Scale: 1 / 16
Hachette Partworks Ltd. is publishing "Tiger Tank", a UK magazine that includes parts to build a 1/16 scale model of the Tiger. The magazine itself assembles into a reference work about the Tiger and tank history. The material is also published in other countries and languages.
The kit is molded in plastic. An interior is included.
This model kit could be made more realistic, or assembled more easily, by attention to these points:
- Hachette Tiger : elevation gear for the gun
- Hachette Tiger : loader's periscope
- Hachette Tiger : grenade launcher
- Hachette Tiger : turret ring
- Hachette Tiger : loader's hatch
- Hachette Tiger : side plates
- Hachette Tiger : breech of the gun
- Hachette Tiger : turret storage boxes
- Hachette Tiger : breech lever
- Hachette Tiger : turret driveshaft
- Hachette Tiger : recoil cylinders
- Hachette Tiger : recoil guard
- Hachette Tiger : turret rotation lock
- Hachette Tiger : cradle for the gun
- Hachette Tiger : front ammunition bin
- Hachette Tiger : engine heater port
- Hachette Tiger : rear mudguard attachments
- Hachette Tiger : colours for the interior
- Hachette Tiger : MP40 stowed in turret
- Hachette Tiger : what timeframe does it represent
- Hachette Tiger : steering wheel
- Hachette Tiger : cooling fans
- Hachette Tiger : counterbalance for the gun
- Hachette Tiger : turret floor gearbox
- Hachette Tiger : pistol port
- Hachette Tiger : Trestle on turret ring
- Hachette Tiger : bolt heads for the gun travel lock
- Hachette Tiger : storage on turret floor
- Hachette Tiger : air intake at front of engine hatch
- Hachette Tiger : turret crossbar
- Hachette Tiger : turret vision ports
