the Africa version Tamiya Tiger.. another early version. usual Tamiya high standard.
The minute I saw your build I knew this was the paint job for my West Germany M-109 Self Propelled Howitzer. I only hope it comes out half as good as yours, and I've been building kits for 47years. I'm probably going to go with the torn masking tape method. It's my way of cheating 😂
@@ModelNerd I started doing auto body when I was in my teens. Like models I was 50% self taught and also had great teachers . If your interested in some meet techniques I've got a few tricks I can share. eotis40@gmail.com I started using standard heating and air conditioning duct tape when I was in highschool. Same stuff at your local hardware store.
Hi just watched the video on snow camo tiger 1, great modelling, this is the first one I have seen so have subs, will watch others with interest,, have taken up again after retiring great enjoyment.
It should be an ivory or off-white colour. You can get dedicated paints for that colour but I use Tamiya XF-2 white with a tiny amount of XF-57 buff mixed in.
This ins one kit I haven't built in any scale- horror of horrors.... Toyed with the idea of this particular kit on a number of occasions but also shyed away. I think as its got 131in there I think that s going to be my next purchase. Discovering your channel is going to start costing me...
Haha, sorry about that Paul! I do that all the time too - watch a video and think "Yeah, why haven't I built a Me262/Stuka/Stug/Panther/etc yet? I need to buy one now" :)
Great camo pattern. Nice end result 👌. I have a Tiger 1 in the stash pile, this might be the look I'll go for when I get to build it. I have yet to start the Elefant but will keep this in mind. 👍🏻
Awesome video!!! Have this very same kit as well and have been building it for roughly 2 years now. Well, mostly finished - just could not make up my mind about the camo/decal scheme I wanted to use. Watching this video, think you finally helped make up my mind. That is a very awesome looking camo scheme. Also, NEVER thought about putting barb wire around the vehicle - just may have to try that myself!!!
The barb was never on the front on any reference pics the crew had to have one way on and off too! I'm yet to find this hard edge camo in my old books but still searching as interesting to see a navel scheme allpied
Excellent results with the painting and weathering! 👏 FWIW, I like the look of the black & white splinter camo. It reinforces the idea of the Tiger I being a 'battleship on land'. 😎👍👍 FYI, I recall seeing a photo of a Panther with the 9th SS Panzer Division ("Hohenstaufen") that had a black & white winter camo that consisted of zig-zagging hard-edged lines, so the camo you chose for the Tiger I is completely out of the realm of possibility. ☺
@@ModelNerd honestly the detail you manage to get is brilliant. I love making models of the old British ww2 and cold War stuff but always come up short watching this show the level of skill and dedication that goes into making them completely lifelike its an amazing skill👍
I have a fantastic colourized photo ot 332 the famous picture of it stuck in the mud the photo from the front shows a damaged S mine launcher on the right front its like it's had some heavy whack from the top it's buggered anyways haha also the front lights are the plugged mount type they were never worn on these early Tiger's really but nice build overall even though 332 never looked like this and had front wheels removed for mud clogging
Yep, you're right. I'm guessing one of two things: firstly, maybe the Tamiya instructions are just wrong (they are quite old). Secondly, it occurs to me that I may have read the table in reverse: I assumed a 'X' meant 'no' and a 'O' meant yes. But perhaps it could be the opposite?
Suspect the Tamiya instructions are misleading, they would have been better with ticks and crosses. The tank museum replaced the original spare tracks with fibreglass copies some years ago, I'm not sure if this is still the case but if there are any spares they probably want them to keep the vehicle running. I believe one possible unique feature of Tiger 131 is the step iron beneath the spare track retainer - apparently, it was a crew modification. Great model by the way, I remember building the original Tamiya version many years ago which at the time seemed fantastic compared to anything else available.
