1/72 Revell Tiger I (GuP Kuromine)

[BorgR3mc0]

This 1:72 Revell Tiger I was a present. I am nog much of an armour modeller but I do play World of Tanks a lot. In the game they have a tie in with Girls und Panzer, a Japanese anime about girls and tanks…basically all girl schools do tank battles (that is all I know, I have never seen of read GuP)
I am finishing this Tiger as the Tiger operated the Kuromine high school. I have this tank in my virtual garage and it is pretty good.
Now for the true “otaku”, this was a a Tiger I E whereas the series depict a H version (with Feifel airfilters and a different cupola). So it is going to be an approximation (I did remove all tools cm ,machine gun and spare tracks). Same goes for the decals, I found some decals that can pass but it is not going to be completely the same.
As it is a cartoon/comic tank I am going for a very high contrast and clean finish.
To achieve this I am using a colour modulation variant. Basically each panel gets its own lighting. In that way the should have a high contrast. Priming and lightning has been done. I am now going to a different layers of panzer yellow.

[KSaarni]

The paintwork looks really excellent!

- Kari

[LyleW]

Looks good, but....

[BorgR3mc0]

There is going to be no rust: I am aiming for clean and cartoonish.

[LyleW]

I suspected that would be the case. It is coming along quite nicely.

[Medicman71]

Very cool! I've seen some of those anime with the girls and tanks.

[Duke Maddog]

I've seen the Girlz und Panzers show and i9t is hilarious! I do like it alot. I am constantly amazed at how carefully they animate the tanks; no shortcuts, these are always crisply and accurately drawn.

Nice start Remco! I'll be following this one closely

[Floki]

Looking good!

[BorgR3mc0]

After the initial shading I have added the fist layer of yellow. A bit darker than panzer yellow. I am building up layers, next is going to be Panzer Yellow.

[Stikpusher]

Starting to look like a proper Tiger tank now.