By the way, that Jagdpanther of yours is a prime example of how a simple build can be made to look drop dead gorgeous. Congratulations on another superb restoration - I have one just like that that I now have the courage to repaint!
Just wanted to thank you again for your videos on rehabilitating vintage Tamiya models. I coveted these kits in the 70s and 80s when I could not afford them . They seem to be ridiculed nowadays for their admitted inaccuracies when compared to models from Dragon or other newer manufacturers. These are nostalgic builds for me, and you show just how attractive these old classics can be with good painting techniques and some reasonably simple upgrades. Thanks for these great videos!!
thanks for the compliments! I always laugh when the Accuracy snobs complain about these older kits, then botch the paintjob on their modern expensive super kit. It goes to show it doesn't matter how good the kit is, if it's got a shit paintjob, you will have shit results!
John! This is a fun and cool Rebuild! I saw this while taking a break from wiring a Convoy light on my 1/16 RC Jagdpanther and enjoyed it thoroughly! Thank you! Amazing Job on bringing the Beast back to Life.
Ok John. Please tell ,e how to fix this: I dropped a Tamiya 1/35 Jagdtiger build without the running gear on and the tips of two of the inboard torsion bars cracked off. I had to order a whole new kit to possibly do a new lower. My other idea was to get some Evergreen tubing that has an inner diameter same as the wheel tip of the two torsioners and pack it with Tamiya quick type epoxy. Then, cut off the tubing and sand. I don’t think ELO will help here.
yes glues alone will not work. It's a simple fix If you still have the broken axels on hand. I would use the following repair, drill a small hole in the center of the axel about half way in and the swing arm with a pinvise and a small Dremel bit. I would then super glue a length of wire that is the same size as the small hole into the axel with a portion of the wire sticking out about an 1/8 of an inch or so. Once the length of wire is glued in and snipped to shape you can plug the axel into the new hole drilled into the swing arm with a drop of super glue. This technique works just about every time as long as the hole is perfectly drilled and you still have the original axel. This is the same repair technique I did here, but on your build it will be a smaller scale and size, th-cam.com/video/enp0CeqfRnU/w-d-xo.html for the wire I use floral wire as it's on the stiffer side. Hopefully this helps.
@@oddball759mm dear sir: one preliminary issue: the torsion bar breaks off the sprue were to clean. They snapped like a twig at an angle at 5he tip. Should I simply saw off the angled tip portion to get the rest of it flat so the drilling and wire work?.
@@ocsplc I'm not sure I understand, from your description the part broke on the swing arm body not the axel? its a little hard to get my bearings on the break from the description given
@@oddball759mm it’s the tips of the inside swing arms where the wheels attach. There are four of them that have the tips cracked in an isosceles shape. Weird. I know. What I did before your advice was apply Tamiya quick type putty over the tips and I’m lightly sanding and trying to recreate the shape. I did order a new kit, should I just put ELO on the inside of the hull and pull those suckers out and just start from scratch?
@@ocsplc If I'm understanding your predicament, the very tip of the axel is cracked yes? There is still an length of axel remaining? Is the length of axel still sufficient to hold the wheel? If it is the tip is not relevant and the wheel can still be glued on in place with out and issue, other wise the busted tip could have still gone in place with just glue if again the length is not too long. Honestly this is difficult to do on youtube comment section, shoot me an email to info@eastcoastarmory.com with pics and I can help out further. I also have some spare tamiya Panther Swing arms in my bin. If you need a few hit me up and I can see if we can get that tank restored.
Lovely looking kit and rebuild,however you canny do tracks my boi, there is a bend between the front idler and first road wheels of the tracks,on both sides of a number of your builds,you should of added vent covers on the rear engine decks,should of also put the tracks in hot water first to mold them into the correct fit,ya muppet lol. Fantastic airbrush work btw,I appreciate your content
Nah, the tracks are fine the way it is. Every one of my panthers have the vent covers, so omitting them on a build or two breaks up the monotony and adds variety to the collection
@@oddball759mm this is why I don’t have a TH-cam channel. Too many malcontent armchair experts picking apart your videos like a Vulture on the highway…
I don't give out dimensions, sorry. If you want to scratch build the KT find a set of plans online and scale them up. There is a formula on how to do that and that too is found online.
@@aluis_YT Get a 1/16 scale model kit, measure all dimensions in cm and multiply by 16/6 or 2.667 to give you the King Tiger's actual 1/6 scale dimensions in centimeters. If you use a 1/35 scale instead then multiply by 35/6 times each dimension you need (or by 5.833). A quick search of Google does NOT readily bring up plans. You could be at it for hours trying to find such plans so Oddball is not realy correct about that at this time. But you can buy 1/6 scale resin model parts from him which is cool. I have before and probably will again..
John, I'm not sure what you are typing in for a search because I just googled up "King tiger tank plans" and got about a dozen of good plans with side, top, front and back profiles. These are the type of drawings I have used in the past to scratch build several 1/6th scale models in my collection. In fact here is a link for one of the plans I found, www.pinterest.com/pin/566327721874106943/ There is also a book with scale plans in them that you can use and scale up with John's formula to get a 1/6th scale plan. It's basically the same as the link I posted above only the ones in the book are to 1/35 or 1/48 so you don't have to recalculate the size from the one off of google to then calculate again for 1/6 www.amazon.com/German-Late-Armored-Fighting-Vehicles/dp/0811733556
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By the way, that Jagdpanther of yours is a prime example of how a simple build can be made to look drop dead gorgeous. Congratulations on another superb restoration - I have one just like that that I now have the courage to repaint!