I'm currently building the LE version of this kit with the ABER PE and metal barrel. I'm going with a winter Eastern front look. The escape hatch on the loader side makes this kit anything but early and the feifel air cleaner system also doesn't belong on any Eastern front Tiger 1.
You ended up with a really fine looking Tiger, although I would like to pick a few nits. AFAIK, only one unit, S. Pz. Abt. 505 added barbed wire to their (early) Tigers during operation citadel. Also the colour scheme of Tiger 332 was never gray, according to most Tiger experts I've heard. I still enjoyed the video though.
Thanks Nordus. Fair points. It's interesting how the Tamiya instructions mention the grey but were written a long time ago (90s) and as you say, have subsequently turned out to be wrong. Incredible that we're still learning new things about these events and vehicles even today.
Thought about picking this up yesterday or the day before can't remember, or was it this past weekend? but I think I'm just going to get a ryefield interior kit cuz if I'm going to build a tiger and or Panther I'm going to build one with an interior
I have the Academy Tiger with interior, which doesn't have great reviews but which I'm going to build in a damaged / destroyed state. I have the RFM Panther which looks very nice too. Although their Sturmtiger (video coming soon) fought me a bit.
Which manufacturer's ivory paint did you use for tyher interior color? It's perfect. Nice touch with the barbed wire and your splatter on the lower hull is outstanding. This is one of your finest efforts.
What a useful video! I have in my collection full interior Tiger I with winter camo as well. Definetaly gonna go for similar effect when i deal with interior... i used AK paint and it cracked all the way inside the hull walls. Btw can ya tell me what could be the source of that problem?
@@ModelNerd well i painted the base coat 6 month earlier, so missed point. Anyway, i am not gonna give up and use my trusty beloved Model Air color. Stay healthy!
Forgot to ask u,if i would do same style camouflage but before spraying white colour i apply hairspray for chipping that white(will it effect colour under layer of hairspray? ) many thanks 🙏🏻
@@ModelNerd thank u for that mate!many people on fb groups were making pigment mix some sort of scientific level thing and finally I found out how easy is that🙏🏻this is very helpful and once again thank u for that!By the way I have to admit that your channel and panzermeister36 are personally the best channels on here 🙌🏻
Awesome work mate! Also hey I wanted to know what type of airbrush you use, or could recommend to me? If you could it'd be a massive help haha. Anyways keep making awesome videos
@@ModelNerd Thanks mate, I'll look into trying to get one. The cheap one I have now isn't working and doesn't seem to want to spray the paint no matter how much I attempt to thin it.
Just out of interest, do you put a gloss coat over the paint scheme before adding the washes? Otherwise what do you use to remove it without removing the paint as I usually use lacquer thinner :D
Yes - either a gloss or semi gloss coat to protect the underlying paint. Then enamel thinner to remove any excess wash. Recently I've started using semi-gloss more - gloss is a bit too smooth, and makes it harder to get back to a matt state at the end.
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I think the camo is so sharp…love how geometrical/tight it appears….then with the chipping and blending, it appears so realistic. Great addition with the barbed wire, too. Would love to see a real Tiger in person (well, maybe not facing one in battle :))
Thanks T.J. Yes, I'm definitely hoping to head to the Bovington Tank Museum sometime soon, now I'm a lot closer to it.
Nice work, looks great. I really like that you didn’t over do it with rust and weathering . Other guys over do it, their models look great. Don’t get me wrong , but the war was 1939-1945 . The war was over in six years . Some models look like they’ve been lost in the woods for thirty. My Grandfather was a tank driver in the Canadian Army, he lost five tanks from 43-45 . Most of those vehicles never lasted long enough to look that old
Thanks, I completely agree. The lifespan on many of these vehicles was very short.
Lovely build, the barbed wire is a great addition.
Thanks Travis
User this "Dazzle" camouflage on a Toyota Corolla years ago. Got so many compliments and was incredibly easy to find in a packed parking lot. Forgot all about it until I saw your video. Used this same technique to camouflage my Heng Long Tiger 1. Now it looks totally badass and lethal. Much more so than the straight grey. Thanks for the video!!
