King Tiger rebuild

[Per Sonnervik]

Hi Steve,

Nice to seeing someone doing the bottom plate details - great work. Looking to forward to seeing what you can do with the rest.

Regarding your question how to paint the bottom plate, well, the three vehicles I had the pleasure to crawl under - the two at Bovington and the one at Full (Switzerland) - the first two showed remains of dark yellow (TII H finished in July) over anti-rust red and the Full (finished in September) had only anti-rust red.

So I would say it depends on if your depicting an early or mid 1944 vehicle or a later version - have you made a choice yet?

Hoped it helped.

Cheers, Per

[Steve Norris]

Hi Per
My plan is to build a September production Tiger 2, without zim and with a ambush paint scheme.
From what you have said it would make sense to leave the lower hull in red primer as camouflage on this area is a waste of time and probably more importantly resources.
Thanks for your input.
Regards
Steve

[Steve Norris]

I have built a engine bay ready for the installation of a Maybach, Only the basic shape has been done at the moment as time is pressing and I need to get the tank mobile for the October show.
Either side of the engine bay I have added mounts for the smoke system, the smoke units can easily be installed and removed as can the engine bay.

Another shot of the engine bay, this will be detailed at a later date.

Regards
Steve

[Steve Norris]

on to the more interesting things now.

Hull side details added

Paint added to insides

Kugelblend textured and painted

Regards
Steve

[Steve Norris]

I've not posted much recently so I think it's about time for a update.

Back end now complete, I have deleted the jack from below the exhaust as it was not fitted on late vehicles although strangely the jack block was.

Rear view showing added details

Again rear deck detail

The front end

The turret now needs to be started so I will post more when that is underway.
Regards
Steve

[Iacopo Di Giampietro]

Hello Steve.
I really like the work you're doing: the added details are very well done!
Keep going!
Ciao.
Iacopo

[Per Sonnervik]

Hello Steve,

Good to see you get going again. This will turn out to be a very nice model.

Some small comments; four vent tubes from the petrol tanks was a bit later if this is meant to be a September vehicle. Also you added "anti step-on" bars at the back tubes - this was a very late feature, probably in Mars/April 1945.

Regards, Per

[Steve Norris]

Hi Per
Great to see you and your wife again at the open day.
Thanks for the info. I am going to finish this KT in a hard edge camofauge scheme as seen on some that took part in the battle of the bulge, so the build date for the tank has been moved a bit to the right and could now be October or November 1944. I didn't,t know that the gaurds were very late war additions so thanks for that info and I will remove them.
Regards
Steve

[Steve Norris]

Ok, step guards removed from around rear vent tubes on pers advice.

Regards
Steve

[Paul Wills]

Looking good Steve. I just need to get this slipped disc sorted and I might start on mine this year.

Paul.

[Steve Norris]

If anything is going to give you a slipped disc it's the Kingtiger, hope you recover soon and get yours underway.
P.s. I will get those parts sorted for you.
Regards
Steve

[Steve Norris]

A bit more work carried out on the turret parts prior to assembly

I have a rear turret hatch with Steve Winstons upgrade locking mechanism and have decided to modify the surround to accept the lock pins. This photo shows the rough cut outs that I did using my Dremmel and many cutting discs.

Two cut out liners have been made to neaten things up a bit

The liners Araldited in position, when dry filler will be added and the area cleaned up

More to follow
Regards
Steve

[Paul Wills]

Hi Steve,

My back is on the mend, give it a couple more weeks and I will be raring to go Your new mods look good mate I need to rework the turret hatch on mine, it doesn't sit flush. Thanks for sorting the other things.

Paul.

[Steve Norris]

Job done, hatch added to check fit.

Regards
Steve

[Steve Norris]

Basic turret awaiting detailing

Turret overhang,the track hangers have all been repositioned and the grenade guard added bellow the overhang

Basic turret now reassembled

Regards
Steve