Tiger in the desert Rye ;)
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 10:29 am
Hey Fellas 
With the test build of the Rye Fields Tiger I finished, I decided that I didn't want to leave it in just it's skin. So I dressed it up a bit and set it up with a small vignette base of a town road in Tunisia somewhere (I haven't decided yet).
I started by adding some stowage to hide the seamlines in the fiefel hoses. Then some camouflage netting (an old hairnet that I found) to hide the poorly moulded track cable, and a pair of figures to give it some life.
I added some spare tracks to the turret sides, and hung some helmets from them and from the frame for the turret bin.
One of the figures was really old and had a piss poor paint job on it, so I had to strip it back to plastic.
Out comes the Detol and toothbrush. A good 30 soak and some brushing, and a bit more soaking and done (Don't rinse with water... it's tempting but don't do it. It turns the Detol and disolved paint into a thick sticky gluelike stuff).
Then I added a tarp made from the foil seal off a package of pringles, and scratch built a wooden box to hold some wine and soup tins to put on the turret. I also added a few jerry cans to the stowage and strung some crew canteens from a piece of stretched sprue along the side of the turret.
Next is the final clean up of the figures (putty, seams and the like) and then paint.
With the test build of the Rye Fields Tiger I finished, I decided that I didn't want to leave it in just it's skin. So I dressed it up a bit and set it up with a small vignette base of a town road in Tunisia somewhere (I haven't decided yet).
I started by adding some stowage to hide the seamlines in the fiefel hoses. Then some camouflage netting (an old hairnet that I found) to hide the poorly moulded track cable, and a pair of figures to give it some life.
I added some spare tracks to the turret sides, and hung some helmets from them and from the frame for the turret bin.
One of the figures was really old and had a piss poor paint job on it, so I had to strip it back to plastic.
Out comes the Detol and toothbrush. A good 30 soak and some brushing, and a bit more soaking and done (Don't rinse with water... it's tempting but don't do it. It turns the Detol and disolved paint into a thick sticky gluelike stuff).
Then I added a tarp made from the foil seal off a package of pringles, and scratch built a wooden box to hold some wine and soup tins to put on the turret. I also added a few jerry cans to the stowage and strung some crew canteens from a piece of stretched sprue along the side of the turret.
Next is the final clean up of the figures (putty, seams and the like) and then paint.