Cheers mate - thanks for watching!
The fraying of the tubing can be easily corrected by moving a flame across it quickly. If you look at the ends as it comes from Tamiya it is exactly what they did. Instructions also point out to paint before cutting.
Flame worked great for me as it shrunk it a bit to fit tighter onto the plastic "piping" from the air boxes.
Thanks for the tip - I'll try that next time
That splinter camo with the weathering looks incredible.
Thank you Nigel
*WONDERFUL OOB vintage kit, only missing is the smoke at the bottom of the exhaust pipes. I've the same kit in stock with tons of add on, your built is fantastic, only made with the plastic parts! Thousand of congrats'! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏*
Thanks mate
Hi the barbed wire looks great and the white splinter camo sets the Tiger up for a great winter scheme. Great job. Steve U.K.
Thank you Steve.
Excellent job on this one....great camo scheme and a nice touch with the barbed wire. This one has been in my stash for quite some time so you've inspired me to crack it open and give it a go. Really enjoyed the windy ending! Will be looking out for the next notification.
Thanks Robbo!
The Tamiya 1/35 kit , Tiger I tank is fantastic .
The work at the assembling parts is great and the painting is amazing .
The details are superb !
🏆🥇👏👏👏
Thanks 👍
Wow! What are the odds? I was just searching for this type of camo! I am thinking of this camo scheme for a pz3 in Stalingrad. Looks great
Thanks. Good luck with your Tiger!
Excellent build. I was looking at buying one of these kits today. After watching your video I am going straight back to buy it tomorrow.
Enjoy! It's a great kit
managed to get this kit for 20 quid...winter camos look good...think might do it this one....but like the grey too...so might do one inbetween....suprising how many camos crews painted...it was a matter of taste,and what the crews thought was best....top vid m8
Thanks Russell. Yeah, it's a great little kit. I know that feeling when you get a kit, there are 2 or 3 different schemes, and you want to use them all!
EXCELLENT weathering video on your Tiger.
Love your soothing patience on this video....it pays off with the finished product.
Thank you for posting.
Thank you very much!
try using a hairdryer to get the sag in the tracks, it softens and stretches the tracks out
Thanks, that's a good idea.
Be careful doing this! Very low heat far away! It will melt links to close! I done it first time I tried it lol
I use boiling water on sections only that need to sag.....drop the area in cup then pour still boiling water over...take out soon as steam goes and drape over tracks with some weight on,leave to cool and hey presto did it on my last tamiya panther...worked a treat and they still sag...or if you have access someone who has 3d printer and scanner,scan the links supplied in styrene then print them out and make plastic tracks.
Im currently making\made 3d scale model of Jagdpanther...nearly done breaking to parts to 3d print...to make my own scale kit...good thing is you can make any scale you want...depending on how much material for printing you can afford...scale of panther will be hopefully 1 /12th
@@russouk I use a small candle to create dents and soften parts. I hold the piece close to the flame and when softened I push and manipulate the plastic. This has produced some realistic dents and bends in tanks and vehicles; especially on fenders and sponsons. I urge you to try this. I really like the effects. Thanks for sharing guys.
Superb, first time I’ve seen the barbed wire on a scale model tank. Looks good.
Thank you!
AWESOME job man it looks GREAT. I really like the camo.
Thanks Joshua. I wasn't sure about the camo at first so it's great to know it has been well received. Thanks.
@@ModelNerd I have a dragon kit and it's soo bad compared to tamiya there are so many tiny frustrating pieces
Outstanding piece of modelling, enjoyed this immensely.
Many thanks!
Beautiful build, the weathering really does make it 'Pop' 👍 barbed wire looks stunning!
Thank you mate - yeah, this remains one of my faves too.
Great video and excellent background music…Gustav Holst!
