Tale of Three Tigers
Since I’m not adding the side skirts , I need to add the strips that the skirts attach to , as seen on the lower edge of Bovinton’s Tiger II . I used .05 mm strip and just eye balled the size and placement by holding the skirt piece along the edge of the hull and marking it out with a pencil . I then cut many , many small strips and glued a dozen of roughly the same size on either side of the hull .
I’m not going for scale effect in a 28mm kit , just a representation of the part . If I was building this in say 1/35 I’ld probably go all scale photo etch and tiny resin bolts , but this is just a fun build . Looking through some Tiger II pictures , I noticed quite a few in Normandy have the C hooks mounted on the U shackles for a quick cable hook up to either tow broken down vehicles or to be towed themselves , so I sanded the mounting brackets from one C hook and hung it on a U shackle . I made the empty C hook mount out of plastic strip . Not too happy with it yet , would rather make it out of wire but the mount is flat and wire is round , still working on that one .
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