All Metal Tiger 1 and Tiger 2 Cupola

Mike Stannard (toyrific) · Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:42 pm

Hi Guys

I have been working on the possibility of casting the resin parts of my Tiger cupolas in metal. I hope to have a test casting done over the next few weeks. The detail will be the same as the resin cast ones and all parts already produced for it will fit the metal casting. At this time I have no cost estimates. If this works I may also try to do the Panther cupola and Tiger 1 early drum cupola in metal. Problem with these two is the mass of metal required to cast them.

I would like to ask you all to give me some feed back on this so I can estimate if it is worthwhile proceeding.

Regards
Mike

Joe Calandro · Post by **Joe Calandro** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:22 am

Hi Mike,

I would like the cast metal cupola over the resin one.

Joe

Martin Cohen · Post by **Martin Cohen** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:16 am

I'd go for it preferably cast in steel; anything that adds more weight to my Tiger makes me feel better especially when running over my neighbor's plastic models and cats

Mike Cooper · Post by **Mike Cooper** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:59 am

Hi Mike,

I would also prefere metal to resin, it all adds to the authenticity !

Regards,
Mike

Tim Bowman · Post by **Tim Bowman** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:54 pm

Hi Mike

For me, it would come down to how much more the metal one would cost over the resin one. I'm not a "it has to be all metal" kind of guy but it would be nice to have a metal cupola.

Kind regards
Tim