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Mike's Panzer IV crew wondering where the motors are. Was bedeuten Sie, dass die Motoren nicht dort sind? (What do you mean the motors aren't there?) |
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Mike (on the left) and I met twice in 2004 at the Aberdeen Proving
Grounds in Maryland. This was in November sharing notes about our
hull roofs. |
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Closeup picture of Mike's right side rear mud guard that he had brought
to APG. Even the hinges were fabricated. |
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Mike's
left front hull with a nicely done zimmerit coating. |
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Left side with the Milliput putty used for the zimmerit coating and
modified road wheels with recessed hub caps.
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Closeup of the modified road wheels and the weld pattern formed with
Milliput around the hub.
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More
detail showing the rear of his Tiger. Mike has put a lot of effort
into the fine details, including these scratch built brass rear mud
guards and replacing M3 hex nuts and bolts with smaller hardware. |
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Work
has now progessed with additional detail shown here. |
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The
detail on the starter plate is the best I've seen. No detail is overlooked
on his Tiger. Nice closeup of the zimmerit. |
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A
detail not often seen, the bracket for the rear light mounted between
the left rear fender and its hinge. Custom made by Mike. |
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Lifting
lugs were originally fitted to the armored exhaust shield of the Tiger.
The Armortek Tiger does not include these. Mike made his own by rounding
the head on a M3 bolt and fitting a brass tube over the threads. Use
the heat shield to help determine location on the armor. |
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Image
of Mike's hand made brass 20 ton jack brackets fitted to the right
rear hull plate. |
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Comparison
of finished and unfinished aluminum track links. |
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Light
mounted to center of driver's front plate. This mounting location
was for Tiger's produced in August 1943 and later. |
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Once
again, Mike and I met at Aberdeen in July 2005 and compared each others
project progress. Here are our turrets, both with replaced roof's
and corrected slope. Mike's Tiger and Pz IV turret are on the right,
mine is unpainted on the left. |
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Closeup
picture of the mantlet. Notice the raised lettering and the additional
detail over the rear of the mantlet. The splash guard is represented
by the row of countersunk bolt heads and line that was cut into the
turret. More information about this detail can be found at Tiger1.info.
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Using
Vince's cupola upgrade, Mike added a redesigned handle, weld detail
along the sides of the hatch arm, and eliminated the space between
the hatch and arm. |
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The
turret of his Pz IV Ausf J. The turret skirts are scratchbuilt from
brass. He was able to take measurements from the Pz IV Hydrostatic
prototype at Aberdeen and make these skirts. Scale bolts, welds, and
rivets were also added for a museum quality model. |
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Comparison
of three 1/6th scale turrets. Tiger I, Pz IV, and M5 Stuart. |
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