Tiger Tank -Porsche version info please

I think you´d better search "Konigstiger Porsche Turret".

JR

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Real quick and dirty here.

When the proposal first went out, there were two manufacturers competing, Porsche, and Henschel. Henschel won out, and became the Tiger I that EVERYONE knows of. Porsche used the Henschel turrett on their design, tho they lost the competition........... This is what you are looking at. I'm not sure how many they made in this configuration.

All the remaining Porsche chassies became Elefant tank destroyers, somewhere around 90 of them.

I was noticing more the wheels, not so much the turret. The wheels look a lot different, that was the main reason I was interested in the kit. Craig

I think he is talking about the Porsche competitor for the original Tiger I, not the Tiger II (Kingtiger) fitted with the Porsche turret. The vehicle in question was essentially a Tiger I turret on an Elefant chassis.

Just to add to the info, the turret for both Tiger variants was actually designed by Krupp. A test batch of ten Tiger P tanks was ordered, to be followed by a production batch of 90. However, the tank project was canceled, and the 90 chassis were completed as Ferdinand (later Elefant) tank destroyers and issued to the 653rd and 654th Schwere Panzerjager Abteilung (which served together with a Brummbar battalion as the 656th Regiment at Kursk). After five months of combat, half the Ferdinands were lost, so the remaining vehicles were all rebuilt and reissued to the 653rd, while the 654th transitioned to the Jagdpanther. Five of the original Tiger P tanks were rebuilt as recovery tanks, and one other was completed as a command tank and issued to the 653rd Battalion in 1944. It was lost after a few months. Panzer Tracts has an excellent softcover book devoted to the Tiger P if you want to order it from their website. Gerald Owens

The best resource I have seen is "Panzerkampfwagen VI P (Sd.Kfz. 181) The History of the Porsche Type 100 and 101 also known as the LEOPARD and TIGER (P)" available from PANZER TRACTS by Thomas Jentz and Hilary Doyle, $19.95. 60 pages, lots of great photo's and drawings. Check them out at:

One was taken to Russia by s.Pz.Jg.Abt.653, used as a Panzerbefehlswagen VI P (Fgst.Nr.150013) in April 1944

were they using the crow feet antennas then?

I keep imagining a tank with a flat 6 powering it and a basic shape similar to a 911

Well, there is a drawing of another Tiger P with the star type ant. but the one used in Russia does not sport it, just two whip style mounted on the rear deck. This tank was numbered 003 and it also had additional frontal armor, zimmerit, and tracks with ice cleats, Maybach HL 120 engines etc etc etc

I also thought on that. In this case I think he might find something in any Tiger history book...

JR

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The box art appears to be of the only one ever known to be used in battle (although aren't there 4 other chassis not accounted for?). By