Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Mid-War early Tiger.

I have wanted a Panzer Grey Tiger in my collection for a while and had this one sitting in my resin mountain for a while. The motivation of the Painting Challenge had me finally getting this one to completion.

The first Tiger tanks of WWII as far as I could find out entered combat around the Leningrad area in late 1942. The change to three colour camo occurred early in 1943.
I added an aerial to this tank. I haven't done that to a 15mm tank for a while. It's an old Battlefront Resin and metal model by the way. I think these will be replaced by plastic versions in gamers future collections.
The tank sits on Gale Force Nine cratered cobblestone roads. Pre-painted terrain. Very handy.
























I also added a rolled sheet to the turret to help break up the colour. I like single colour tanks because weathering seems to look so much better on them than camo tanks.

Cheers from Brendon

6 comments:

  1. Great work, really love the way you've mudded it up! I started reading this thinking it was a larger scale cat.

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  2. Great cat there mate. Smashing Ivan's is what Tiggers do best!

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  3. Very nice - I do like a grey panzer.
    cheers for sharing
    Dan

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  4. Thanks for the feedback everybody.
    cheers

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  5. Ooooh. Nice blog. I have a lot of FoW and Saga reading to do don't I, through your back-catalogue!

    BTW, are you - perchance - the same Kiwi who sent me some 11AD FoW tokens a while back? Odd question, maybe...

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