Rye Field Model Tiger I Middle Production  

Great kits both of them but I have to say that I enjoyed the Sherman build more even though the Tiger I is my favorite tank. Good luck with your build :)

Thank you 😀

Very cool! I am not aware of any full interior 1:16 scale. That would be awesome!

Haha!!! Yeah this is the only way to do it ;)

It is definitely doable and I urge you to start it as it is very rewarding. Also keep in mind that the kit contains a lot of unused parts (if I put all together they can easy take 4 full sprues). Good luck and I hope my videos will help you to your building process :)

Great to hear! Painting skills are transferable I guess. Funny, I am in exactly opposite phase. I am trying to use my armour modelling skills to miniatures 🤔

@@GeorgeModellingforBeginners I started out with scale modeling funny enough and became bored, and used weathering,chipping etc on minatures then learned about all kinds of painting techniques like blending, chromatic and zenithal.....I own 2 3d techniquesin printers so I learned to use blender and create my own files

Good luck with yours.

Takom has full interior kits. What I'm waiting for is the Trumpeter 1/16 full interior kit of the Tiger I mid or late model versions to be produced and released. Their King Tiger kit is outstanding, and superbly accurate in the details.

Thanks man. It went together beautifully but you need to be extra careful as (especially on the turret) there is literally no room for mistakes. Good luck with yours :)

Thank you very much and I definetly encourage you to build it yourself.

Thanks. I wish I had better reference books to help me with and add some extra details.

Full interior Panther is on my radar. The cutaway or clear parts options are great to show off the intetior and keep the model as a whole.

I built the clear option.No texture and 70% of work hidden still.Cutaway has texture and all part options,you have the excuse with cutaway to leave whatever parts out you want for a view of under fans and rear of engine.If you do get one,dry fit PE floor frame before you glue hull floor and sides.Mr metal color Dark iron is really versatile paint,you can use it as a weak wash over grey styrene.After buffing with stiff brush the graphite pigment leaves a micro thin metallic coating,that you can reveal with cocktail stick scratching uncured citadel or valleho paints.Good base for interiors.Used it on tiger,sturmtiger and panther.I'm painting some parts inside with Chrome silver and aluminium too as a base under the citadel air.Its less random,more precise than hairspray,more realistic than 'chipping' with paintbrush.I tried all colours in range,these were the best 3.Goodluck.The RFM mrap came,its scary as hell,but looks beautiful.

All part options'. You get normal turret and hull as well as cutaway parts.And 20 options,heartbreaking options.

@@darronhedges5873 which kit did you build (kit number)? So many variations.

Ive built that tiger,the sturmtiger,clear hull panther 1st release with only clear parts for hull and turret,no normal textured hull turret option.The Panther i'm halfway through now(the best choice-i think)is 5019 kit,it has everything you could possibly need.(PE tool clamp's not inc).Ive also built thier Easy 8,have firefly on way from china and have the new ATV MRAP.Ryefield made a kit under name Revosys,one kit a VK3601 with most of the interior.Its a gem,overlooked too.They just released it again under RFM minus interior and a ton of major options in 1st 'Revosys' release.Again RFM #5019 having Usual turret and hull and cutaway turret and hull gives you it all and leaves it to you.

Call Guinness please, 67 years of modelling, well done sir. Out of curiosity how many models did you build? I agree on the overengineering comment. However, I have to admit that I never came across to more detailed kits than the full interior RFM kits. Off course they are not as easy as other options but the fit is phenomenal. I am guessing you finished the non-interior version of the Sherman? How was the fit?

I have no idea, but it’s in the hundreds. As a kid, sometimes I’d build one a week. When I look at old model kits websites, I just go “built that, built that” and so on. No, didn’t do the non-interior version. I want to build their Abrams with interior to. I have the Meng Bradley with interior which will be an interesting comparison.

I cannot understand why people complain about models having too many parts. Or ever we hav fought for more detail and now it is here. E old kit with fewer parts are still there, buy them. Please don’t ruin it for he rest of us. Thank you.

Sorry for the late reply, I was away with work the last month. I do not remember having any issues with this particular piece. Although I remember having some fit issues in general with the gun. Everything fit very tight and at some pieces I had to extra sand them down in order to fit. Always try to dry fit them before install.

Hi there. I wouldn't recommend RFM kits to a beginner especially not their full interior kits. Even the RFM exterior kits look complicated (never build one for myself). Same goes for most of Dragon kits. Tamiya kits definitely aim to beginners, this is how I started myself. I would recommend to pick yourself an old Tamiya kit and practice some techniques (few at each kit). Then as you build up your modelling skills you will have more confidence to try more complicated kits. Interior kits are by far the most demanding due to the complexity of planning, paint both sides, build/paint subassemblies and attach painted parts (always something can go wrong). The sequence of the instructions are just for building purposes and you have to go back and forth a lot of times. Saying all that, I should encourage you to start modelling as you will have so much fun even if the final result is not what you would expect. I hope that helps and I wish you good luck with your project (whatever you will choose).

Hi Tim. I bought them separately as I already owned 80% of the colours I used. If I remember correctly, I only bought two Vallejo paints the 71.108 Azure blue and 70.918 Ivory. What set did you bought?

@@GeorgeModellingforBeginners oh god dude I got German colors 40-45 I think, the rust and wart set of paint and one more.. I just wanna make mine as good as yours. Those two colors you used for the interior though???

@@tjm7275 ok I am sure they will be accurate although I doubt if they include the interior colours. Yes these two Vallejo colours are for the intetior.

@@GeorgeModellingforBeginners thanks pal I really appreciate your gekp

@@tjm7275 any time

Luckily they are pre drilled from the inside. You just need to drill them through. Very easy task.

Do you mean in the turret? Unfortunate my reference books did not shown all the angles. There is a chance that the parts to be included and not called out (like the instrument panel of driver).

@@GeorgeModellingforBeginners Sorry english, in fact, the instructions do not list many parts of the turret and cannon although they are included in the sprue. If you look at Wittmann's Tiger S04 you see the differences.... it's a shame because you did it really well .. I'm doing it too, and I was wrong to glue the inside of the turret where there are two different shades of color .. now I will become stupid

@@iamtd7913 I guess you will hand paint the parts now. To be honest I was very lucky the way I constructed the sub-assemblies and put them all together at the end. The gun basket is literally has space less than 1mm from the back of the turret. Good luck with yours.

Yes - interior turret walls are missing items; MP-40, vision blocks, gas mask cannisters, electrical panel, flare gun, etc. Excellent build though. The academy kit includes all of the turret wall parts.

@@tophermillman1991 also missing electrical and comms boxes on the turret walls as well as the aforementioned personal equipment. Gotta see what I have in my spare parts 📦 for this project.

This is 2016 kit.