Full human size yes? 
On with the Tiger tank, initial production, Tunisia. This shot shows a measure of the technical achievement of the design and it’s strategic weakness. It was so complex, sucked up industrial capacity and capability along with scarce resource. Can you imagine if they had designed a simple tank with sloped armour and had five thousand available by 1940. Luckily for us they wasted inordinate effort on complex tanks, tactically good, but always defeatable.
The interleaved road wheels allowed for larger wheels and the number, over forty, have an unbeatable track pressure. Steel wheels, initially Clad in rubber, hybrid electric drive.
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A bit more progress, fitted an engine bay that I bought and nearly as complete as it needs to be for painting now.
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Takes me back to childhood and making the little yellow coloured Airfix model of the same tank. All those wheels!
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Me too - had the Panther which has a similar multi-wheel suspension
You have certainly followed one of the less obvious career trajectories, Dave!
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Well I was not a model maker per se but I would have designed it. (Brown field)
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That looks like the sort of thing that Gerry Anderson used to blow up with great relish in episodes of Thunderbirds and, because of that, it’s cool at fuck.
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Looking good there Bob…reminds me of Tiger 131 at Bovington, it’s a beast up close and personal.
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It’s a tank from the same battalion, some minor differences that get the Tiger tank fans excited, but essentially the same. 131 is the only running original, captured in Tunisia by the British and studied in some detail when it was shipped back in the UK .
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Brilliant
That is great. Very careful work.
Now throw it through some gorse and it will have a more authentic weathering
Oil paint strains applied and that’s pretty much it until it’s set in scene and pigments are applied. On with the crew, engine and workshop now.
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Looks great Bob 
Can you get tiny, tiny gorse for that ?
VB