Border Models 72nd scale Tiger I Very Early Manufacturing Kind (502nd Weighty Tank Battalion Deny. 100)

When the primary manufacturing Tigers rolled out of the Henschel manufacturing facility, they have been despatched to the learning gardens at Fallingbostel to equip the 502nd Weighty Tank Battalion. The 502nd Weighty Tank Battalion used to be the primary operational Heer Tiger tank unit, it used to be now not till the spring of 1943 that the 2d corporate of the battalion used to be shaped. Despite the fact that their tanks have been nonetheless unproven & now not as decent as they might have favored to start with, they have been despatched to the entrance sequence to give a boost to the siege of Leningrad later most effective days of checking out. 

A Tiger I big tank of the captured 502nd tank “100” at Gorky Terrain in 1943 

9 Tigers have been despatched to the 502nd, foundation its 1st corporate, sooner than occasions in Africa diverted pristine Tiger manufacturing to that theater. The 502nd fought in jungles and swamps south of Leningrad and completed most effective restricted good fortune. Technical issues of the tanks led to as a lot hassle because the ground, and so the extra decent Tigers, significantly “111”, got the most efficient elements.

Tiger of the 502nd Weighty Panzer Battalion similar Leningrad, circa 1942

On 18 January 1943 a leap forward by way of the Soviets price 5 Tigers, together with numbers “121” and “100” which have been captured intact. Best 2 of the latest 9 Tigers remained in February, after they have been joined by way of 3 pristine ones.