01 - Assembling the Ferdinand

the box 

upper part of the structure as it came from the factory, a rough plastic but without definitions that look like cast iron sheets, neither in grooves nor in cutting marks of a blowtorch. 

here I started to simulate the casting marks of the plate and torch cuts made on the sides of the other plates. 

 

cast iron texture applied to the rear panel. 

cast iron texture made on the left panel. 

torch marks made on the rim of the cannon ring and glued in place to make the cast iron marks. 

casting marks made on the cannon ring and installed water channels. I just noticed that they had water channels in photoetched after I glued the plastic ones, now will be with this one! 

more cast iron textures made at the bottom of the chassis. 

 

opening the ducts of electric motors and cast iron texture added to the rear panel. 

top closed, I was not excited to leave any hatch open! 

 

plastic parts almost done 

initially I was wanting to leave the Photoetched fenders to mount on the bergetiger (P), I even got to mount one side of the plastic and start destroying, but halfway through I didn’t like the result and gave up using the plastic ones 

so, let start them!  

first side 

 

first side finished after 4 hours of assembly! tomorrow i finish the other one! 

 

ventilation grille of electric motors in Photoetched, detail in my opinion even dispensable since it does not appear! 

hinges in Photoetched! I think it’s time to visit the ophthalmologist, it’s getting hard to see 

really????? 3mm In one piece to bend!? dafuk 

 

 

starting to assemble the LBL, the best invention of model making in my opinion!