Late Tiger 1 commission build by Phil Woollard

[Phil Woollard]

John you post anything you want on this thread regarding the late Tiger 1 as it's all relevant and extremey interesting, thanks for the up date on the fuel tanks.

[John Grima]

Thanks Phil, While on the bandwaggon for the fuel tanks I also developed the main fuel cells to round off the set.

[Phil Woollard]

They are very nice John.

[Phil Woollard]

Although not posting much I have been making good progress. I now need to turn the 4 hull plugs as they are no longer included in the kit.
The m6 caps that hold one end of the torsion bar will stay as they are, these are to important to cover up.

[John Heath]

Coming along nicely.

Here’s a photo of how the protection plates were bolted on that you might find interesting.

[Phil Woollard]

I have a plan John, that photo shows rather nicely the angle cut in the inner edge to clear the hull weld fillet protrusions

[John Heath]

When you think about that they would have to provide clearance for the welds but a detail that’s easy to miss.

i’ve tried to make the plates look a bit like they are supposed to.

[Phil Woollard]

That's pretty darn close John, they have also squeezed some lock tabs in there to! We plan to hang the spare track across the front plate to.

[John Heath]

Got to sort out the track hangers for the front plate myself. Got the hangers for the spare track on the turret to do but that’s going to be a little while until I get round to that.

[Christoffer Ahlfors]

It's very difficult to keep it a bit human, a bit random, not to uniform. Obviously use the same tool or a few very similar just as the guys applying it would have. I'm using a wooden spatula, a single piece tool which is taking forever but doesn't give that "lines on the black board look."

I agree wholeheartedly! And the result is absolutely stunning. I have never seen any better looking Zimmerit coating on a model.

[Phil Woollard]

Cheers Christoffer, I'm never happy with the zim as it's an organic material applied to a square geometric plate, I've just finished the rear plate ( photos tomorrow ) and that's been a bugger with all those fittings and fixings to work around!

[Vince Cutajar]

I now need to turn the 4 hull plugs as they are no longer included in the kit.

What are these plugs Phil?

Vince

[Phil Woollard]

Hi Vince , the hull plugs, just under the scallop fillet. Photos tomorrow!

[Vince Cutajar]

I guess then that they are the shock absorber attachment points.

Vince

[Phil Woollard]

I believe so as they are handed and so correspond to the swing arm positions which are different left and right. I'm pretty sure you have done yours already?