after I created the Tiger I hull for Christian Ludwig, I was looking for a new project.
One day, when I was looking to ebay, I found a very interesting and, in my opinion, stupid version of a Tiger I tractor.
That one was a HL-lower hull with somewhat of a drivers cabin, an engine compartment in front and a cargo area in the back.
First I tried to ignore this one. But an idea grew in my grey cells.
Just thinking about creating a full tracked tractor on basis of a Tiger I tank to pull "something" really heavy. Instead of using several big half trucks.
How this tractor would may look like.
Here are the results.
Because I already created the new Tiger chassis, I wanted to use it. I just needed to modify it a little.
I know, there are several versions of different tanks using the engine mounted in front on top of the gear. But I thought, this would be difficult with the Tiger. So I came up with the following idea.
First I was thinking of a simple built and useful (not pretty) driver’s cabin.
To make it easy, I moved the whole engine compartment to the front, directly behind the gear. That makes it easy to transmit the power directly to the gear.
As you can see, I changed the exhaust system from the exhausts at the back to two exhaust exits at the side plates.
The rest of the chassis can be used as a cargo area for anything you need to go with the tractor.
These were my basic thoughts.
Than I started to create the details. It came out looking like this:
All missing elements can be taken from an HL-Tiger or from different suppliers.
This week, after I got the parts from Christian, I started to build the tractor. Here are the first pictures.
Report continues
Greetings
Birger