Thanks
Looks great,loving the barbed wire,nice video
Thanks 👍
Great winter sound effects. Went and put my sweater on.
Haha, thanks!
Great work love camouflage scem, and as goes removing outer road wheels this was done on all tiger's early and light models and thay put on transport tracks which weren't as wide so they could fit on flatbed railway Cars without hitting tunnels and anything else on the Lines and the same goes for King tigers as well.👍👍👍
Thanks Neville. I knew about the thinner transport tracks. I feel like later Tigers and variants had generally fewer wheels too though - I seem to remember it being something to do with steel rimmed wheels which could support more weight than the rubber rimmed wheels.
@@ModelNerd Hi yes later tiger's had Steel rimmed road wheels and still had the same amount of road wheels as the early tigers, and because later in the war rubber was becoming rather scarce, also it's quicker and easier to build tanks with steel road wheels take a look at other tanks later in the war as thay started having steel wheels fitted.👍
Really like this OOTB build. Just goes to show you can make a fantastic model with skill and patience without aftermarket parts ! Well done !
Thank you John, much appreciated!
I'm Building my first Tiger aswell just now built everything else but no Tiger just because of all the reserch needed for Tiger 100 but im there now with many 3D printed corrections I've been printing i will be doing same paint scheme grey with white wash it's just an amazing looking cano
It's a great scheme, isn't it? There's just something so imposing about it.
Thats the type of paint scheme i am going for on my Hetzer 38(t) build splinter style winter camo
I love the Hetzer. Need to build one soon. Have fun!
@@ModelNerd Thanks you do the same, I subscribed you too. Also just FYI there is a Jagdpanzer group build going on hosted by Jorama Modellbau and Scale Bench
Really impressed with your style, it helped me with my Tamiya Panther!
Thanks mate - I'm glad you found it useful
It's nice work and good looking too. When I was a boy, I was dipped belt tracl into hot water to soften.
Good tip, thanks.
Love the snow camo on this one!
Thanks mate!
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Thank you Andrei!
Great work on this old classic. Big fan of this camo scheme. Came out really well
Thank you mate, I'm glad you like it
this is a great kit, i was going to do similar scheme but saw they had the markings for Wittmann's Tiger in kit and did it as that, overall white with some of the German yellow showing through. one of my fav kits.
Sounds good! Yeah, it was a really nice kit. One of the first ever kits I built was a Tiger from Dragon, and that was....different! Also fun, but definitely quite complex.
@@ModelNerd going back from while i had the old Tamiya Tiger.. which was supposed to be an early version i think but was a mish mash.. i used to love the Dragon kits. they brought an awful lot of interesting kits, like Soviet ww2 heavies and the "what if" likes of E100 etc.. i recently made the Africa version Tamiya Tiger.. another early version. usual Tamiya high standard.
Great video, as a modeller new to armour models got some really good tips, looking forward to the next one
Awesome, thank you!
Great job, love the weathering and the barbed wires...
Thank you very much!
Looks amazing Looks cold
Thanks Chris
Seems like a quite effective camouflage pattern. It breaks the contours nicely.
Thanks mate
Fantastic job
Thank you so much 😀
Fantastic detailed paint job 👍👍
Thanks 👍
like allways good work, nice project.
Tamyia is allways was my favorite !
Thanks mate. Yep, you can't go far wrong with a Tamiya kit - even the older ones
Very realistic model
Thanks David
brilliant work
Thanks!
The minute I saw your build I knew this was the paint job for my West Germany M-109 Self Propelled Howitzer. I only hope it comes out half as good as yours, and I've been building kits for 47years. I'm probably going to go with the torn masking tape method. It's my way of cheating 😂
Thanks Ed. I like that torn masking tape idea - never thought of that before. I reckon that could produce some great results. Good luck!
