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In early October 1942, plans for production of the VK
45.03 were reviewed,Initially two designs were provided, one by Henschel and
one by Porsche. Both used a turret design from Krupp; the main differences were
in the hull design, transmission and suspension.
The Henschel version used a conventional hull design with
sloped armor resembling the layout of the Panther tank. It had a rear mounted
engine and used nine overlapping road wheels per side, mounted on transverse
torsion bars, in a similar manner to the original Tiger. To simplify
maintenance, however, the wheels were overlapping rather than interleaved as in
the Tiger
Henschel won the contract, and all Tiger IIs were
produced by the firm. Two turret designs were used in production vehicles. The
initial design is sometimes misleadingly called the "Porsche turret"
due to the belief that it was designed by Porsche for their prototype. In fact
this turret was simply the initial Krupp design for both prototypes. This
turret had a rounded front and steeply sloped sides, with a
difficult-to-manufacture curved bulge on the turret's left side, to accommodate
the commander's cupola. Fifty early turrets were mounted to Henschel's hull and
used in action. The more common "production" turret, sometimes called
the "Henschel" turret, was simplified with a flat face, no shot trap
(created by the curved face of the initial-type turret), less-steeply sloped
sides, and no bulge for the commander's cupola.
The track system used on the Tiger II chassis was a unique
one, which used alternating "contact shoe" and "connector"
links—the contact shoe link had a pair of transverse metal bars that contacted
the ground, while the connector links had no contact with the ground.
The Tiger II was developed late in the war and made in relatively small numbers. Like all German tanks, it had a gasoline engine. However, this same engine powered the much lighter Panther and Tiger I tanks. The Tiger II was under-powered, like many other heavy tanks of World War II, and consumed a lot of fuel which was already in short supply.
Item No
84533
Item Name
Pz.Kpfw.VI Sd.Kfz.182 Tiger II (Henschel
July-1945 Production)
Bar Code
6939319245335
Scale
1:35
Item Type
Plastic Model Armor Kit
Model
Dimension
Length: 289.9mm Width: 107.3mm
Total Plastic
Parts
580+
Total Sprues
25 sprues , turret , lower hull and upper
hull
Chromeplate
Parts
n/a
Resin Parts
n/a
Metal Parts
gun barrel
Photo Etched
Parts
1 piece
Film
Accessory
n/a
Released Date
2018-05
More Features
The kit consists of over 580 parts
>the kit w/refined detail
>multi-slide moulded lower hull , turret
>individual tracks
>photo etched parts included