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Offline Rickshaw

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Tigger Models - For those that like their models BIG
« on: June 01, 2014, 07:18:35 PM »
Tigger models, specialising in 1/32 and and 1/48 Vacuforms - http://tigger-models.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/welcome-to-tigger-models.html

Greg might like one of their P-3Cs in 1/48.  ;)

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Re: Tigger Models - For those that like their models BIG
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2014, 01:47:40 AM »
It is tempting...
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Re: Tigger Models - For those that like their models BIG
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2014, 07:13:13 AM »
It is tempting...
Some of those kits are absolutely amazing due to their size and the structural issues that need to be addressed when building the thing so it will not collapse under the weight of the completed kit. 

Vacu-Form kits are still something I try to avoid at all costs.  I remember all too well trying to build the vacu-form parts for the bomb on a balsa and paper model of the Ju-87 Stuka in some large scale when I was very young.  Probably my first ever encounter with vacu-forum products and it ended miserably for me with the bomb not having sufficient material to successfully glue the halves together.  I guess I was traumatized by that experience and have avoided any major vacu-form kit ever since. 
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Re: Tigger Models - For those that like their models BIG
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2014, 12:12:24 AM »
There's a world of difference between the vac parts in a Guillows balsa kit and those
from Dynavector, Falcon, Aeroclub etc.

However the old ID Models stuff Tigger is flogging are closer to that old Stuka bomb.  ;D



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Re: Tigger Models - For those that like their models BIG
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2014, 09:25:23 AM »
It is tempting...
Some of those kits are absolutely amazing due to their size and the structural issues that need to be addressed when building the thing so it will not collapse under the weight of the completed kit. 

Vacu-Form kits are still something I try to avoid at all costs.  I remember all too well trying to build the vacu-form parts for the bomb on a balsa and paper model of the Ju-87 Stuka in some large scale when I was very young.  Probably my first ever encounter with vacu-forum products and it ended miserably for me with the bomb not having sufficient material to successfully glue the halves together.  I guess I was traumatized by that experience and have avoided any major vacu-form kit ever since.

I am sure your skills have improved considerably since then.  As JCF as suggested, the newer vacuforms are also considerably improved.  Just read the instructions and look at a few websites on how-to do vacuforms and then just dive in.  I found them surprisingly easy actually when I tried a few.

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Re: Tigger Models - For those that like their models BIG
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2017, 12:47:16 AM »
Just saw this latest list of Tigger kits on Facebook:

Currently available all 1/32
01 BAe Jaguar GR1 £27.50
02 Saab J-29 Tunan (straight wing) £25.00
03 Fiat G-91 R3 £27.50
04 Yak -3 £17.50
05 Handley Page Hampden £35.00
06 Grumman S-2 Tracker £40.00
07 Lockheed Hudson £35.00
08 F-89 Scorpion £35.00
09 F-2h Banshee £27.50
10 Gloucester Meteor F-8 £27.50
11 Westland Wyvern £27.50
12 XFY-1 Pogo £27.50
13 F-94c Starfire conversion for Czech T-33 £17.50
14 Sea Harrier FRS1 conversion for Revell Harrier GR1 £9.50
15 Harrier T4 conversion for Revell Harrier Gr1 £12.50
16 Aero L-39 Albatros £25.00
17 P-82 Twin Mustang £35.00
18 KI-45 £30.00
19 F-84 Thunderjet £25.00
20 F-7U Cutlass £35.00
21 Shorts Sunderland Special order £85.00
22 Catalina Special order £85.00
23 E-2 Hawkeye Special order £55.00
24 Halifax Special order £85.00
25 Dornier Do-335 £35.00
26 Lancaster Special order £85.00
27 B-17 Special order £85.00
28 Grumman Tracer £50.00
29 KI-46 Dina £30.00
30 Lockheed Super constellation Special order £85.00
31 F-86 d conversion £20.00
32 Stirling Special order £85.00
33 B-29 Special order £85.00
34 Fj fury conversion £20.00
35 Skyraider £30.00
36 T-2 Buckeye £25.00
37 SM-79 £35.00
38 Canberra £50.00
39 Grumman Cougar £25.00
40 A-26 Invader £50.00
41 Do-217 £50.00
42 Do-217 NI £50.00
43 Arado 234b Special order £50.00
44 B-24 Liberator Special order £85.00
45 Douglas Skynight £35.00
46 He 219 £45.00
47 Ta-154 £35.00
48 Jet Provost T4 £30.00
49 Jet Provost T5/ Strikemaster £30.00
50 RF-8 fuselage conversion £15.00
51 Gloucester Gladiator £30.00
52 Fokker DXXI £27.50
53 De Havilland Vampire £27.50
54 Bristol Beaufort £35.00
55 De Havilland Chipmunk £25.00
56 Hawker Hart £30.00
57 Defiant £30.00
58 Wesltand Whirlwind (WWII prop) £30.00
59 ME 263 £20.00
60 Tigercat £35.00
61 TA-7 Corsair Fuselage and canopy £22.50
62 F-11 Tiger

1/48
P-3 Orion £55.00 Special order
B-52 £75 Special order
B-47 £45 Special order
B-57 wings £22.50
coming very soon
Gannet
Do-17

In development
Antonov AN-2

1/12
Me 262
 

Work in progress ::

I am giving up listing them. They all end up on the shelf of procrastination anyways.

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