Tiger Tank - Panzermuseum Munster

[Koppi]

A report about the Tiger tank and the new model in the Panzermuseum Munster, Germany. Report in german and english.

https://thrifles.blogspot.de/2017/09/der-tigerpanzer-panzermuseum-munster.html

[Belisarius]

Wow ! She's a beauty , lovely restoration work.  Please post more tank pics please .

[Michi]

Very cool - an excellent fibre-glass mock-up! Why not? Not less impressive than the prototype...

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Thank-you for posting and thank you for the blog article - very informative.

[Ballardian]

 An interesting exhibition, certainly worth a visit. Pretty impressive model making in its own right (though by the time you reach 1:1 scale has it stopped being modelling & become engineering?) - given the scarcity of the originals, a good reproduction is fine.
 Your comments about the usefulness of the heavy tank concept were just as interesting, thanks for sharing them

[Vanvlak]

Ditto - thanks for posting, and for the extensive write up.
The comparison of numbers available (due to cost, complexity and reliability) is interesting. I'd personally have wagered on Stug IIIs, but then I am biased as I have a soft spot for low, turret-less tanks, and the Stug III family is my favourite.

Still, this mock up is an impressive bit of work. 

[Harry Faversham]

Did late production Tigers have Feifel air cleaners? 

[Etranger]

Did late production Tigers have Feifel air cleaners?  

A rivet counter writes: No. Not fitted after October1943 http://tiger1.info/EN/Feifel-air-precleaners.html They wouldn't be seen on a late vehicle with zimmerit and the late pattern steel wheels. (Zimmerit alone maybe) Here's one time line of changes http://www.alanhamby.com/changes.shtml