Just wanted to thank you again for your videos on rehabilitating vintage Tamiya models. I coveted these kits in the 70s and 80s when I could not afford them . They seem to be ridiculed nowadays for their admitted inaccuracies when compared to models from Dragon or other newer manufacturers. These are nostalgic builds for me, and you show just how attractive these old classics can be with good painting techniques and some reasonably simple upgrades. Thanks for these great videos!!
thanks for the compliments! I always laugh when the Accuracy snobs complain about these older kits, then botch the paintjob on their modern expensive super kit. It goes to show it doesn't matter how good the kit is, if it's got a shit paintjob, you will have shit results!
John! This is a fun and cool Rebuild! I saw this while taking a break from wiring a Convoy light on my 1/16 RC Jagdpanther and enjoyed it thoroughly! Thank you! Amazing Job on bringing the Beast back to Life.
Ok John. Please tell ,e how to fix this: I dropped a Tamiya 1/35 Jagdtiger build without the running gear on and the tips of two of the inboard torsion bars cracked off. I had to order a whole new kit to possibly do a new lower. My other idea was to get some Evergreen tubing that has an inner diameter same as the wheel tip of the two torsioners and pack it with Tamiya quick type epoxy. Then, cut off the tubing and sand. I don’t think ELO will help here.
yes glues alone will not work. It's a simple fix If you still have the broken axels on hand. I would use the following repair, drill a small hole in the center of the axel about half way in and the swing arm with a pinvise and a small Dremel bit. I would then super glue a length of wire that is the same size as the small hole into the axel with a portion of the wire sticking out about an 1/8 of an inch or so. Once the length of wire is glued in and snipped to shape you can plug the axel into the new hole drilled into the swing arm with a drop of super glue. This technique works just about every time as long as the hole is perfectly drilled and you still have the original axel. This is the same repair technique I did here, but on your build it will be a smaller scale and size, th-cam.com/video/enp0CeqfRnU/w-d-xo.html for the wire I use floral wire as it's on the stiffer side. Hopefully this helps.
@@oddball759mm dear sir: one preliminary issue: the torsion bar breaks off the sprue were to clean. They snapped like a twig at an angle at 5he tip. Should I simply saw off the angled tip portion to get the rest of it flat so the drilling and wire work?.
@@ocsplc I'm not sure I understand, from your description the part broke on the swing arm body not the axel? its a little hard to get my bearings on the break from the description given
@@oddball759mm it’s the tips of the inside swing arms where the wheels attach. There are four of them that have the tips cracked in an isosceles shape. Weird. I know. What I did before your advice was apply Tamiya quick type putty over the tips and I’m lightly sanding and trying to recreate the shape. I did order a new kit, should I just put ELO on the inside of the hull and pull those suckers out and just start from scratch?
@@ocsplc If I'm understanding your predicament, the very tip of the axel is cracked yes? There is still an length of axel remaining? Is the length of axel still sufficient to hold the wheel? If it is the tip is not relevant and the wheel can still be glued on in place with out and issue, other wise the busted tip could have still gone in place with just glue if again the length is not too long. Honestly this is difficult to do on youtube comment section, shoot me an email to info@eastcoastarmory.com with pics and I can help out further. I also have some spare tamiya Panther Swing arms in my bin. If you need a few hit me up and I can see if we can get that tank restored.
Lovely looking kit and rebuild,however you canny do tracks my boi, there is a bend between the front idler and first road wheels of the tracks,on both sides of a number of your builds,you should of added vent covers on the rear engine decks,should of also put the tracks in hot water first to mold them into the correct fit,ya muppet lol.
Fantastic airbrush work btw,I appreciate your content
Nah, the tracks are fine the way it is. Every one of my panthers have the vent covers, so omitting them on a build or two breaks up the monotony and adds variety to the collection
@@oddball759mm this is why I don’t have a TH-cam channel. Too many malcontent armchair experts picking apart your videos like a Vulture on the highway…
Hello, what are the measurements of your 1/6 scale model of the King Tiger, I want to make one at that scale
I don't give out dimensions, sorry. If you want to scratch build the KT find a set of plans online and scale them up. There is a formula on how to do that and that too is found online.
@@oddball759mm where can i find those plans
@@aluis_YT a google search will yield lots of results
@@aluis_YT Get a 1/16 scale model kit, measure all dimensions in cm and multiply by 16/6 or 2.667 to give you the King Tiger's actual
1/6 scale dimensions in centimeters. If you use a 1/35 scale instead then multiply by 35/6 times each dimension you need (or by 5.833). A quick search
of Google does NOT readily bring up plans. You could be at it for hours trying to find such plans so Oddball is not realy correct about that at this
time. But you can buy 1/6 scale resin model parts from him which is cool. I have before and probably will again..
John, I'm not sure what you are typing in for a search because I just googled up "King tiger tank plans" and got about a dozen of good plans with side, top, front and back profiles. These are the type of drawings I have used in the past to scratch build several 1/6th scale models in my collection. In fact here is a link for one of the plans I found, www.pinterest.com/pin/566327721874106943/
There is also a book with scale plans in them that you can use and scale up with John's formula to get a 1/6th scale plan. It's basically the same as the link I posted above only the ones in the book are to 1/35 or 1/48 so you don't have to recalculate the size from the one off of google to then calculate again for 1/6 www.amazon.com/German-Late-Armored-Fighting-Vehicles/dp/0811733556
Hello, what are the measurements of the King Tiger (Height, width and length) thanks, please answer me
I don't know off hand and it's not something I have the time to to look up, sorry
is that I want to make a King Tiger at 1/6 scale what like yours
Please answer me :(
@@aluis_YT Like I stated earlier I'm not getting you that info, sorry
Google it. It will come up.
When will the next update be
I have a 1/6 KT video update dropping this week
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