The Little World

I was fortunate to discover a net image of one of the exact Tiger II’s on the colour call-out and decal sheet from italeri. It was a large, clear image of the plane taxiing out to participate in some form of range day.

The tanks and missiles of the kit were close enough to the real thing and it was a challenge to get the bright Day-glo orange finish. The kit geometry as far as pylons, tanks, doors and gear struts proved to be darn near perfect with very little fettling needed.

The plastic pitot went – a casual brush against it and it was away. Silly thing to do – Italeri could have avoided that ring guard and just made a glue-on piece in the first place – I drilled it out and fitted a brass one.

For the YouTube enthusiast I thoroughly recommend watching live-firing demonstrations done by the Swiss on their Axalp flying days. They seem to be world experts at flying sideways through canyons and then straight at mountains – whereupon they do an up and over trick that is better than any airshow. Very economical with the ammo too – short bursts at targets erected on the side of mountains.

This would make a very good model set on a highway emergency strip.