1/35 Tamiya King Tiger ( Ardennes Front )

[dasboote34]

I like it!

 

[longlance67]

real nice build so far mate

 

[andrei383]

great work so far! i really love the look of the King Tiger!

 

[hummingbird]

Put on the base coat ( dark yellow ) and the first run of camo









All that's left is to use a huge amount of Blu-tack to mask the out line for each colour and put on hard edge camo

 

[TRM]

Nice looking camo Job HB!!!

 

[wyoroy]

Very nice. I love your AB work.

 

[geegad]

nice camo colour bud

 

[hummingbird]

Thanks guys ... it was touch and go for me to put down this layer of camo ... currently putting Blu-Tac around the Red-brown patches .... will keep you guys updated

 

[hummingbird]

Alright, Managed to do some work on this cat ..

After the initial run of the camo airbrush, I got a better canvas to lay down a hard edge so on to the masking .. I started with masking the dark yellow and the olive green





That WAS NOT EASY.. WHEW ...next time, I think I should just skip first run and go straight into masking .. anyway -

After the red brown was painted, I went for the olive green, This time, I skipped masking the entire thing and carefully mask and paint on the go with blu-tac ..

This is what I got .... and I have to say, I am starting to love hard edge





I purposely painted the hard-edge layer a bit messy and not entirely uniform as King Tiger 008 was historically Hard-edge, which implies that it was painted by the crew on the field and with the lack of petrol, crew use what ever they can to thin the paint so messy out come ( please correct me IF my assumption was wrong )

Now that Im happy with the results, I sprayed two coats of Vallejo Gloss Varnish and Revell Flat to protect the layers of paint...

After the follows the First step on the '' Ambush Scheme ''






The first step, which consist of dotting dark yellow over the red brown and olive yellow is done ... All I need to do is follow up with the other colours

Well, that's it for today folks, after the 2nd and third step of ambush scheme, comes details painting of the onborad tools and then the crews and I will be done...

 

[wyoroy]

I like the way your camo turned out.

One question, do you reuse the blu-tac?

 

[chriss67]

Camo well executed! keep at it this is a very nice KT!

 

[hummingbird]

I like the way your camo turned out.

One question, do you reuse the blu-tac?

Yep .. I reused it until I was satisfied with the camo

Camo well executed! keep at it this is a very nice KT!

Thank you so much .. I will

 

[andrei383]

the camo looks great on the big cat!

 

[Subhuman1]

That camo does indeed look good, nice job! looking forward to seeing your progress and finishing of this kit.

 

[Wouter]

great re-do of the paintwork mate, it's a jawdropping scheme , well done

the 'Ambush' camo wasn't field applied btw: KT's with the 'Licht und Schatten' camo came like that from the factory. At the factory some masks were used to get the hard edge camouflage.

Looking forward to next update!

Cheers

 

[MrT]

Very nice!!!

Terry ;D

 

[FAUST]

That repaint definately was a good choice.

Nice built. Was fun to read through it. Very nice to see some scratchbuilding too.

It also reminds me that I really need to do a camo paintjob soon. A lot of my stuff lately is either sand or grey.

 

[hummingbird]

the camo looks great on the big cat!

Thank you andrei

That camo does indeed look good, nice job! looking forward to seeing your progress and finishing of this kit.

Thank you sir.. I won't disappoint you guys

great re-do of the paintwork mate, it's a jawdropping scheme , well done

the 'Ambush' camo wasn't field applied btw: KT's with the 'Licht und Schatten' camo came like that from the factory. At the factory some masks were used to get the hard edge camouflage.

Looking forward to next update!

Cheers

Thanks for the feedback Wouter .. So these hard-edges were factory applied? dang it .. If i knew that, I would have painted them LESS messy ... oh well, the damage is done and I learned a valuable lesson for more future TIGERS .. Thanks Wouter

Very nice!!!

Terry ;D

Thank you sooo much Terry

That repaint definately was a good choice.

Nice built. Was fun to read through it. Very nice to see some scratchbuilding too.

It also reminds me that I really need to do a camo paintjob soon. A lot of my stuff lately is either sand or grey.

Thanks Faust .. You have to do Camo.. Camo are very much fun to do so

 

[hummingbird]

Alright... Time for an update ...

I mentioned in the earlier update that I only finish the first part of the camo scheme... so I followed through with it ..

After the dark yello dots, I applied the red-brown dots followed by the olive green








My mix of olive green is a little bit too dark and don't show too much on the Red-brown camo patches .. Im thinking I should put on a lighter tone,... MAYBE.. I don't know

I wanted to have this display with the hatches open and did a little research for it and found out some are with the red-oxide paint layer on the interior of the tank and since I didn't know how exactly is the red-oxide is mixed, I just used the closet colour to it, which is Tamiya Hull Red -



I might need to do a bit of re-touch around the hinges..... AND i just see the little boo-boo around the edge of the commander hatch ... oh well, i will just chip it on the weathering stage.. LOL

And I painted the two crew members that I want to show ...


This is my 2nd time painting crew figures and my 1st time painting it with full attention to details including hairs and eyes ... and I suck at it ..

Anyway, Following is the all around of the loader -







There may be a small amount of in-accuracy in the exact colours or placement of the colours. I had to work with what ever I had in my paint box and didn't want to waste more money on exact paint.. TBH, Im not exactly a rivet counter and as long my work come out nice and clean, I am happy.. I don't want to kill myself with 100% accuracy ..

anyway - followed up the commander figure










And some shot of the might cat being manned




A Number of option for turret number was avaiable so I choose for '' 008 '' as I had a tiger I ''007'' in the making and my friend suggest a 007 and 008, tiger 1 and 2 respectively ....



Because i choose 008, I have to Scratch built a '' Sternantennae'' and it is in the making right now and will be shown on the next update ...

Well, that's it for now folks... I will keep you updated

 

[geegad]

love the camo work and the figures look real nice