AFV Club Tiger I

[Steve Jones]

Looking really good Bob. The Zim damage is spot on and will look great once weathered. Wonderful work for a practice piece

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Steve. :smiling3:

With that in mind, this weekend I have mostly been weathering.

I started with a thin raw umber oil wash on the Zim. I didn't want it to look too dark, but still show some detail. After that I pin washed the rest of the detail with a dark brown enamel.

Once dried I gloss coated again then applied some mild rust and dirt streaking and some silver dry brushing. I think I'm going to leave it at that, other than adding some dust with pigments when the tools and cables are installed, which I hope to do tonight.

Edited to add: I also still have to do some rusting on the exhausts.

[Si Benson]

Very nice Bob, I do like weathering so far:smiling4: :thumb2:

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Si.

[scottie3158]

Bob,
The weathering is looking good mate

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Paul. :smiling3:

I pushed on well tonight. Got the spare tracks, tools, cables and PE tie downs (including some bloody small wing nuts) installed. Also finished weathering the tracks.

[scottie3158]

Looking good mate, the rusted items look particularly good.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers.

[Mickc1440]

That's looking really nice Bob, the weathering is nice and subtle.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Mick.

[Mr Bowcat]

Hi guys,

Finally got this one finished last night. Had a nightmare with the rubber tracks as they wouldn't stay glued together, the CA kept breaking when I tried to flex them over the wheels. I ended up re gluing them then sewing them together with cotton thread which seemed to do the trick.

Last things done were to add some mud pigment to the wheels and install the last couple of PE parts (MG42 sight and the weird umbrella aerial thing).

With that, its done. Pics here:

https://www.scale-models.co.uk/threads/bowcats-1-35-afv-club-tiger-1.33681/

[Steve Jones]

Nice update Bob. Those butterfly nuts are a real pig not only to put on but to keep on until the end of the painting sections. Glad you enjoyed this practice build. I will look in on the finished build.