Tamiya 36204 - 1/16 King Tiger Henschel  [36204]

The 88mm cannon regarding Tiger we happened to be elongated from 56 to 71 caliber. This new L71 high velocity gun surely could place a 40/43type armor piercing shell through a 150mm thick armor dish whenever fired from 2000m away. The framework about the tank is covered in 150mm dense armor on front side and 80mm thick armor about the sides. The Henschel and Porsche companies developed rival turret prototypes. After a trial production of 50 tanks built with the Porsche turret, the Henschel turret, co-designed by the Krupp company, having its acutely thick armor that measured 180mm regarding front side and 80mm independently panels, ended up being adopted for mass-production. The Henschel turret itself ended up being revised mid-way through production, from a stepped gun mantle to a smooth one. This new tank was constructed with the motor mass produced for the Panther, the Maybach HL230-P30 Fuel motor. This engine ended up being effective at creating 700hp of production to really have the 69.8ton King Tiger at a 38km/h top cruising rate. Through summer time of 1944 till March of 1945, an entire of 440 King Tiger Heavy Tanks was in fact produced. King Tiger Heavy Tanks fought before end of World War II.