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ome of my armor
work, even though some of the real ones were designed to go underwater to 13 meters, mine do not, but they do run. I have about 40, and some are a few grand a pop, and the whine from people in armor-land over prices is actually worse there than I see here. Still it makes me laugh when I hear people complain. Anyway, I'll put up three; first is the Jagdtiger. This was a conversion from a Tamiya King Tiger, AND prior to starting Merriman had given me a TAIG lathe and shown me how to use it. A photo of this tank by a buddy of mine made it into a few magazines.
Next up is the Panther Ausf. G from WeCoHe. When I got this tank in 2007, I was working on 3 other projects, one being the Mason Nautilus, so everything got shelved. The German company that produced it went broke about 75% into it, and we had got pre-orders of the kit, so wound up having to make the rest ourselves. Not much plastic on this one, the upper hull and turret body and you have to cut all the angles for each. The rest is metal, and there are 672 metal screws that go into the 16 pairs of roadwheels. Pickled all the 10 different varieties of metal, bondoed a lot, and it gets zimmerit using Milliput. To give you an idea, I quit modeling 3 separate times over this tank for a couple years each time. Got into muscle cars and old beetles, and didn't finish it for 12 years.
The last one is my first 'all metal' tank. This one I worked on almost straight and it still took me 4.5 years. Metal is a trick only to be experienced an all exterior detail better be on solid as this is a working model. Of course stuff with the base kit was wrong, including the gearboxes which I had to machine new drive shafts. The turret was really wrong and mounted in the wrong place on the upper deck, so it got a Tamiya turret and all the mods. For you lovers of Porsche products, this is the VK4501P or Porsche-Tiger. it was Porsche's entry in the Tiger competition and lost out to the Henschel VK4501H Tiger. Anyway, as they had already ordered 100 hulls, 90 of those were converted to tank destroyers, but one of the original 10 represented here went with the unit to Russia as a command tank.
Next up is the Panther Ausf. G from WeCoHe. When I got this tank in 2007, I was working on 3 other projects, one being the Mason Nautilus, so everything got shelved. The German company that produced it went broke about 75% into it, and we had got pre-orders of the kit, so wound up having to make the rest ourselves. Not much plastic on this one, the upper hull and turret body and you have to cut all the angles for each. The rest is metal, and there are 672 metal screws that go into the 16 pairs of roadwheels. Pickled all the 10 different varieties of metal, bondoed a lot, and it gets zimmerit using Milliput. To give you an idea, I quit modeling 3 separate times over this tank for a couple years each time. Got into muscle cars and old beetles, and didn't finish it for 12 years.
The last one is my first 'all metal' tank. This one I worked on almost straight and it still took me 4.5 years. Metal is a trick only to be experienced an all exterior detail better be on solid as this is a working model. Of course stuff with the base kit was wrong, including the gearboxes which I had to machine new drive shafts. The turret was really wrong and mounted in the wrong place on the upper deck, so it got a Tamiya turret and all the mods. For you lovers of Porsche products, this is the VK4501P or Porsche-Tiger. it was Porsche's entry in the Tiger competition and lost out to the Henschel VK4501H Tiger. Anyway, as they had already ordered 100 hulls, 90 of those were converted to tank destroyers, but one of the original 10 represented here went with the unit to Russia as a command tank.
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