Finishing the Initial Production Tiger Ausf. H1 142 | Abt. 501 Africa | 1/35 | RFM 

Thanks Mike!

Thanks mate, vignette is planed and layed out - still haveing to wait for the keys to the new modeling territory : )

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

I feel with you. That damn cable poped the holder multiple times, had to use the printed ones in the end xD

Thanks NOB. Stay safe my friend.

Thanks mate, I can't wait too finaly start getting into doing terrain. I hope to be set up for in within the next 2 months

Thank you Greg. I hope I don't overstep when I recommend you not to build Bovington Tiger with the RFM-5001U kit. It does not include a turret with escape hatch anymore and you will need to source an early front glacis from spare parts as well. A kit of a early tiger would be better here than a initial. I got Dragons tiger 131 kit for Christmas looking forward to build within the next months.

Thanks Steve!

No they rusted in the desert ... trust me . At night it's cold hence you get condensation

Thanks Patrizio.

142 arrived almost new, later it was blown up and burned out. I guess we can do what we want with this one.

Thanks Rob!

Thank you José!

Danke Dir!

Thank you Timothy

Just no, mate, just no. Erwin had no Tigers directly at his disposal and was far too inteligent for such an stupid statement.

Thanks Paul!

Hi Kai you are most welcome thanks to you, I have now started to get more interested in the production and more technical stuff with regards to both Tigers and Panther Tanks or just any Panzer for that matter I've been buying more technical books such as the Nurnberg's Panzer Factory a photographic study which is a great book to have but I enjoy all your video's. so keep safe and happy modelling my friend.😎👍

@@paulhumphriesz4557 Very nice, mate. Suddenly these vehicle look different, not just one like the other : ) Great book you got there, I will build some Panthers out of it during the later part of this year.

Hallo Michael. Danke für deinen Kommentar. Den nächsten Tiger kennste sicherlich, den hab ich bei Dir auch schon gesehen : )

Thank you Ethan, I can asure you: It will be a long time before I do a 3-tone Henschel Tiger... There are many other interessting ones on my to-do list.

thanks man!

Thanks 👍

Thanks Vas, how long do you sit on your 3 kits? I kind of would like to build a later Tiger too but I've to stay for a while with the initial stuff. V1 is calling for me.

@@Tankbrusher well i started two of them 3 years ago :D but i was building aircraft then too, now i am just concentrating on amour... its less stressful for sure especially if you have a 4yr old boy who loves planes. Only 1 Fw190 survived and all the allies perished at the hands of one four year old super villain... kids are fun i didn't expect this to be your last Kitty you probably have a few lined up hehe

I'd break it down to the availability of supportive logistics. If both you and your maintenance company is on the run, it's showing in the equipment for sure. The books "Repairing the Panzers" are very good in adding substance to the context you brought up.

Hallo Joachim, danke Dir. Leider wird's immer schwieriger mit den Gadgets je kleiner die Sachen ausfallen sollen. In 1/72 würde ich versuchen die Schablonen mit dem 3D drucker herzustellen, solange die nicht ausgehärtet sind, ist das material schön flexibel. Bisher sind meine Versuche bei so richtig kleinen Teilen (sub-mm) allerdings wenig erfolgreich gewesen. Wäre schon froh wenn endlich ein Werkzeughalter in 1/35 ordentlich heraus käme. ich wünsche Dir ein schönes Wochenende und auf bald!

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Thanks. I'm not to firm in contempory history but for the little I know the whole mid to south part of the east front was considered tropical area for the camoflage. There is this gap till feb. '43 before tanks rolled out in Ral 7028 we modelers have a hard time judgeing between dirt, tropical - and newly issued Dunkelgelb.

I have the amusing hobby kit if you ever wanted to collab...

I most likely never going to build a VK1602, I'm stuck with Tigers for a while. It's otherwise not worth designing the parts I need for them. You can make contact with me on facebook, I'm sure we can figure something out what we can work on together.

I have discord...

But not Facebook so far

Danke. Ich nutze nur Lack für die Grundfarben. Da gibts ne Firma, die benennt ihre als ,,realen farben". Mehr Werbung mach ich für die aber auch nicht ; ) Verdünnung ist, Mr. Color Leveling Thinner. Mit Ammo Acrylics habe ich keine guten Erfahrungen gemacht, leider.

I actually do meen "1943 when dark yellow becomes a thing..." These "thhheeer.". "fhhhooor..." sounds are pretty hard to my German tongue : ) such stuff can slip past me from time to time, I'll take better care next time - thanks for pointing it out.

@@Tankbrusher i knew what you ment im a big fan of your channel you make some really amazing model tanks

mate, feedback is always appreciated from my side. The number thing is on my list : )

Thanks for your input Repo. I don't recall me having issues with the masks on that one. From the sec. I placed my polyurethane primers in the same spot where I keep my Daragon DS tracks, my problems went away ; ) If paint gets removed with the masks, it's an issue of sweaty fingers more than anything else - used gloves on my latest builds and everything was fine.

@@Tankbrusher 12:00 you show multiple spots of paint lift on the port side Balkenkreuz.

@@xRepoUKx yeah I've seen it too, sweaty fingers were the reason on this one - didn't clean it properly before painting.

It's a Wehrmacht vehicle. Not an SS one. These were "independ battalions" -> Abteilung; attached to larger fromations, so there could be devisional markings. The 501 had a stalking tiger as personal unit insigna, not sure when this came up - with this vehicle we are right at the beginning. I'll have a close look after christmas and report back in a week.

