Tiger II 113, left at a backyard in Mons
Tiger 113 passing through Beauvais at the end of August 1944 in colour
The tank after being abandoned at Mons in September 1944
an interesting piece of machinery to look at
later pulled in some kind of backyard (?)
the scene i want to recreate
current state of the Model. Built in 2016 with a horrible paint job.
after removing the mudguards i noticed the tracks were straight
put them down a little more realistically, but didn't glue them back in for later painting purposes
opened the rear turret hatch, built some handles, removed the tools that were molded to the hull, and removed the missing exhaust pipe. relocated the left rear mudguard to the right and caved in like it can be seen in the last photograph of the tank
Also removed the towing cables and front mudguards, drilled out the missing gun and removed the track links from the hull and turret
tried my hand on some custom Zimmerit. completely out of scale because its 1/72 and not 1/35 but it makes the model at least a bit more interesting and im mostly treating this build as an experiment.
primed to get a better picture of how the Zimmerit turned out
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6 7 February 2023, 23:27
JCThis is pretty cool. Building around a missing piece sounds like a fun challenge. I do the same sort of thing all the time except it's because I dropped a piece and can't find it, so not as much by choice lol.
3 March 2023, 01:46
FinnThis looks like a brave approach and so far a good one. Looking forward to see more!
3 March 2023, 09:15
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The Tiger II 113 got knocked out in Mons, Belgium in september 1944 during the retreatment of German forces from France and Belgium.
I decided to build this diorama because it features a Tiger II without its gun. I originally built this model in 2016 but took the gun for a different project because I was unhappy with its paint job. Now i have decided to reuse this broken model to create a realistic diorama
