After-market detail parts - Are there any offering?

David Lee · Post by **David Lee** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:47 am

Hi,

I have an 88 and half track still unopening but plan on the build later this year or early next. Just wondering if there are any detail parts on offer by other talented builders, so that I can start collecting them before the build.

Thanks

Dale jordan · Post by **Dale jordan** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:31 am

Hello David . What else do you have under the bed . It sound like you have a good collection of Armortek kits. Well done !! ... I felt guilty having two ... Dale.

David Lee · Post by **David Lee** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:16 pm

Hi Dale,

I have been following your build thread and pictures over the past year and am very impressed with your tank from Land DownUnder.

Quality counts and the lastest pics of your early tiger in dark yellow is breathtaking. I have a couple of stuff under my bed literally

but not armortek stuff.

Well, I had to have the 88mm, halftrack, early tiger I and Panzer IV (but currently only Panzer III is in the armortek offering) influenced from the early Tamiya days.

I am a perfectionist

or so I wish to be, therefore I was very slow in building my tiger. Changed three steel floor boards because I was not satisfied with the countersunk angles

And I changed all aluminim to all brass suspension blocks. Coupled with certain limitations of skills, and availabiltiy of good machinist in China where I worked.

I am still trying to find a twenty over years old picture of a diorama depicting a German retreat in a Tamiya center foldover. It features a panzer IV, horse drawn field hospital, a krupp truck, BMW motorcycle crossing a long wooden bridge. And German pioneers were seen laying dinamite along the pillars of the bridge.

Paul Wills · Post by **Paul Wills** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:05 pm

Hi David,

You could try Tim Catton, he has made some one off parts for my halftrack.

Paul

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cedric meyer · Post by **cedric meyer** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:01 am

Do you have his email? Or an internet site? I'm also interested in some parts...

cedric.

David Lee · Post by **David Lee** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:37 am

cedric meyer wrote:Do you have his email? Or an internet site? I'm also interested in some parts...

cedric.

Here you go, I haven't contacted for quite some time since I bought some tools and fire extinguisher from him. Great work he does.

tim.catton@epr.co.uk

Paul Wills · Post by **Paul Wills** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:20 pm

David,

You beat me to it, well at least you both know now. Good luck and keep use informed.

Paul

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David Lee · Post by **David Lee** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:23 pm

Thanks Paul, I will check if he has any new parts catalogue.

Paul Wills · Post by **Paul Wills** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:25 pm

Hi David,

You are better off asking Tim for what you want, rather than if he is doing them. I asked if he could do the Krauss Maffei badge for the front of mine and he did, but it wasn't on his list! He is doing some other parts for my halftrack at the moment, I won't say what they are in case he doesnâ€™t want to do any more. you could also put a wants list on the craftsmanâ€™s market, that way you might get them cheaper if their are a few of you wanting the same thing.

Paul

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