1/35 Tiger II Ausf B "Late production" - Revell/ICM
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 5:11 am
It's funny how one owns opinion can change dramatically, to make a 180 degree turn.
I have never really been interested in the King Tiger or Tiger II before, but when I saw the tank "live" some time ago, my opinion totally changed.
To see the sheer size of the beast, the shape, the details, made me curious to try to build one.
Perhaps not exactly the same object as I saw, but still a tank that was (perhaps even knocked out) in the Belgian Ardennes late 1944.
So, made some research of different kits, despite that Meng was the preferred one, when I saw the Revell/ICM kit on the shelf in a general store, I made an instant decision and went for the Revell kit. Which again is originally ICM's kit from 2016, rather new in other words.
The kit itself is pretty straight forward to build, will not be too challenging. The plastic of the sprues is soft, perhaps a little bit too soft. And tis probably might be one reason that for example the upper hull is slightly twisted and will need some bending exercise.
What I especially enjoy most, in building tanks, is that you can immediately start to glue the pieces together! As most of the paintwork will happen in a later stage. So you actually will have something concrete in your hands pretty soon. Airplanes being more or a less the opposite, with cockpait detailing etc etc.
Let's see what this build will lead us into!
- Kari
I have never really been interested in the King Tiger or Tiger II before, but when I saw the tank "live" some time ago, my opinion totally changed.
To see the sheer size of the beast, the shape, the details, made me curious to try to build one.
Perhaps not exactly the same object as I saw, but still a tank that was (perhaps even knocked out) in the Belgian Ardennes late 1944.
So, made some research of different kits, despite that Meng was the preferred one, when I saw the Revell/ICM kit on the shelf in a general store, I made an instant decision and went for the Revell kit. Which again is originally ICM's kit from 2016, rather new in other words.
The kit itself is pretty straight forward to build, will not be too challenging. The plastic of the sprues is soft, perhaps a little bit too soft. And tis probably might be one reason that for example the upper hull is slightly twisted and will need some bending exercise.
What I especially enjoy most, in building tanks, is that you can immediately start to glue the pieces together! As most of the paintwork will happen in a later stage. So you actually will have something concrete in your hands pretty soon. Airplanes being more or a less the opposite, with cockpait detailing etc etc.
Let's see what this build will lead us into!
- Kari
