I don't really even like Tigers of any description, really, so maybe someone can explain why I just
had to have this kit?
So anyway, it shows up at a local hoby shop last week and I'd already decided I was going to buy it... in fact, Magic Box Hobbies was the second shop I'd been to that day hoping to find it. My whims are fickle, what can I say?
As I was saying I found it, I bought it, and I brought it home forthwith.
I've decided I'm not going to buy any more PE sets for this kit - lately I've been starting to avoid PE sets altogether because of the amount of items I feel I don't really need, although there are stock sets I will use - Aber's German clasps and clamps set (the later one, I can't remember the stock number) being one of them. Luckily, this kit does come with PE of its own (most usefully for the grillework). I also find that a lot of PE items are still of the worng scale thickness (usually too thin). At any rate, I'm going to cheat and steal selected items off the Aber PE fret for the DML Jagtiger which I'm working on as well and after four years I might as well admit that I'm never going to finish it.
After putting the turret together, carving away the weld seams with a mind to re-do these in putty, and texturing the armour plate (more about this later) I discovered you need to move the pilzen sockets around, as pictured. The kit provides the earlier layout, as evident on the Tiger II at RMCS Shrivenham. I used online reference shots of the Tiger II at La Gleize to get the positioning of the later arrangement. Not perfect, but hopefully no pedantic ass with a set of callipers is going to start measuring it (which means I can't enter it into any IPMS shows, I guess
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I made the new pilzen sockets out of On The Mark stainless steel tubing.
That's it for this installment...
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