As regular readers will be aware, I already have a number of (metal) Tiger 1s, so why on earth do I need more of them? Well, Tigers crop in all sorts of interesting places and I've frequently been vaguely unhappy with eg using a midwar Tiger as a stand-in for Panzer Company Hummel at Arnhem in late 1944 etc. Anyway, I thought it was time to bite the bullet and scratch this particular obsessive itch. My metal Tiger 1s are all fairly standard mid production models.
And here we are, three Battlefield 3D resin Tiger 1s undercoated and ready to be painted. They all look so similar and yet....
Being quite large vehicles, these are all four part models. Hull, turret and a pair of tracks. The master STLs are by Night Sky Miniatures who also did some of the excellent US vehicles I recently got. These are proper scale models, so some of the detail is quite fine.
This is an early production hull and turret. You can see the primitive commanders cupola.
And obviously the engine deck is festooned with all the gubbins which makes up the Fiefel air filters. This one has the smaller straight sided turret bin.
The second Tiger is also an early production model, identical to the first except it has a mid production angled turret bin on the early model turret. This was a custom print very kindly made up by Phil at Battlefield 3D.
And finally we have a vehicle I've never owned before (unless you count the very bodged Airfix kit and a few 6mm ones), a late production Tiger with the Tiger II style steel rimmed wheels. These were far and away the most common types in Northwest Europe in 1944.
Along with the turret being festooned with track links, it also has the later cupola and AAMG mount.
The engine deck is also free of Feifel gubbins. If you look very, very carefully, the hull and turret sides are also covered in Zimmeritt, although in this scale the corrugations very fine.
I don't usually put up pictures of vehicles in undercoat, but it illustrates how they end up when I've prepped them. I usually do them in matt black, then mist them with white spray from about 2' away. It gives an excellent 'tooth' for the top coat and also provides some instant highlights and shading, if you put the paint on thin. The contrast is more marked than the photos show. Many thanks to Dr Faustus Painting Clinic for that method.
I've got specific plans for each one of these, and I'll post up each model as they are done. That will be bring me up to six Tiger 1s, four Tiger IIs and one Jagdtiger.
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