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The late-model Tiger, represented by the Hachette Tiger Tank kit, had no storage boxes on the inside rear wall of the turret.

Late Tiger : turret rear wall

This photo shows the inside rear wall of a Late Tiger in a museum (the green paint is not original). The storage in this area consists of a cowling on the turret ring, with some boxes within it. The wall itself is bare; you can see a small hole where the rear lifting hook was welded in.

Early Tiger : storage boxes

The Hachette Tiger Tank provides molded-on boxes in this area. The designers probably copied these boxes from an Early-model Tiger, seen here. You could improve the kit's accuracy by removing these boxes.

 
 

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