Bowcat's 1/35 Tamiya King Tiger for Simon

[Si Benson]

Coming along very nicely Bob :thumb2:

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers guys.

[Mr Bowcat]

Afternoon chaps.

I pressed on with getting the running gear painted, weathered and installed.

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I've also decided to get the tracks fitted before adding the guards, just too much potential to knock them off even with fruils. Unfortunately I ran out of pins (I like to use .53 mil dress making pins) so I only managed to get one whole run done, and a third of the other. I've ordered more pins so will finish the tracks off when they arrive.

I wanted to get on with something else so turned my attention to the turret. The internal detail is sparse but as I'm planning on leaving the hatches open I painted and weathered anyway. The kit didn't come with any ammo for the racks, but I had some shells left over from another build so used those. They are much smaller than the correct ammo, but should give the impression if anyone looks in a hatch.

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Once the turret halves were together I applied the zimmerit and PE to the exterior.

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And I've also started working on some of the other PE bits.

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[Steven000]

Nice progress Bob :thumb2:

[Tim Marlow]

That’s building up really well Bob, great work.

[Steve Jones]

This is coming along really well Bob. Lovely work on the zim. Luvin your work

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers guys.

[Mr Bowcat]

Morning chaps.

I've had quite a productive weekend. The new pins arrived and I was able to finish and install the tracks. I tried burnishing fluid for the first time and I'm reasonably happy with the results. There were a quite a few areas on the outer tracks that didn't take, not quite sure why. The links were given 3 x 8 minute cycles in my ultrasonic cleaner before joining, and well agitated while in the burnishing fluid?? Still, nothing that some weathering won't hide.



With that out of the way I could get on with fitting the PE to the upper hull. The engine covers were quite tricky as they required 1mm standoffs.

[Guest]

Looking very good

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers mate.

[Jim R]

Hi Bob
This is coming on a treat. The ammo will look fine considering very little will be seen. Strange that the side zimm was short given that the rest looks to have fitted well. Getting the wheels on and sorted is a wise move. Excellent work with the PE - it does add some very nice detail. I have heard that one of the problems with burnishing fluid is that it doesn't take if there is even a slight smear of CA.
Jim

[Andy the Sheep]

Bob, I have admired for several minutes your fine work, PE in particular : it makes my fingetips eager to go back to the bench... :thumb2:

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers gents.

[adt70hk]

Just caught up on this Bob. Great work so far. Well done.

Andrew

[grumpa]

Excellent work Bob, am watching closely

Jim.