Tiger I-One Tough Cat

[cyberia]

Here ya go LAH...

...another faceless Tiger I

[Pirate-Drakk]

Originally Posted by cyberia

Here ya go LAH...

...another faceless Tiger I

Looks like that one just rolled off the train car. Narrow tracks and no mud guards on the sides. Even the front mud guards are flipped up. Bags on the guns and unarmed soldier looking guys along for the ride. Looks pretty peaceful...

[cyberia]

Originally Posted by Pirate-Drakk

Looks like that one just rolled off the train car. Narrow tracks and no mud guards on the sides. Even the front mud guards are flipped up. Bags on the guns and unarmed soldier looking guys along for the ride. Looks pretty peaceful...

You might very well be right Old Friend. That looks like a railyard type tower in the background.

[LAH 1 SS]

You guys are more than likely right about the location. I love the look of the tiger 1 with transport tracks on, they look so clean and business like. They dont look overly large or imposing. Now the tigr itself is a very clean example of a late version tiger 1 the chassis is definately a chassis produced after January 44, as the shovel has been removed from then front glacis plate and the tow shackle area has the side extensions cut away to take the larger tiger two tow shackles that were being used at the time. the rear idler is the larger 700mm type idler, so this is not a final production tiger . The turret could be a turret of either of the last three turret versions produced from between March 44 and May 44. the monocular gunsight mantlet was seen on the tiger after April 44 so this gives us a rough production date of the turret. Lastly, the tiger's number is A12 so this vehicle belongs to the Grossdeuschlan regiment after January 44. I have another veiw of this vehicle and they are actually reversing the vehicle to be in place for the fitment of the larger battle tracks. My scanner is not working so i can't scan and post it for you guys sorry

[cyberia]

Another from the land of caption-less Tiger...

[LAH 1 SS]

A nice mid production tiger 1 with thr front road wheel removed as ssen on tiger's in Russia the tiger number is 223 of the 501 s SS Pzab im guessing around February 44. It's interesting to note the tiger has the tow cables insitu on the tow shackles. This was a practice often used by the tiger crew's to make the recovery process abit easier during the heat of battle

[cyberia]

Originally Posted by LAH 1 SS

A nice mid production tiger 1 with thr front road wheel removed as ssen on tiger's in Russia the tiger number is 223 of the 501 s SS Pzab im guessing around February 44. It's interesting to note the tiger has the tow cables insitu on the tow shackles. This was a practice often used by the tiger crew's to make the recovery process abit easier during the heat of battle

LAH, I'm curious. Why were the front road wheels removed?

[McCoy]

To avoid mud buildup with the result of throwin' the tracks.

[Kurttis Thomas]

LAh it's amazing how you know all this it really is.

[LAH 1 SS]

Mccoy is dead on the money. The mud used to build up between the road wheel's etc and when not in use used to freeze and become solid. Hence when the road wheel's would go to move, the drive sprocket would pull on the track and seeing as it could not move the track would snap resulting in as Mccoy said a thrown track