@@ModelNerd I started doing auto body when I was in my teens. Like models I was 50% self taught and also had great teachers . If your interested in some meet techniques I've got a few tricks I can share. eotis40@gmail.com
I started using standard heating and air conditioning duct tape when I was in highschool. Same stuff at your local hardware store.
Beautiful job!!
Thank you! 😊
Outstanding work!!!
Thank you kindly!
Nice work.. I am going to have a go with the splinter Camo thanks to your video.. Nice one.;)
Haha, thanks. Have fun!
Nice work.
Thank you Bill!
Very nice.👍 It is so authentic that I get chills as I look at it.😉
Thank you very much!
Never seen this before! might try it out myself
Thanks for watching. Have fun!
your accent and voice is amazing
Thanks Jacek
Beautiful work. Well done
Thank you! Cheers!
Looks Amazing! Thank you!
Thank you!
Hi just watched the video on snow camo tiger 1, great modelling, this is the first one I have seen so have subs, will watch others with interest,, have taken up again after retiring great enjoyment.
Thank you - I'm glad you liked it. I try to release new videos at least once a week so thank you for subscribing and welcome back to the hobby.
hi on your painting just starting airfix tiger 1 what colour do you paint inside of hatches and interior of tank
It should be an ivory or off-white colour. You can get dedicated paints for that colour but I use Tamiya XF-2 white with a tiny amount of XF-57 buff mixed in.
hi,couldnt get ivory but bought tamiya wooden deck tan XF-78 which looks very similar.
That will definitely work too
Looks great!!! good job!
Thanks, glad you like it!
great work, love the results
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing
Nice job mate!!!👌
Thank you! Cheers!
This ins one kit I haven't built in any scale- horror of horrors.... Toyed with the idea of this particular kit on a number of occasions but also shyed away. I think as its got 131in there I think that s going to be my next purchase. Discovering your channel is going to start costing me...
Haha, sorry about that Paul! I do that all the time too - watch a video and think "Yeah, why haven't I built a Me262/Stuka/Stug/Panther/etc yet? I need to buy one now" :)
Great camo pattern. Nice end result 👌. I have a Tiger 1 in the stash pile, this might be the look I'll go for when I get to build it. I have yet to start the Elefant but will keep this in mind. 👍🏻
Thanks Rob, I'm glad you found it useful
Nice work mate!
Thanks a lot!
Love it great job thanks for the upload
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it!
That came out Wonderful, great work...
Thank you
Awesome video!!! Have this very same kit as well and have been building it for roughly 2 years now. Well, mostly finished - just could not make up my mind about the camo/decal scheme I wanted to use. Watching this video, think you finally helped make up my mind. That is a very awesome looking camo scheme. Also, NEVER thought about putting barb wire around the vehicle - just may have to try that myself!!!
Thanks James - I'm glad you found the video helpful. Good luck finishing your Tiger!
The barb was never on the front on any reference pics the crew had to have one way on and off too! I'm yet to find this hard edge camo in my old books but still searching as interesting to see a navel scheme allpied
Very nice
Thanks
Excellent results with the painting and weathering! 👏 FWIW, I like the look of the black & white splinter camo. It reinforces the idea of the Tiger I being a 'battleship on land'. 😎👍👍 FYI, I recall seeing a photo of a Panther with the 9th SS Panzer Division ("Hohenstaufen") that had a black & white winter camo that consisted of zig-zagging hard-edged lines, so the camo you chose for the Tiger I is completely out of the realm of possibility. ☺
Thanks Derek. I never made the naval link until you and a few other people mentioned it. A happy coincidence!
Great work.....!
Thank you! Cheers!
Amazing!
Thanks!
Snow camo is the best camo.
:)
Nice work! Awesome camo, mate! :)
Thanks a lot!
outstanding
Thank you Calum
@@ModelNerd honestly the detail you manage to get is brilliant. I love making models of the old British ww2 and cold War stuff but always come up short watching this show the level of skill and dedication that goes into making them completely lifelike its an amazing skill👍
Excellent work! I added this on Armorama for you, but if you'd like to post your work there yourself in the future please do. Cheers!
