Help, Restoration Project on a first release FOV King Tiger

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:45 pm

Help Restoration Project of a first release FOV 1:16 King Tiger.
I might be getting the FOV 1:16 king tiger to repair
Price for FOV King Tiger $200. USD
Price to fix up and restore King Tiger: unknown
When restored: priceless

did the FOV king tiger come with an extra road wheel?

Yoxford wrote:Patrick,

First off it is the hard to find, first release, King Tiger!!!!…but it is quite beat up. Most of it can be fixed, and what is gone can be made better with 1/16 after market parts available from backyard armor. I did quite a few upgrades to mine so it’s not the end of the world and actually makes it a much more detailed. BUT they are expensive little buggers.

Big things that stand out are:
Missing the rear engine deck lid….I do not see it in the box so you will want to ask if it is in there. Also the hinge area is gone and so is the little retaining arm that holds the deck lid in the open position. These are parts you will need as I know of no after market replacement for them.

The rear escape door is missing the right side hinge, and also seems to be missing the hand hold. Left forward turret lift ring seems broken, and the loaders hatch is also missing its hand hold & missing its retaining arm (I see the arm in box and can be re-glued, it is the white curved thingy at the bottom of the parts pile) The retaining hooks for the spare track links on the turret are broken, (again metal upgrade parts are available.)

The misc. white parts are from inside the turret and seem to be from the main gun carriage. The Turret does release so you should be able to fix these. The coaxial MG is broken off and can be re-glued alongside the gun carriage.

The two parts next to the broken road wheel seem to be the rear mud flaps, should re-glue ok.

The road wheel is the rough one. I have no idea without up close shots of the tank suspension arm. That may be the hardest thing to fix. Worst case is you glue it on and it remains a frozen road wheel. Shrapnel took out the bearings.

chunks · Post by **chunks** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:58 pm

The 2nd release didn't have the extra roadwheel. What needs to be restored?

chunks · Post by **chunks** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:59 pm

Oops, sorry just read the quote, I hate it when I do that!!

There's a number of 1/16 armour e-tailers that might be able to help with some of that, just google 1/16 tank.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:28 pm

chunks wrote:The 2nd release didn't have the extra roadwheel. What needs to be restored?

this is the first release.
read what Yoxford wrote

I need detailed shots of the inside of the tank

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:29 pm

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:45 am

Are you fixing this for someone else or for yourself? For $200 that is a good deal. I think I paid $375 for my first and $350 for the second and had shipping on that to boot. The first was new and the second had one of the front bogies broken off and a few handles missing. Both off of e-bay.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:39 am

pickelhaube wrote:Are you fixing this for someone else or for yourself? For $200 that is a good deal. I think I paid $375 for my first and $350 for the second and had shipping on that to boot. The first was new and the second had one of the front bogies broken off and a few handles missing. Both off of e-bay.

I am buying it for my self, and I have it on layaway. But I am trying to find out what I needs to be fixed so it looks like new; I have contacted FOV for replacement parts and Yoxford supplied me with a great website Backyard Armor if fix the smaller parts. I also need to see what the inside looks like from a good tiger II tank so I can fix the parts that need to be fixed.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:51 pm

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:38 am

You will be happy and at $200 you can't go wrong.