1/16 King Tiger...done

[takevin]

I finished this up awhile ago, other then the electronics I'm trying work it out lol. This started as a Heng Long tank as seen by the first few pictures. The guts ie motor and crap gearing were replaced with some very robust heavy duty motors and gearing. I added a 8 channel radio along with a controller/sound unit that sounds just like the real deal with two speakers. It's quite loud when turned up and has dynamic control just like a real tank would move and stop. I applied zimmerit to the body, added a bunch of detail pieces, finalized by various weathering: salt technique, dry and wet washes, charcoal and textured spray paint. This was done as working model when I scratch build a 1/4 scale King Tiger down the road.

 

[IEDBOUNTYHUNTER]

Sweet. Came out great.

 

[RickDTM]

I dig it! Sweet work!

 

[Wes R]

Man that's a massive improvement over the stock tank. I looked into RC tanks before but I knew i'd get myself into trouble chasing the pets with it lol.

 

[Sigma-LS]

How did you get the zimmerit texture? Not something I've seen done by many folks, but then I don't get to look at military scale stuff too much.

 

[takevin]

I bought green putty and used a rc enginr gear mounted on a metal rod. You want to small sections at a time. I trowled on the zimmerit first with a piece of plastic and then rolled with the gear leaving a slight space going up and down. I did some practice first on a piece of plastic before I applied it to the tank. The one pic above shows the tank partly covered in the green putty. Practice first because there is a learning curve to it. A lotof people can be intimidated by it but I found it be pretty easy with a little work.

 

[zorg]

ooooooooh whats the big tank in the backround in the 3rd pic down????

abrams?


-z

 

[Too Much Garlic]

That's a massive transformation from a cheap looking finish to a damn near perfect look. WOW. Impressive improvement.

 

[takevin]

Thank you. Yes Zorg ts the 21 century 1/9 scale rc abrams tank. Currently its gutted and being rebuilt from the ground up. Same control/sound sytem, 8 ch radio, new motors and gears and reworking and beefing up wheel mounts and lower body too. It will be fully detailed also. Hope to have it done this summer. Also I redid a 1/6 stuart tank from the ground up. I have a post with pics on here, just do a search on here and you'll see it.

 

[Ray22]

Wow it originally looked like a toy with that horrid paint job, but man this looks like a museum model after you gave it the Pimp my ride treatment Lol, beautiful job! thumbsup.

 

[zorg]

Thank you. Yes Zorg ts the 21 century 1/9 scale rc abrams tank. Currently its gutted and being rebuilt from the ground up. Same control/sound sytem, 8 ch radio, new motors and gears and reworking and beefing up wheel mounts and lower body too. It will be fully detailed also. Hope to have it done this summer. Also I redid a 1/6 stuart tank from the ground up. I have a post with pics on here, just do a search on here and you'll see it.

thanks for the info, it should be huuuuuuuge when finished

well done on rescuing the king tiger btw

-z

 

[takevin]

Thank you one and all :thumbsup

 

[Ruddigger]

Really nice detail on that tank. It's nice to see something that's not s starship!

 

[takevin]

Yea lol. Although thats my next project.

 

[KNIGHT]

Great job on the zimmerit. Not an easy thing to do and to get it right.

 

[Strode]

awesome

 

[takevin]

Thank you. It all came together at the end well.

 

[yuumi2891103]

Very impressive detailing and weathering.
Awesome work!!

 

[metal wood]

sweet looking KT, was wondering if you painted the officer knowing a specific division or rank?

 

[Nwerke]

Really nice.

Gotta ask though, is that figure bigger than 1/16? If that's an MG34 on his cupola it seems kinda small.