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Here are some new photos of part two of about a five part weathering paint scene . Noel my modeling friend has started by lightly air brushing humbrol 94 lighten with some white onto the upper hull . Because the primer grey was thinner based paint . This aloud Noel to be able to remove some of the Dark yellow with turps on a peace of paper towel to give the worn paint look in the correct places.




In this photo I like the look of the web like olive colour ! You can see why they painted it like this !! Just imagine my tiger parked up under a shady tree. Dale

The olive colour camo will act as a pre shade as the model will receive a second light coat of dark yellow to tone done the olive colour this will blend them together . In the mean time , Noel will be hard at work on the running gear .

Part 4 will be the battle damage painting plus paint chipping rust and mud also rain stains etc . I will post some more photo next week . Dale

Hi Dale,

Great work on your Tiger! Thanks for taking the trouble to keep posting these step by step tutorials its great for those of us that are lacking skills in some areas.

Cheers
Phil

Dale

That looks really, really good. Just awesome.

Thanks for posting the pictures and techniques used. the result is just too cool. can't wait to see it after the next steps.


Tim

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT SET OF PHOTOS,THIS CAMO SCHEME LOOKS VERY INTERESTING.COULD BE SUPERB, A ONE OFF, KEEP POSTING SIMON MANNING

Here is a photo of Mike stannards smoke discharger bracket which I have just added to my tiger . This turned up after Noel started stage two of the paint work so I rush up to his place to bring back my turret to install them before he does the next coat of dark yellow .

Dale, those hangers seem to extend over the turret roof - is the roof still removable with them installed ?

Adrian.

Hello Adrian . I had the choice of fixing them to the roof and just letting the bottom part hang down the side loose . I did not like the idea of them not sitting in hard aganist the turret sides plus they would be prone to braking off when the turret roof was removed . So I cut them on the join so I can remove the top and added the fake welds top and bottom . Dale

Dale,
Great paint work. I love the camo scheme. Despite the popularity of grey Tigers, in reality a grey tank on the open expanse of Russia would be a sitting duck and visible for miles from the air. I would bet they camo'd them pretty quick as a matter of survival. I like the execution of this one showing grey base coat underneith. Well done.
Bob

Thanks for the explanation Dale - I can see that having such a small area of contact if attached at only one end would make them quite vunerable.

Adrian.

Here are some photos of the running gear being weathered with dark earth and Dark yellow . Also the second coat of humbrol 94 has be sprayed on the upper hull next will be rain stains and chipping then mud...

You will notice in this photo how the oliver colour bands are toned down . Also you can just see the old numbers under the second coat of Dark yellow this is how the real machine was !! Next Friday we will respray the new number 113 in white over the bottom corner of the number 14 .

Dale,

That is SO cool looking! I always kinda liked the look of "old numbers" painted over with new ones in war time photos. Neat to see it done so skillfully on your Tiger.

really nice work.

kind regards

Tim

Dale
Looks great.
Rememeber the dreaded bucket must go!
Regards
Tim