King Tiger, Dragon 1/72 - COMPLETED

[tonylee-Rest In Peace]

I ain't believing this

Tony

[Deleted]

A giant penny and a 1/16 KT turret that's what you've got! ;D

Seriously though, more great work buddy

[wing_nut]

Thanks guys. I figure I should do this now while I can before all I can see is a 1/16 KT or the Opti-Visor lenses get so thick it's too heavy to lift.

I finished the cleaning rods for the little kitty. The rods are 0.5 mm brass tube with the “threaded” ends 0.3 brass tube that fits inside the large one.

I made the rack part by taking a bunch of hat pins, since they are relatively hard, and held then over a piece of 0.5 mm tube and tapped it with a hammer, each pin making a nice depression in the tube.




These were glue to the hull and the cleaning rods to that.

[eastrock]

Coolness!!!

[reserve]

Pretty small there, Wingy, and very nice as well. Impressive detailing for this scale.

Regards,
Mark

[wouter]

some crazy 1:72 extra detailing mate...love it ^^

Cheers

[Deleted]

super work and great attention to detail

[wbill76]

Love what you're doing in the detail department here Marc! The trick with the pins worked out perfectly IMHO, very neat.

[wing_nut]

Thanks so much guys. really appreciate the comments.

Dicky, That's just too damn funny.


So close to paint I can almost smell the fumes.

All the fiddly bits are done. Tow cable is made from lead thread and brass tubes. Only thing missing is the metal liner that inside the loop but I am hoping that at this wee scale it will go unnoticed. A few more grab handles added. Vision ports on the commander's cupola are now separate with a new gun ring. And while not pictured, tiny little lifting lugs where added to the exhaust housings.

Last thing before getting some color down is to add some resin hex bolts to the fenders.

[eastrock]

Cool Scratch-building works, as Nemo said Braille-ant!!!

[johnt]

Very nice detail work on this braille scale! You have to be happy with this, well done mate!

Cheers
JT

[wbill76]

I don't think you have to worry too much about that little detail going unnoticed Marc, everything else you've done in this scale is on the 'amazing' end of the spectrum! Very sharp work all around...the added bolt detail will just be icing on the cake.

[wing_nut]

Thanks guys. Bill... considered that cake iced. The plan is to get the base coat on tonight. I was correct in your T-34 thread...I DO smell paint ;D

I knew that I was going to feel that I was lazy about leaving the 2 molded on tools on the front deck. Made a new axe and sledge hammer. And i added the little resin bolts to the fenders.


Gotta go down and mix my dark yellow. Hmmm? Not what was that recipe...? 1 part dark yellow, 1 part buff, eye of newt and a purple flirp? I'll start there.

[406 Silverado]

Awesome details Marc. Hard to believe this is 1/72

[modelfreak72]

Wow!! This guy is serious! Great detail work wing-nut! Are you sure that's 1/72?

[Thom]

Marc great looking build love all the extras.

Cheers,
Thom

[wbill76]

Now that's what I call some awesome icing! Just don't overdo the eye of newt...it can produce some disastrous results if not done in the correct ratio. ;D

[wing_nut]

Thnaks guys. Rest assured... my eye strain rememds me daily that this is 1/72

Bill, I was out of eye of newt and had to make do without

We got PAINT! Base coat has been applied and since I don't see anything that needs to be fixed... but shout out f you do... I cam move onto the camo.

[eastrock]

Yes the smell of paint in the morning

[dupes]

Man, Wingy...that little trick for making the cleaning rod brackets was pretty freakin' sweet. Nice!

[wing_nut]

Thanks lads.

Yes ER... I love the smell of VOC's in the morning



Dupes if you use this the only thing I would do different is to add a little spacer between the pins to spread the depressions out a wee bit.

[wbill76]

Yahoo! Paint's flying! Looking good so far Marc, look forward to the camo.

[wouter]

I agree, glad to see some paint on the beauty. Nice basecoat

Cheers

[Deleted]

Onto paint.. Great stuff... what camo are you going to apply?

[modelfreak72]

Oh Boy!! We got paint!! ;D

[wing_nut]

WOW... I guess I am not the only one to be excited about getting to the paint ;D

Steve, Gonna be an ambush scheme. The interesting part of that is mote the method than the scheme itself. The pics I've seen of the tanks in Pz Abt 501 have a hard edge camo. I was trying to use some Blu Tack and having a hard go of it. I read once about using tooth paste. I will certainly post pics if that's the way I go.

[deafpanzer]

It got paint on!!! Can't wait to see camo next... looking at pics again made me realize its turret is way too big for its hull.

[bbd468]

Thats just a great lookin' build and a kit i may have to add to the wish list. Bring on tha CAMO!!!

Gary

[wing_nut]

Andy, do mean on this version kit or the real deal? When I look at my 1/35 KT the proportions looks about the same. But it is a damn big turret no doubt.

Camo? You want camo?

OK. Here is the progression with the tooth paste mask. Since the 1:1 progression is the green and red brown applied to the yellow, that had to be reversed. So that meant changing the base coat color. So does that make the yellow a primer coat ;D

The final yellow coat is drying as I type this. Once it's dry i will wash off the TP with water and a paint brush. I am already getting antsy to see how it all works.

[wing_nut]

TOTAL DISASTER

But it does smell nice

Washed of the paint and it was looking really great... until the paint started washing off too. 3 layers down to the plastic in spots. As I was moaning... "Why, why, why... Oh the humanity..." I was thinking the only thing it could be is there is some alcohol in the toothpaste. And then I remembered when the other guy talking about it he did say "kids" tooth paste. I am guessing no alcohol. Chatting about it with the owner of my LHS and he thought off ready made cake icing in the aerosol can. I checked... no alcohol. But there is oil hat may stain he paint. I got a tube and will test on ...."not the tank"