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By the time the Late Tiger was introduced, i.e. the Tiger represented in Hachette's kit, storage within the turret had mostly been removed from the walls and placed on the turret ring.

Rear turret ring storage

At the rear, behind the gun, a sheet-metal containing wall was built on the turret ring. Inside this were compartments for spare vision blocks, headphones, and other things. This is a Late Tiger at Saumur museum; the green paint is not original. At the left of the photo you can see the supporting strip for the MP40 machine pistol. 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.

Side turret ring storage

A similar sheet-metal container was fixed on the right-hand side of the turret. Here, you can see that it ends just forward of the escape hatch. There was room for loose storage in this, but also a headphones container.

Side turret ring storage

This is the forward end of the same container. It ends at the trestle and covers the turret rotation lock. Since the trestle is missing from Hachette's kit, the kit's storage container extends too far.

Forward turret ring storage

This is the forward right-hand corner of the turret. As you can see, ahead of the trestle there is an open container made of sheet metal and attached to the floor. Hachette's kit provides a different box, fixed to the wall, but the real wall is bare here.

You could improve the Hachette Tiger by rebuilding the right-hand storage container, removing boxes from the walls, and adding the ones that are apparently not provided in the kit.

 
 

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