Project #5: Tamiya 1/35 German King Tiger Part 2

Objective:

To camouflage the tank

The Paints:
Dark Yellow
Dark Green
Brown
Black
Silver.

Painting:

Work from light colours to darker colors. After Surfacer, Dark Yellow was applied evenly on the entire model (should have done the gradation as I have for my Gundams...).

Then Dark Green was applied as the first part to camouflaging this Tiger. From the box, the Dark green patterns seems easy to follow but soon realised that the pattern doesn't quite "work" for the top part of the tank...So I decided to go with the flow and follow my preference in the end.

Brown + Black (1:1) for the brownish tone on the camouflage (As I am using Gaia paint this mix was close enough. If using Tamiya, red brown is the colour to use).

Black + Silver (1:0.5) for the tracks. Studied from the web, some don't bother to paint it and go straight for weathering. Not sure I did the right thing...

The dots are then applied using Tamiya Enamels.

Here are some of the pictures. King Tiger fresh from the factory:

It looks like I have overcome my first hurdle: Camouflaging.

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Project #5: Tamiya 1/35 German King Tiger Part 1

The Project
Ok... this is out of the blog's theme..
What the hell! This has to be my favorite tank of all time.
Not building 1 is a sin!

The Box:

There are 2 versions to this kit. Another kit contains photo-etched parts and metal barrel!
As this is a practice kit, I decided not to invest too heavily in it thus bought the one without. And I regretted it. I bought the photo-etch grills later

and the cost already exceed the kit that comes with it...

Objectives:

No need to make this tank as close to history. Just need to learn the following:
1) Camouflage airbrushing
2) Weathering
3) Facial painting
4) Diorama

Duration:

2 months

Building:

A very straightforward process to build it as compared to some Master Grade Gundams. Just remember to use Tamiya's Thin Cement. Its a wonderful cement for small parts like On Vehicle Maintenance (OVM) and small fragile parts.

The kit comes with rubber tracks instead of a molded one.After building it, I felt that it should have used molded tracks instead...

Anyway, I managed to build the entire tank and its diorama set (will review this later in the blog) when I was building Kyshatria.

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