Hi Chris, wow your Tiger is slightly longer than my ship in 87 scale 2.160 metres, about 7 and a half feet , the real ships length is about 180 metres I will have to check.
Tony
boatman's 1/72 HMS Tiger C20 build
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Hi Chris, wow your Tiger is slightly longer than my ship in 87 scale 2.160 metres, about 7 and a half feet , the real ships length is about 180 metres I will have to check.
Tony
HI Tony yea she is near 8ft long should look quite a model when she is finished
chris
Hi Chris, here are the measurements of my ship build length is 187 metres, 7 metres out beam 26 metres draught 6.5 metres,she would sit well in the water, I say be pretty long in your ships scale, 72nd is very close to 87 scale.
Tony can't wait to see here in the water be an awesome site,may be I should of gone that way to .
Tony
Tony can't wait to see here in the water be an awesome site,may be I should of gone that way to .
Tony
HI Tony well to me your ship is a biggun as like my tiger is. But im getting a bit mixed up where your ship is concerned now the one you are building at the moment is a water line vershion to fit on your lawn to fit to you model railway isn't it ?. An you also talk of sayin maybe you should have gone my way so i take it that either you wished you had built a proper water borne vershion instead of the waterline vershion ? or you are goin to build a water borne vershion later to work from R/C ? NOW am I correct on this ?
ATB STAY SAFE chris
Hi Chris, yes my ship is a water line model the reason for that is with the draught she would not fitted in underneath the bridge only being 19 inches water line clearance but since I am razing the height to 2 foot could of being enough , never mind, I figured I build the hull out of cardboard being a learning curve can fix up the mistakes when I finely build the RC version, sorry to confuse you.
Yes again the ship sit at the dock or sit going in underneath the bridge, grass be the water, some ports the water is green I have seen why I do not know, you might .
This will shock you if I was going to go 1/72 scale my build be slightly longer than your Tiger , 8 and a half feet wow she would of being monster indeed and probably had to us 00 scale containers and trailers being a bigger scale that HO scale.
I started watching Star Gate SG-1 again tonight season one disc 3 two episodes.
Busy Sunday in the yard duties, no work on the bridge will tomorrow if I have time to after going to Bunning need to insect spray, big trouble with insects in the grass .
Take care Tony
HI Tony well if your ever do build your ship in 1/72 a hull joint is a must an yes I have the whole series of stargate brilliant tv
chris
HI Paul yes she should be a good match for Norfolk an yes its comin on I have got to soon build those hanger doors an boy are they difficult as they have to be dead spot on to fit an work it was difficult doin one on Norfolk but on tiger ive two to build an I like your man cave plenty of space there an i think you must have bought the shop out for how many paints there wow
chris
I can appreciate the accuracy/difficulty in building the hanger doors. Having working parts to a model makes things sooooo much more difficult. Ive just finished the mechanisms for the Panther turret and boy did that take some effort! I know you’ll figure it out, I can hear those cogs working in that brain of yours from here!
It really is impressive stuff Chris
Cheers
P
HI Fernando yes tiger gonna be a goodun if it all works out as there is still so much that can go wrong as im still tryin to get the hull right as it just wont pass inspection from me ive been told im overly fussy but I like to get the model at its best for me anyhow an glad you like the merlin on Norfolk boy shes stuffed with wirein in such a small helo but it all works thank goodness nice to see you on here
ATB STAY SAFE CHRIS
AN Paul yes to get things to work they have got to be right no if or buts about it an two hangers oh im lookin forward to the challenge an yes your turret ring on your panzer looked difficult as the gear ring was a bit to small wasn't it ? an you hear my old brain cogs tickin over from yours boy they must be low groans then have to get out the WD 40 then lol ps in the next up date on her i'll post an idea an diagrams on how to build an work these hanger doors but this idea is not mine as I see it at a small model show about 40 yrs ago all ive done is uprated it for my use an ive used it on all my ship models except Nimitz
chris
chris
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here ive built the hanger as far as I want to go for now till I build the hanger doors
here ive built the hanger as far as I want to go for now till I build the hanger doors
hanger bay from the bottom an as can be seen this unit is just screwed togeather so if I want to I can just undo the screws an the unit will come apart 
overall shot 
Nice place to park my many StuGs !!
Coming along very nicely Chris
Coming along very nicely Chris
G
Great work as always.
Cheers Bob but youd have to be careful you don't drive over the deck edge or your stug will be a new vershion of it the submarine stug
chris
thanks ken
NOW onto a very hard bit to build them hanger doors ( now this is not my idea as I see this in a tiny scale at a model show about 40 yrs ago ) all ive done is made the idea about 5 times bigger for my hanger doors these are what ive got to build an i done these diogram on my paint section so i know how to build them anyway the diograms first up is a shot of makein up the door posts
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