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The Rye Field Model Tiger kit has a hatch on the cupola that can be built open or closed. When it is built open, there are three handles to attach to the inner face.

Cupola handles of Rye Field Model 5001

All three of the handles, as you can see here, are represented as the part D8.

Cupola handles built on Rye Field Model 5001

As the photo shows, the handles are not symmetric; they have a latching tab that is turned to one side.

Cupola handles of real Tiger

But, as this photo of a real Tiger demonstrates, the three handles were not the same. One of them was the mirror of the other two. The Rye Field kit, strictly speaking, provides only one of the three handles that you see here.

 
 

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