Martin's King Tiger

[Martin Hofmann]

Here comes the next photos of the turret with priming and the first layers of painting.

[Marco Peter]

Looks really well!

[Martin Hofmann]

Hi Marco,
thank you for the nice words, but this is only the begin of a long way of painting and weathering and so on....
Here are the next photos of the turret with numbers.

[Vince Cutajar]

Very nice work Martin. I don't think I have the patience that you have. Keep it up.

Vince

[Martin Hofmann]

Hi Vince,
thank you for your compliments. Here comes the next photos of the hull with some weathering and rust at the exhaust pipes.

[Marco Peter]

Love those exhausts! Care to share how you did it?

[Martin Hofmann]

Hi Marco,
here are some photos of the tracks and the exhaust and the procedure of making the rust for my Tiger 1.
After using the different types of pigments you have to fix it with a so called "fixer". You have to do this with several layers.
Start with the dark pigments and after this take the brighter ones.
Afterwards the end of the exhausts are painted in flat black with air brush.

[Marco Peter]

Excellent, I'm pretty oke creating rust myself, actually it even is loads of fun! But the fixer is most likely what created that GREAT texture, thanks!

[Martin Hofmann]

But coming back to the king tiger.
Here you can see the inner room of the turret full of grenades and the first photos of the new barrel adjustment.

[Christoffer Ahlfors]

The design looks familiar...

[Rolf Mönke]

haben wir das Lager für das Kugellager doch zu flach ausgedreht?

[Martin Hofmann]

Hi Chris,
you are absolut right. That's the same construction like in the Tiger1.

Hallo Rolf,
die Lagertiefe ist genau richtig, weil die Schrauben mit den Scheiben das Lager festhalten müssen - obwohl es eingeklebt ist. Hier ist die ganze axiale Kraft die das Rohr ausübt aufzunehmen.

Here are some more photos of the new design.

[Martin Hofmann]

Long time ago, since the last update, but i had some problems with the final drive.
But here are the next photos of the barrel adjustment with paint and motor.
Also new is the turret with some weathering for the first time - more to come.....

[Christoffer Ahlfors]

I wish I had your skills...

[Martin Hofmann]

Hi Chris,
thank you for the nice comment.
Here are the next photos of the turret with the track links on it and some light for the ammunition.
Also the turret MG is mounted on the movable part of the cannon.