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Model Forum / General / Models / September 2006Tiger I Interior detail
The Academy Tiger I is issued with interior details. The roadwheel set looks incorrect. Has anyone kitbashed the Tamiya Tiger I (both the early as well as the mid production versions) with the interior details parts from the Academy kits? Any corrections to look out for? > The Academy Tiger I is issued with interior details. The roadwheel > set looks incorrect. > > Has anyone kitbashed the Tamiya Tiger I (both the early as well as the > mid production versions) with the interior details parts from the > Academy kits? Any corrections to look out for? The wheels are fine, but the turret is a mess. It is symmetrical, when the real turret should bulge out on the left side, and Academy also places the cupola too far back and too close to the centerline. The Tamiya and Dragon kits both feature accurate turrets, and Dragon also includes the radiator and fan details inside the rear grills, gun breech and turret seats inside the turret, as well as a full set of photoetch and a metal barrel. The interior is very simplified in the Academy kit, and is based on a very early vehicle. Internal stowage changed considerably in late production models. All the kits feature tracks with solid center guide teeth. The AFV Club workable set released last spring has the correct hollow teeth, and is fairly inexpensive and easy to build (two parts per link). Gerald Owens >> The Academy Tiger I is issued with interior details. The roadwheel >> set looks incorrect. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >per link). >Gerald Owens From your reply would your recommendation be to stay with the Academy hull and running gear but use the Tamiya turret (plus Academy internal parts) updated with available data on internal details for both the hull and the turret? I have both the Tamiya and the Academy kits in my stash and don't want to spend any more money on aftermarket parts. > >> The Academy Tiger I is issued with interior details. The roadwheel > >> set looks incorrect. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > hull and the turret? I have both the Tamiya and the Academy kits in > my stash and don't want to spend any more money on aftermarket parts. That would be one way to go, yes, and the cheapest for you since you have both kits in hand. One small caveat--the earliest (1990) boxing of the Tamiya late and mid-production Tigers also had the incorrect, symmetrical turret shape. Reissues corrected this, but there is no indication on the box (rather than tout the improvement, apparently Tamiya preferred to pretend the error had never happened). Easy to tell--just test fit the two halves together. From above, the corrected turret bulges out noticeably on the left. Tamiya's early and initial Tiger kits always had the correct turrets. As for the hull, Academy also places the hull machine gun mount too high on the glacis plate. It's bottom edge should touch the slope plate. Not difficult to saw it off and reposition it. You may also want to swipe some of the better exterior detail parts from the Tamiya hull. Happy modeling! Gerald Owens >> >> The Academy Tiger I is issued with interior details. The roadwheel >> >> set looks incorrect. [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >Happy modeling! >Gerald Owens Thanks. I do have the latest Tamiya Tiger I (late production model) Two kits. Love those swap meets. |
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