Thanks!
So ein Panzer kann nur ein Deutscher bauen 💪🏻🇩🇪
Great job!!!!!
Thanks mate!
I have a fantastic colourized photo ot 332 the famous picture of it stuck in the mud the photo from the front shows a damaged S mine launcher on the right front its like it's had some heavy whack from the top it's buggered anyways haha also the front lights are the plugged mount type they were never worn on these early Tiger's really but nice build overall even though 332 never looked like this and had front wheels removed for mud clogging
Yes, I decided to go for my own, not necessarily historically accurate, scheme for this one.
before washes, it reminds me of the NATO block camo on the F-16
Haha, right. Love those schemes.
5:37 the cloth pipe thingy u can use a lighter and burn it slightly to prevent the threads going loose i think.
Good tip, thank you
Or a electric stove grill. The radiant heat is a little less sketchy than flame IMHO of course.
I watch these videos to avoid spending £50 or so on a Tiger tank model.
Thanks mate
Speaking of which; I've already seen that, Macy's is still going on strong.
Thanks
Thank you - greatly appreciated! I hope you enjoy my videos.
Tiger 131 had a full set of spare tracks mounted on the front hull, the immediate post-capture photos show them clearly.
Yep, you're right. I'm guessing one of two things: firstly, maybe the Tamiya instructions are just wrong (they are quite old). Secondly, it occurs to me that I may have read the table in reverse: I assumed a 'X' meant 'no' and a 'O' meant yes. But perhaps it could be the opposite?
Suspect the Tamiya instructions are misleading, they would have been better with ticks and crosses.
The tank museum replaced the original spare tracks with fibreglass copies some years ago, I'm not sure if this is still the case but if there are any spares they probably want them to keep the vehicle running. I believe one possible unique feature of Tiger 131 is the step iron beneath the spare track retainer - apparently, it was a crew modification.
Great model by the way, I remember building the original Tamiya version many years ago which at the time seemed fantastic compared to anything else available.
I'm currently building the LE version of this kit with the ABER PE and metal barrel. I'm going with a winter Eastern front look. The escape hatch on the loader side makes this kit anything but early and the feifel air cleaner system also doesn't belong on any Eastern front Tiger 1.
Hi Domenic. Thanks for watching. Check out images of Panzer Abteilung 502 in Russia.
Un espectáculo 🤟
Thanks!
when I read early snow camo I initially thought what late November early December as opposed to say mid January snow camo
Haha
Great job ,check your sprues I believe you forgot to add the cap on air exhaust cover between the driver and radio operator ..
Richard, I'm not quite sure which part you mean? I'm pretty sure I've covered everything in the instructions.
@@ModelNerd part A9 in step 7.
Ha, that's odd. I never noticed that was missing, perhaps because of the stub on the hull. Thanks, good spot.
You ended up with a really fine looking Tiger, although I would like to pick a few nits. AFAIK, only one unit, S. Pz. Abt. 505 added barbed wire to their (early) Tigers during operation citadel. Also the colour scheme of Tiger 332 was never gray, according to most Tiger experts I've heard. I still enjoyed the video though.
Thanks Nordus. Fair points. It's interesting how the Tamiya instructions mention the grey but were written a long time ago (90s) and as you say, have subsequently turned out to be wrong. Incredible that we're still learning new things about these events and vehicles even today.
I wonder if tamiya build new molds for these old kits. There plastic trees are always in top notch shape ?
I wonder that too. They sell new boxings of some very old 1970s kits but there is never any hint of damage, flash, etc.
Love this. Anyone know the number of the tamiya white used?
