Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard

[Christoffer Ahlfors]

You designed the Armortek firing device? Awesome!

It is the only thing to date to provide the right barrel smoke in the right fashion!

[Phil Woollard]

A very quick video of my high pressure smoker doing it's stuff in the Tiger1 stacks, the sound of the fan is noisy right now but a rubber mount and the engine sounds will fix that.

[Phil Woollard]

I just had to manufacture the early track hanger that the 503 used, the only compromise is the way I have had to fix the hangers to the front plate.

[simon_manning]

superb smoker phil, Thats what the bovington Tiger look's like, plenty of thrust and power behind the smoke, regards simon.

[John Clarke]

Masterclass Phil, really enjoying this impressive build.

You designed the Armortek firing device? Awesome!

It is the only thing to date to provide the right barrel smoke in the right fashion!

The last line is not strictly true, there was one other firer built by Winson/Modelworks. It to my knowledge was rarely used due to being rather expensive to discharge.
Fully loaded it would have cost £40 or there about's, (12x electrically fired maroons). The literature failed to mention that.
Rattled the factory windows when it was demonstrated to me, when the smoke cleared I thought they'd deafened me.

That ugly chap in the advert picture was just pleased to have completed the model before the company started making clocks.

[Phil Woollard]

Hi John, electrically fired maroons have their place, I use them mainly for batsims but like you said are expensive and very sketchy to load into that carosel, most have long firing wires so you can be at least 500mm away from the thing when you connect up, that carousel fully loaded had a mass explosive hazard big enough to take your fingers off maybe even your hand.

A little advice for anyone still using the discontinued blank firer, just use the percussion cap without the black powder load, it's still very loud and a whole lot safer.When I post a video of my 331 firing the effect will be huge as this unit is my mk 4, very different from the standard mech.it should rock the whole tank!

Some more progress on 331.

[David Brady]

Looks good Phil

[Phil Woollard]

Lots done.

[Steen Vøler]

Just love the rain mufflers.
Are they 3d printed

[Phil Woollard]

Hi Steen, no they are hand crafted from steel. They do look good with the smoke lifting them open and then gently closing as the engine stops, you do need a high pressure smoker for that to happen though.

[Kevin Hunter]

I keep giving all these little secrets away

You know you want to

[Phil Woollard]

Adding the front deck details, I'm enjoying this build very much it's a good time of the year to be in a cosy workshop.

[Steen Vøler]

Thanks Phil, wondering about a radial fan insteaf of the classic fans used on smokers

Could have 2 of them installed, 1 in each side of the smoker box

[Phil Woollard]

Sounds feasible, give it a go Steen! Generally the worst that can happen is all the smoke oil gets blown out the exhausts.

[Phil Woollard]

More done to the deck fittings.