Tamiya Late Version Tiger 1 update 5

It has been some time but progress has slowly progressed.

Some paint on the figures

Some more paint and some tracks and weathering on the tank. also Some bridge of a diorama in the background

Oh shiny metal look. pencil rubbing and more grime

Some blocks on the back of the bridge. They are made from red das clay

The front of the bridge..no blocks yet. but the beginnings of a base

Cobblestone roadway from the white das clay.

Its all a bit of a mess still but I have some idea of where I`m going with it

The plan is to have some railway tracks running on top of the bridge, if I can successfully scratch build them

Tamiya Late Version Tiger 1 update 4

Sprayed on a bit of camouflage red brown

Then a gloss coat and decals, they have had 3 coats of micro sol so far to try to settle them down on to the contours. 

Tamiya Late Version Tiger 1 update 3

The continuing tale of a Tiger that has gone to the dogs

199 tracks glued up 99 on the right and 100 on the left

I decided that cleaning up the plastic tow cables was not worth it so I cut them out, drilled some holes and and replaced them with some wire

Primed with matt black And covered with Dunkelgelb/ Dark Yellow.

Added some browns to the tracks and a touch of steel they will need some more work once they are in place.

You can hardly see through the forest of wheels

I am debating whether I should add camo colors to the wheels. Probably not though.

Tamiya Late Version Tiger 1 update 2

Things are proceeding. nearly finished with the zim sculpting, drilling back out the covered holes and playing with the figures  :)

I even got back to sticking some plastic again.

Tamiya Late Version Tiger 1 update 1

As a little break from cleaning tracks and sculpting zimm I put the crew together. To me they looked like they were having a smoke break so I added a couple of wire cigs and a tobacco pouch for the guy with the pipe. The pouch is made from the metal off a tube of gel.
Still trying to figure out what to put in the hand of the guy on the right