I've been a bit jaded with building aircraft of late so I've decided to spend a bit of time in the dark side, because apparently they have cake.
This is what I've been working on over the past few weeks - Tamiya's 1/35 Tiger I.
This is basically the first 'big' 1/35 tank I've worked on, and only about my 5th 1/35 kit I played around with. I have built a few pieces of small scale armour over the years as you know, but to date I've only ever finished one 1/35 kit and that was this one back around 2017.
I'm really hoping this will be finish number two, as 1/35 is a scale I'm been meaning to get into for years. I'm really sure why a Tiger, I'm not overly into German tanks although I admit they did have some pretty cool looking AFV's in WWII. But I guess the Tiger has this 'Mystique' about it, and I would like to see just how big one actually was compared to some of it's competition - so I also have a Sherman in the stash!
The build is progressing okay, I'm still finding my feet building process wise. I've assembled all the road wheels.
And I've been building up the hull. To complicate matters I've been adding Tamiya's sticky-back Zimmeritt, which has made the process take longer. I've also ordered the PE mesh set for the engine deck.
I've picked up a couple of German AFV paint sets and am aiming to do this scheme...
I've reached a bit of an impasse now and was hoping for some advice - do you guys normally glue the road wheels and pioneer (etc.) equipment into place now, before paint, or do you leave it off until after?
Cheers!
That will be a good looking beast when finished; as for the running gear, I've only done three tanks so far but I paint the wheels separately and attach them later in the build. Some folks don't and have great success too, so it's kinda up to the builder, I guess. It'll work either way! You have or will discover a little secret about armour models; mistakes and "ouchies" that would really mar an airplane model can easily be covered with mud, stowage or foliage on armor. 
) , as I'm really just using it to get into the Zone, as it were. So I might well do as you suggest and leave the wheels and tracks off, but add the rest. I am probably going to break the airbrush out (don't faint) for the base dark yellow colour, (over black primer) and then maybe brush on the brown red - it's all a learning curve 