You can count them to inital production. Post-inital or Africa Initial would be more accurate. All early Tigers more features different from this one compared to this vs one of the first nine. I'm counting as inital, till about chassis 100 to post inital (border to early is the Ausf H2 Papertank for me) then I start with early early, bovington tiger would be early early to me

@@Tankbrusher then it isn't initial production its early production so you are being misleading. You did a good job building and painting but at least get the information correct about the tank. It is an early production Tiger 1

@@johnbennett348 I don't agree. But there is little point in disscussing made up terms anyways.

You definitly have a point there! I'll give it a shot next time, yet I do fear tropen camo looks like dunkelgelb when painted over a bright base coat. Not going to do advanced weathering stuff anymore, for spare time I'm already gridlocked to designing aftermarket parts atm anyways. Not even finding the time for another video edit.

It's called primer. Isn't it. Dark Yellow is an ocher, not a Yellow, therefore going red for an undercoat is not necessary. Not painting Warhammer 40K Imperial Fists here. ; )

@@Tankbrusher They were all painted red oxid primer, the dark yellow were a base color not primer.

@@nikolajc7617You're not telling me anything new. On the modelling / crafts side: An Ocher is opaque, a yellow translucent. With opaque paint your base coat can be any neutral color, on translucent colors you need a primer / base coat that works for the later shadows. That's why you better paint red under yellow but you don't have to when using ocher.

@@Tankbrusher Yeah whatever, but the tanks were painted with red oxid primer before the base color anyway.

@@nikolajc7617Yes, I know. You're not telling me anything new by repeating this ; ) Still it does not matter for the result as scale model with the paints I used to get the Tropentarn established, that's what I'm trying to tell you.

Danke dir, wieder was gelernt!

@@Tankbrusher Sie sind fantastisch. Ich mahle Subbuteo spieler..aber Sie haben mir viel beigebracht! Unglaublich gut, ich werde NIE so gut sein. Danke!

In welchem Zusammenhang bitte?

@@Tankbrusher ich meine damit das abkleben der Turm Nr. einfach mal frei Hand das muss nicht immer wie mit denn Lineal gezogen sein ansonsten super toll Gebaut und die Farbe alles stimmig ich habe gerade ein tolles Farb Video gesehen von einer Feld Werkstatt man sieht wie sie eine Turm Nr. mit einer Schablone auf pinseln und die Tarnung rauf lacken so wie sie lustig sind da ist nichts so genau !! immer Ruff damit ich glaube wir Modellbauer sind damit viel zu genau schöne grüße aus Hamburg roni ps. den depp nimm ich zurück 👍

@@baer1204 Ich kann mich erinnern gesagt zu haben es nicht mit dem Ausrichten zu übertreiben. Deinen Videolink hat YT automatisch gefressen, da kann ich nichts machen - das war aber das Video vom Bacuffz, das schaue ich mir nachher an. Jetzt mal kurz zu deinem Argument - Im Prinzip richtig, hier aber fehlplatziert. Die Abt. 501 ging sehr gut ausgestattet und vorbereitet nach Afrika - die Fahrzeuge kamen alle fertig frisiert in Italien an. Es wurde eben nicht im Felde lackiert sondern in Deutschland in der Kaserne - die Fotos vom Abladen in Fallingbostel sind in Ruffs Buch. Das ist alles fotographisch belegbar. Recht hast Du wenn wir und stattdessen die Abt. 502 mit ihren allerersten Tigern in Russland anschauen - da wurde zwischen November '42 und März '43 bestimmt 4 mal neu durchnummeriert. Teils mit Kreide, dann kamm der erste Winteranstrich - und als der Haufen dann auf 5 Panzer zusammengeschossen war, mit schwarz auf ganzflächig weißem Anstrich oder man war ohne Turmnummer unterwegs. Da kann man heute alles schön differentzieren. Ich kann dir raten auf pauschalisierte ,, das hat keinen gejuckt" Argumente zu verzichten, die Dinger waren sauteuer und die Obrigkeit hatte ein gutes Auge auf diese Eliteverbände. Beim Panther lässt sich das ebenfalls schön belegen. Da sollte man immer die Situation ganzheitlich sehen. Zwischen Ende '42 und '44 gibt es gewaltige Unterschiede - Bis die Verfügungsräume mit frisch produzierten und halb ausgerüsteten Fahrzeugen vom Bahnwagon herunter erschlossen werden sollten, ist's für meinen Tiger noch eine Weile hin. (142 hat Afrika nicht wieder verlassen...)

👍👍@@Tankbrusher

For the future I cover building stuff accurate and converting kits to interessting vehicles not available as injection mold alone (Prototype Hetzer is lined up) You did find me in the transition phase. Weathering will be limited to techniques that can be achived in one weekend only. I'm not into weathering. Neither I have the time, nor artistic talent/background, nor do I enjoy it. Rest of the time I need to design stuff. ; )

@@Tankbrusher 👌👌👌👌👌👌

Hey, kannst mich gern auf Instagram anschreiben. Grüße Kai

@@Tankbrusher Hi Kai,leider habe ich kein Instagram.Nur FB,Whatsapp und eMail :0( Lg Marco

@@Tankbrusher ok dann nicht.ich lösche meind eMail Adresse jetzt hier.Schade!