Martin's Sturmtiger

[Martin Hofmann]

Now i am starting a new project: I think one of the last Sturmtiger out of the box.
The first photos are from the hub caps and the sprockets with the rings. The next are coming.

[Derek Attree]

Hi Martin
Years since there has been one of these on here.
Will be following the build with interest.

Regards Derek

[simon_manning]

Looking forward to this Martin, regards simon.

[Robert Tanzer]

Really looking forward to following this build.

Robert T

[David Brady]

Also looking forward to following

Prototype sturmtiger here

Cheers

[Martin Hofmann]

Thank you guys for the warm welcome,
here are the next photos of the road wheels. On the last photos you can see, that the screw 2 and 4 of every 5 screws are soldered to simulate a screw and not a nut.

[David Brady]

Nice work Martin I will do the same on my Late tiger and Sturm.

Cheers

[Robert Tanzer]

What fine details, Martin.
Wonderful to follow this build.

[Martin Hofmann]

Hi David,
hi Robert
thank you so much for your nice words. But i was to early with mounting the Aluminium sprocket rings from Armortek. In the meantime i ordered the beautiful tracks from Liam and his sprocket rings made of steel. The absolut best tracks for a Tiger 1 i ever saw!!!
So i had to dismount the alu rings and mounted again with the steel rings. Also the road wheels and the swing arms are ready and primed.

[Robert Tanzer]

Agree with you martin 110%
Liam's late Tiger links are absolutely beautiful.
I have them on my Late Tiger also.

[Mark Weiss]

Martin the detail work on the road wheels was superb. The smaller m2.5 nuts on the hub look fantastic and the faux bolt heads look perfect, especially with the larger m2.5 rim nuts. Did you use m2.5 nuts from MVD? That was where I was going to source mine for my KT wheels.

[Martin Hofmann]

Hi Robert, Hi Mark,
thanks for the very nice words.
Mark: i used nuts from company Knupfer here in germany they are called: Modellbaumutter. They have a smaller key width than the DIN nuts!
Here are some more progress on the parts of the chassis. The axles are glued into the arms with LOCTITE 2701 and after this the swing arms are drilled and pinned with spring dowel sleeves like all my tanks.

[Robert Tanzer]

As usual beautiful work Martin.
Robert T

[Martin Hofmann]

In the meantime i made some more progress with the hull and also with the final drive.

[Martin Hofmann]

Now there is a small update with the shortened axles of the swing arms.