I hope I'm posting this, my first attempt at picture posting, in the correct Forum location. And, I hope all will excuse the seemingly haphazard manner of posting as my own experience downloading to the Forum was a bit different from suggested picture posting guidelines.
The first picture purportedly shows an early Porsche-turreted Tiger II of Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 506 as it sits on a railroad car after the battalion was put on alert following the Allied landings in Operation Market Garden. The picture can be seen on p. 285 of Schneider's Tigers In Combat, Volume I.
What I found interesting about the tank was the Tiger I-style exhaust stacks and shrouds and the armored pot covering the telescoping motor deck air intake.
The other pictures show my relatively recently purchased Tiger build to similar configuration. I found the tank, which had received a number of high-end upgrades, on Ebay in Germany. Though it looked good, it had possibly been mishandled as it was damaged in a number of places. I shipped the wounded beast off to a modeler whose talents know no bounds, a chap named Gary Farrow, in Essex, UK who worked wonders on the model. The pictures really don't do justice to Gary's extensive re-fit of the tank.
A lot has been written about the tank in the original picture, some of which centered around the exhaust and shrouds and the armored intake vent. If the configuration of this tank is a topic of interest, I hope the collective brain-trust that resides at this site will chime in.
