Summer G.B...'Some Tigers can't swim!'

[Centurion3RTR]

I was thinking the same Ian about the rain, looks terrible weather mate. But the Tiger looks great though, nice work Ron mate.

Have fun, John

[spanner570]

Thanks for taking the time to have a look at the Tigger boys and the nice comments. (You don't want to see it now though!)

Fear not chaps!

The present Mrs. Ron and me have a sure fire master plan to deal with adverse weather......

Batten down the hatches, place one 2ltr. box of good claret (room temp. of course) on the diddy campervan table, add two obscenely large glasses, some cashew nuts, and top off with AC/DC in the c.d. player (If no one on the camp site, volume 10 is used!!)

Then as if by magic, modelling and painting a Tiger 1 becomes dead easy and the weather can take a hike!!!

Cheers,

Ron

[Guest]

That's a mean looking cat Ron, great job on the Tiger!

[spanner570]

Thanks Adrian, glad you like it so far.

Here is a quick update:-

I have started on the base for the diorama.

When I was up in the loft, attacking a wasps nest (No, they were attacking me! Two stings v 1 good spraying, not a bad return, I suppose) I came across an old piece of 2" thick dense polyurethane foam, this has made a great base 'cos it was easy to carve out the hole for the tank.

To this I stuck a piece of 3/4" polystyrene sheet to form the river bank.

Finally, I coated the sides of the 'Hole' ect. with tile adhesive to get the muddy effect. I couldn't bring myself to permanently stick the tank in the mud, so once I was happy with the setting I carefully removed tigger and gave her a good bath in clean water!

Still to do are the figures, foliage, debris, a bit of work on extras for the tank and shine up the river.

Thanks for looking,

Cheers,

Ron

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[geegad]

This is looking nice like the work on the base Ron and the tank goes without saying but I will top notch looking forward to the finished item Geegad

[Ian M]

Now we can see the Spanner magic. I do enjoy seeing your diorama builds.

Ian M

[Centurion3RTR]

Not a bad days work Ron you've got the dio started, grounded some wasps then gave kitty a bath. Great work though Ron matey, and as Ian says "the Spanner magic".

Have fun, John

[Guest]

Ron mate the tiger looks ace and the dio is coming along good style i can't wait to see this one completed.

scott