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Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 1:47 pm
by Vince Cutajar
Hope the hole is in the correct position. Sending you the file.
Vince
Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 4:36 pm
by 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.

Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:00 pm
by Christoffer Ahlfors
That is a very nice paint job on the bin! There is no way telling that it is not sheet metal.

Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 11:53 am
by 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.

Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 12:09 pm
by Vince Cutajar
The cover was a perfect fit Vince!
Was really worried about that hole.
Vince
Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 2:36 pm
by 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!
Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:26 pm
by Christoffer Ahlfors
Interesting spare link arrangement on the side of the turret!
Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 8:59 am
by Phil Woollard
You are quite right Christoffer, I've never seen the spare track links stowed in that fashion before.

Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 6:12 pm
by Phil Woollard
Getting on with it.

Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:16 pm
by Phil Woollard
Been working on the fenders.

Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:29 pm
by Phil Woollard
Lots more done.

Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:36 pm
by 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.

Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:44 pm
by 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.
Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:11 pm
by 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!

Re: Early or mid ? Tiger 1 build by Phil Woollard
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 2:06 pm
by 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.