Martin's King Tiger

[Martin Hofmann]

Here i made kilometers of welds...........

[Rolf Mönke]

Fein, fein!!

[Gerhard Michel]

In Germany we say "that's a job for someone who has killed father and mother.......!"

[Martin Hofmann]

"And all the others of the family............."

Here comes some more details of the bottom plate with covers and plates.
Thank you Per Sonnervik for the beautiful photos you have made - so i could take the dimensions from.

[Martin Hofmann]

And here the covers and plates are mounted onto the bottom plate.
The bottom plate is also welded to the hull sheets.

[Martin Hofmann]

Here you can see the escape hatch and the first plate covered with zimmerit.

[Martin Hofmann]

In the meantime the road wheels are made ready on the inner side of the King Tiger.
It is a good training for the outside later.

[Mark Heaps]

Hi Martin,
Shouldn´t the lock tabs be on the outer wheels ?
Or did you have enough to put them on all wheels ?
Mark

[Martin Hofmann]

Hello Mark,
you are right, the lock tabs should be on the outer wheel. But i have so much tabs, that i can mount it on the inner and outer wheel, and also for one more King Tiger!!!!!

[Martin Hofmann]

here comes some more photos from the other wheels: idler and the sprockets.
please note that the most photos are made from the inside and the wheels are weathered there.
The outside isn't weathered - that will come later.

[Phil Woollard]

Nice weathering Martin as usual, you must have a sore index finger, im looking forward to your technique regarding the larger hull areas, shes going to look like she has done a few road march miles in the summer time ...Phil.

[Martin Hofmann]

Hello Phil,

thank you for the nice words. Yes she is running a long time in summer AND winter time..
Here are the first photos of the hull.

[Martin Hofmann]

And here are the next photos of the hull......

[Paul Wills]

I am watching with interest Martin, your weathering is fantastic. I have a Tiger II to do at some point and it looks like I will have some great reference material

Paul.

[Graham Hough]

Fantastic work, we have yet to paint our Tiger and you have set a standard for us to reach for but I am not sure we will do it. Excellent.