Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard

[Vince Cutajar]

Hope the hole is in the correct position. Sending you the file.

Vince

[Phil Woollard]

Cor its been a busy day in the workshop Vince the feifel covers are printing away nicely and will take 12hrs to cook.

[Christoffer Ahlfors]

That is a very nice paint job on the bin! There is no way telling that it is not sheet metal.

[Phil Woollard]

I'm having the afternoon off but have got a fair bit done this morning, as for the rear end of the tiger, well that's just about finished. I still have weathering like scratches, dents, small arms damage, soot, oil, rust, mud and dust to add but that will evolve as I go.

[Vince Cutajar]

The cover was a perfect fit Vince!

Was really worried about that hole.

Vince

[Phil Woollard]

Vince your an engineer for sure and your understanding of my strange methods and descriptions is getting better lol we make a good and entertaining team!

[Christoffer Ahlfors]

Interesting spare link arrangement on the side of the turret!

[Phil Woollard]

You are quite right Christoffer, I've never seen the spare track links stowed in that fashion before.

[Phil Woollard]

Getting on with it.

[Phil Woollard]

Been working on the fenders.

[Phil Woollard]

Lots more done.

[Phil Woollard]

Whilst I'm waiting for parts from Armortek ( they are super busy with the stug and I keep adding more parts to my final parts list, sorry Monique), I've decided to get some of the motion installed and the high pressure smoker ready for its first outing with a Tiger1.

[Phil Young]

Hi Phil,
I’m following your smoker unit “mods” with interest. I did a lot of work on mine.... opening the bore of the outlet adaptors, aligning the ports and “gas flowing” them, if you know what I mean?
The results are quite impressive, the increase in flow resulting in a “proper job” smoke screen! In fact I think just one smoke unit in my KT would now suffice!
Phil.

[Phil Woollard]

Hi Phil, you keep going as there's so much to it. More smoke is not the object, two smokers are not the solution as you have found out!

[Phil Woollard]

Would any of you lovely people out there have the double threaded pipe fitting that goes between the firing device and connects to the barrel they could sell me? it's just basically a piece of pipe. I could turn one up but would rather have the original for safety reasons.

Now I have a good reason to use the firing device, number one I have a licence for this kind of thing, and number two I have been asked by a certain book author to provide photos of a early Tiger1 firing, so as I designed the thing I felt I should use it! I don't recommend you guys using it as it has had issues in the past, this due to incorrect maintenance and possibly incorrect blanks being used.