Thanks Steve. I would have preferred to use matt white (XF-2), but only had gloss white (X-2).
the camo tiger part of SS Heavy Tank battalion 101 wittman division 1st ss pz div
Thought about picking this up yesterday or the day before can't remember, or was it this past weekend? but I think I'm just going to get a ryefield interior kit cuz if I'm going to build a tiger and or Panther I'm going to build one with an interior
I have the Academy Tiger with interior, which doesn't have great reviews but which I'm going to build in a damaged / destroyed state. I have the RFM Panther which looks very nice too. Although their Sturmtiger (video coming soon) fought me a bit.
Which manufacturer's ivory paint did you use for tyher interior color? It's perfect. Nice touch with the barbed wire and your splatter on the lower hull is outstanding. This is one of your finest efforts.
Thank you Lawrence, I appreciate that. The interior is Cremeweiss from Mig.
The Germans did put barbed wire on their tanks.
Yes - a bit like the US in the Pacific - to stop infantry climbing aboard and attacking with grenades and satchel charges.
What a useful video! I have in my collection full interior Tiger I with winter camo as well. Definetaly gonna go for similar effect when i deal with interior... i used AK paint and it cracked all the way inside the hull walls. Btw can ya tell me what could be the source of that problem?
Thanks Michal. I'm not sure about the cracking paint. At a guess I'd say maybe the base coat or the primer wasn't fully cured?
@@ModelNerd well i painted the base coat 6 month earlier, so missed point. Anyway, i am not gonna give up and use my trusty beloved Model Air color. Stay healthy!
Forgot to ask u,if i would do same style camouflage but before spraying white colour i apply hairspray for chipping that white(will it effect colour under layer of hairspray? ) many thanks 🙏🏻
Yes, you'd apply the grey, then the hairspray, then the white - and only the white would be affected by the hairspray.
@@ModelNerd thank u mate 🙏🏻
U more than welcome 🙌🏻 by the way,how you mixed those 3 vallejo colours for exhaust pipes?
Just curious but does the hull machine gun move?
Hi, thanks for watching. Yes, it moves.
Amazing job done on tank! How u made that pigment paste?
Thanks. The paste was just pigments mixed with thinner (enamel thinner or white spirit).
@@ModelNerd thank u for that mate!many people on fb groups were making pigment mix some sort of scientific level thing and finally I found out how easy is that🙏🏻this is very helpful and once again thank u for that!By the way I have to admit that your channel and panzermeister36 are personally the best channels on here 🙌🏻
Thanks for the kind words mate. Yes, I love Panzermeister's channel - especially his weathering tutorials.
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Great job.Curios as to why what appears to be Japanese or some Asian language on decal sheet as a marking?
Thanks Mike. According to the instructions that is the unit marking for Tiger S33 of PzReg 2.
What color of wood are you using?
I don't remember to be honest. Just a light brown / beige colour.
Awesome work mate! Also hey I wanted to know what type of airbrush you use, or could recommend to me? If you could it'd be a massive help haha.
Anyways keep making awesome videos
Thanks mate. My airbrush is a Harder & Steenbeck Ultra with 0.2mm and 0.5mm (?) needles. It's my first airbrush and I've no complaints :)
@@ModelNerd Thanks mate, I'll look into trying to get one. The cheap one I have now isn't working and doesn't seem to want to spray the paint no matter how much I attempt to thin it.
Yeah - airbrushing is definitely a bit of a black art. Good luck!
Just out of interest, do you put a gloss coat over the paint scheme before adding the washes? Otherwise what do you use to remove it without removing the paint as I usually use lacquer thinner :D
Yes - either a gloss or semi gloss coat to protect the underlying paint. Then enamel thinner to remove any excess wash. Recently I've started using semi-gloss more - gloss is a bit too smooth, and makes it harder to get back to a matt state at the end.
@@ModelNerd thanks so much man, will be sure to give it a try
Yo we’re did u get the mini barbed wire
I can't remember to be honest - probably Hobby Link Japan, but a lot of model shops should stock it.
Oh thax I’m getting this model and want it to look beast lol