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has anyone got a pic showing the top of a porsche KT turret? want to find out the positions of the sockets on the top for the crane legs and the gas detector mounts. if anyone has a blueprint or knows of a link that would be cool.
jeff

also does any one know what it was for? never seen a KT with one rigged. loading shells?
jeff

The three sockets on the Porsche Kingtiger turet are one on the loaders hatch side roughtly centre of the hatch , the other two are cupola side front ones in the centre of the front armour plate section the rears just of centre of the rear armour plate closer to the cupola all mounted just inside the weld seam. I thought they were to mount a crane for maintenance . Im usure if the Porsche Kingtiger had the gas detector mounts I will look in my book to mate . Do you mean like the ones on the Pz.IV .

Andy

thought they were gas detectors, the raised plates either side at the rear of the turret. thought the s mine launcher wasbehind the loaders hatch. may be wrong though, i frequently am. not sure about the ones on the PzIV .
jeff

Hi yes you are correct there was two at the rear of the turret and one on the mantlet . But Ive only seen this on the Henschel Kingtiger not the Porsche version .

Andy

The Henschel turreted Kingtiger production started Jan 44 . The gas detector mounts were fitted from July 44 so unless older Porsche turrets had them added I would say that only Henschel ones had the gas detector mounts ? But anythings possible .

Andy

cheers guys, as i'm doing my porsche KT as a what if that somehow survived to fight in the streets of berlin, just to be different. i might add them. got the chance to have a play with even more weathering as well. where was the one one the mantlet little tank man?
jeff

also thinking about fitting vampyre( is that spelt right?) if i'm going to do a what if i might as well go the whole hog, if i can find some decent drawings or plans so i can get sizes.
jeff

Hi Jeff . My book only shows them on the Henschel Kingtiger . On that version its mounted on the rings on the mantlet were iy joins the front armour plate of the turret . The Porsche matlets diferent . So not realy sure were to sugest you could put it , sorry.

Andy

Eastern Fronts turret is the Henschel version those two small squares to the rear of the turret (on the left in the picture ) are the gas detectot mounts .

Andy