General Rocket builds a Porsche

Purplethistle · Post by **Purplethistle** » May 4th, 2016, 7:46 pm

IIRC the 'Tigers' in Kellys heroes were made from old T-34s. will have to check that.

Looking the biz, G.R.

gnomemeansgnome · Post by **gnomemeansgnome** » May 4th, 2016, 7:48 pm

Very nice work.

general rocket · Post by **general rocket** » May 4th, 2016, 10:17 pm

Now with decals. The decals are taken from the Airfix kit, and represent an early Tiger.

A quick trawl of the spares box found some cables for the sides.

The cables turned out to be too long, so I hunted unsuccessfully through the spares box for more cables. Eventually even I caught on to the fact that I could shorten the cables that I had. So that is what I did.

I did find a load of tools too mount on the Tiger, but test mounts just made it look too busy. So I left them off.

Comments and criticism welcome.

Martin R · Post by **Martin R** » May 5th, 2016, 9:05 pm

Looking very good.

For a target. :-))

general rocket · Post by **general rocket** » May 5th, 2016, 11:46 pm

Almost a shock, but suddenly you realise that she is finished.
A few more details from the kit and the spares box, a little light weathering with diluted Revell light earth to break up the lines. And that is it.
Another satisfying build.

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And just for comparison, with the winner of the contract.
It's actually late model Tiger, but I don't suppose that matters much.

"IIRC the 'Tigers' in Kellys heroes were made from old T-34s. will have to check that."

Ex-Yugoslavian Army T34's, with body work welded on to make it look like a Tiger. Not the most convincing conversion when you look at them, but at least they made an effort. Unlike most such films.
Oddballs Sherman is also ex-Yugoslav army.

Comments and criticism welcome.

Post by **JamesPerrin** » May 6th, 2016, 10:52 am

Excellent work. Looks like you've built it OOB

TomW · Post by **TomW** » May 6th, 2016, 10:11 pm

I really like that

some of the paper designs for German AFV's were fascinating.

Regards

Tom

AndrewR · Post by **AndrewR** » May 6th, 2016, 10:37 pm

Excellent. Something a bit different.

general rocket · Post by **general rocket** » May 7th, 2016, 12:13 am

Thanks for the appreciation gentlemen.

"I really like that

some of the paper designs for German AFV's were fascinating."

As do I, I'm slowly working my way through them.

Post by **JohnRatzenberger** » May 7th, 2016, 1:50 am

Very good work.
It almost looks overbalanced with the gun and turret that far forward.

Martin R · Post by **Martin R** » May 7th, 2016, 4:33 am

Great job. Well done!

Regards

Martin

Purplethistle · Post by **Purplethistle** » May 7th, 2016, 3:52 pm

Cracking job G.R.

Post by **splash** » May 8th, 2016, 8:07 pm

Brilliant work on a most unusual subject, I look forward to seeing your next build.

Regards Splash

general rocket · Post by **general rocket** » May 8th, 2016, 9:37 pm

splash wrote:Brilliant work on a most unusual subject, I look forward to seeing your next build.

Regards Splash

Enjoying other peoples at the moment.

Martin R · Post by **Martin R** » May 10th, 2016, 10:26 pm

Hi General,

Remember to put a pic or two of the Porsche in the gallery.

Regards

Martin

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