My name is Søren , 54 year, married with 3 kids (now 3 young men
.After a few years in the Army, Norwegian coastal artillery, i have spent half my professional career in electronics (audio/video related) and then made a complete career move over to service on large industrial doors( hangar, shipyards, offshore)
I have had numerous hobbies and interests, but allways fall back to model building and pyrotech/guns/reloading. I usually pick models from WWII or 17th - 18th century artillery (miniature salute guns:) I try to pick models that have a interesting historical significance in its time, and this opens a door into researching historical events and people that operated the subject I'm working on. For me, this adds a lot to the project. Am I a little bit of a nerd? Well, yes
Have been building RC Warbirds, Helicopters, Submarine and boats
My way to Armortek was a little by coincidence, I was looking for a breech loading model cannon and was fortunate enough to get my hands on the last PAK 40 they had for sale. I enjoyed the build so much, that i started to look at their Tank line of products. Way out of my financial range at first glance. But then i started to look around in my house, garage, celler and attic for items cumulated (and now collecting dust) over the years that might have some value to others. And with the flexible payment offered by Monique, the Tiger 1 was payed off, AND money left to rebuild my garage to a very nice hobby room.
Now , the Tiger has arrived. I'm blown away by quality of the kit. And size and weight
We all seams to start in different ways on these kits. My take us to first "dry" assembly the larger modules to see what fits and what can be modified/enhanced. I have read most of the building blogs on this forum, and seen through most of John/ECA/Oddballs videos on YouTube, so i have taken notes on what to alter/modify. We are now 2 Norwegian builders of the 2021 Tiger kit, and Tor and I have established contact so we can help each other out as the build progress
My build will be to my best abilities, but i realise that my skills are far from the level I see amongst some of the masters on this board. I only hope that I not totally FUBAR this project
My Tiger build number is 07, so it could be tempting to do M. Wittman 007. But I feel this model has been done to death, so I looking more and more into doing Tiger 312 from 505. It has a interesting paint scheme, and I dont think (I may be wrong) it has been done in 1:6 before.
Anyway, sorry for the long intro. Lets keep on building
