A small update

 Ages ago Greg bought two separate PSC kits for his German forces. These included Halftracks and Tiger tanks. He was not inspired to build them seeing all the parts and options. Being a bro, I figured I could do them for him - at that particular time, he didn't seem to have much in the way of variety for his army - and wanted to help hasten this myself.

I went ahead and built them. Two boxes each of 4 or 5 vehicles. Putting the Tiger tanks together was fine, except I fucked the tracks up big time one in particular. I can't remember why exactly, but warm water helped warping or something and it basically fucked the tracks up. I managed to source a single sprue to replace the one I fucked and finished his kits for him, however, I was now left with a single incomplete Tiger tank in 15mm scale.

Naturally this gave me the idea to convert it to an objective marker, rather than waste it and throw it out. I placed some filler on a base and roughly molded it to how I thought the tank should sit. Originally I thought that perhaps a Typhoon strafed it with its rockets and crippled its tracks on one side - this meant I could use one set of broken tracks and not have it sat on its running wheels - which would look daft. Anyway, I figured the earth raised up beneath it, bogging it, exposing its side to a bigger gun - probably a 17 Pounder - which destroyed the side / running wheels and the other set of tracks. I did this the same way I used on the knocked out Sherman tank a long time back.

I also tried to apply a smoke dry brush to look like it burned out internally, which I don't think is as visible as is on the Sherman due to camouflage and the wash and lacquer spray, but it's fine and it's obvious it is destroyed and does the job. The base was also painted White to show it's an objective.

In my excitement to finish it, I had forgot to add any decals for extra detail, but it's ok. I also purposefully left any grass off the base as I imagined the earth spilling over from the rocket attack buried the grass underneath it. Once it was done, I am considering adding a bit just to give something bright to contrast with the dark tank and mud. But I will see.

Until next time.