Tiger VK4501(P)

Are there any interesting color schemes for this vehicle?I know one of them made it to the eastern front as a command vehicle(turret # 003).

 

C'mon guys,somebody's got to know something.

 

the only reference i got is from the instructions from the italeri kit, and is just dark grey,sorry

 

Hello, difficult by seeing the photos of this vehicle to determine the colours of the camouflage.
It is in yellow sand-coloured with dark green or red brown, or still yellow sand-coloured with dark green and red brown.
Patrice.

 

Steeling this thread a little, due to the photos.

Gun ports. You hear of infantry storming a tank with grenades and attacking the crew, how? Isn't it supposed to be sealed?

However when you look at the bottom picture you see on the left a big hole like a port hole? Is that a gun port? were they closable from the inside? Looking at both pics as well, the top hatch has a dirty great big hole in it like a toilet seat, why?

So when a tank buttons up, just how sealed was it? were there still holes that could be fired through at point blank range? Was the top hatch solid and did it lock from the inside?

I presume modern tanks are fully sealed due to their NBC function, so this relates to WW2 stuff only.

FNG

 

Thanks for the pics.Can you make a guess as to the color of the turret numbers?

The pistol ports on some tanks had a plug that was suspended on a chain when the plug was not in use.It looks like the port on this Tiger is always open unless there is some type of hatch inside the vehicle.

 

Doesn't sound to safe, a plug on a chain?

FNG

 

Well, the port was plugged with a wedge-shaped chunk of metal (I do not know how/if it was secured), which could easily be pushed out to allow a pistol to be fired through the port, then pull on the chain and the plug it slotted back into the port.

Hmmm, no, sounds a bit hairy to me...

 

If i recall correctly, this kind of firing port was closed by a sliding plate that turned some 45º.