The impressive regenerative steering final drive gearbox in the Henschel prototype gave the best manoeuvrability of any large tank in existence and the production order was awarded to the Henschel company. Production commenced under the service designation Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf E, SdKfz 181. Soon it simply became known as the Tiger, both by the troops privileged to crew it and by those unfortunate enough to face it in battle.
Probably best known for its involvement in Normandy particularly with SSsPzAbt 101 the Late production Tigers are most easily identified as the rubber rimmed road wheels were replaced with steel road wheels. the gun travel lock was discontinued and the gun sight was changed from a binocular TZF9b to a monocular TZF9c Very late production Tigers had steel disc type wheels with resilient internal rubber spring rims of the type fitted to the Tiger II. In these Tigers, the outside run of wheels was omitted, reducing both the icing-up problem and the overheating problem of the axle bearing.

The Model

Your Tiger model is supplied as a fully machined kit that comes complete with every single component required to assemble a fine finished model. Your kit will be delivered in a single consignment.

Although your kit delivery is completed in a single consignment it is divided into six stages for ease of construction and to provide a logical build sequence.

• Resilient road wheels
Reduced diameter idler
Smaller muzzle brake
Fabricated turret
Increased turret
roof thickness
Modified lower hull plates
Turret ring bullet guard
The model also
features the following detail enhancements
Multi piece sprockets, with separate teeth and locking tabs
Bolt on wheel hubs

• Wheel bolt locking tabs
• Pre loaded road wheel bearings
• Square head deck bolts
• Conical barrel ring and sprocket hub bolts
• Hull side square stand off for mud guards
• Cross drilled and split pinned track pins
• New pressure die cast tracks
• and over 100 other detailed improvements!!....