James,

I understand your comment, and admit that I didn't know that the late tiger and KT shared the same hatch. At this point, I'd pretty much take any hatch, plastic or metal as long as it had the inside detail of the latch and is accurate for the KT. I mentioned the metal hatch because I had seen them previously on Willy Loewer's website. I asked him about it during a recent conversation and he told me it's been discontinued from his website due to supply issues. As for the intended use, I'm going to use it on a King Tiger. I've never seen anyone offer too many parts for a late model Tiger other than BYA, and they're usually out of stock and ship sometime between a long time and never. Besides, they don't offer one of these.

Dugster,

Thanks for the help, but I'm looking for the small rectangular hatch on top of the turret roof that was for the loader, and the pic you posted is of the rear escape hatch. Our Tiger 1s have a very similar loader's hatch installed (that for some reason, Tamiya made operable on the T1, and not the KT), but the KT has one that is a little different (unfortunately for me, or I'd already have ordered that sprue) from the T1. Thanks for looking for me!