Dear Tankers,
I got my custom painted Matorro Kingtiger ( Henschel) just a few days ago from Awesome Hobbies Austrialia. I have honestly never seen a better looking tank in my life. It took over 2 months to build, paint, and accessorize and I was just shocked at all of the detail they put into it. This Kingtiger is painted to represent a typical Battle of the Bulge panzer. They added snow, slush, ice and lots of dirt and rust to make it very realistic. I aslo like the Zimmerit paste and 'battle damage' to the chassis and wheels. Thanks Awesome Hobbies Australia!
Here is a link to their website. I have dibbs on the customJagdtigerandJagdpanzer Elefant soplease do not buy!
www.awesomehobbies.com.au

Some picture of my tank:

The rust treatment is a bit overdone considering that any Tiger II used in the Ardennes Offensive was only a few months out of the factory.

Yea, Isuppose so......its still B.A. though!

BA?

looks more like a relic that has just been dug up after 70 years in the ground or a Transit van, Tiger II's used in the Ardennes offensive were not painted white

Looks great! Though they might be right (I don't care) it's what you like, and if your happy with it then don't let us tell you how it should be.

Duane

The important thing is that your happy with it mate, I'm sure you'll enjoy it no matter the comments. My Trumpeter 1/16th Porsche KT arrived yesterday so its gonna take me the best part of a year to build it and I hope I'm as happy when its done as you are. Nice one.

They have a Jagdtiger showing on there site me thinks its the Mato Jagdtiger all painted up .

Jimmy

Yep, the custom Jagdtiger is a Matorro Kingtiger with a new paint job. But you cant get it becase I called dibbs first. Its Bro-Code.

I have a book with infromation on a Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes '44) Kingtiger in it and it has almost exactly the same paint job on it. The book is titled Weapons of World War 2. I will post a picture of it, and the unit name.

this will be interesting, there were 2 Tiger abteilung in the Ardennes SS 501 attached to battle group Pieper and 506, neither used white and rust Tigers.

Post some of the pics.

Jim

It's an interesting vehicle. The brown blotches on the turret (like the turret top in front of the tank commander and down the turret sides), is that representing camouflage, rust/wear?

Mike.

Ummmmm, yea they used White paint (wouldnt you want white paint if you were in a snowy environment?) here's the pic: the caption to the left says " A Kingtiger with Henshel turret. 502nd Heavy Panzer Division, Ardenned, winter 1944-1945

I think it is awesome. Yes the rust is a little overdone but oh well. Out of all the people in the world that like tanks only a handful would ever realize that. You just met one

For me, the turnoff is the big gap at the front. It's kinda a hallmark for Matorro KT's. That has to go.

Otherwise, awesome tank. It looks like it could win a contest.

Perry

yea i know what you mean. the rust might have been a little overdone-but how many of us really know what the real thing was like??? As for the gap-these are the product pics, mine have no gap( fixed in the customization) thanks!!

my grandfather was lucky enough to live through the whole war and commanded a panzer 4 and from late 1944 to the end a Jagdtiger under Albert Ernst. so im really proud of him even though he didnt win.

Thing is 502 by this time was an SS Abteilung former SS102 who were not in the Ardennes offensive and the original 502 had become 511, as I said earlier there were only 2 Tiger Abteilung in the Ardennes, if you want to research this subject properly then here is a good start http://www.tiif.de/index.php?sid=75a...73a5cb01dc42c2 what you wont find is fictitious pictures and information like you have in your book.

You say your Grandfather served in a Jagdtiger Abteilung, which was it purely out of interest

Don't let them rain on your parade. Congratulations on a beautiful tank and most importantly, enjoy it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice tank, we like it. Looks like it had a really bad combat day.

Your interpretation of WWIiSchwerePanzerabteilung historyis suspect and perhaps your reference book is not so accurate: 16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945 are the stated dates for the Battle of the Bulge – Ardennes Offensive.

1. Reference Unit History; Schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 102 (later designated SS 502):http://www.ss-panzer.de/Geschichte/geschichte.html

<span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title="">&bull; The Wehrmacht reports on Oct 8, 1944 that SS</span><span style="" title="">502</span><span style="" title="">is destroyed on the invasion front (Soviet Union) and 227 tanks and 28 Pak are lost.
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&bull; The Wehrmacht reports thatSchwere SS-Panzerabteilung 102 (later designated SS 502)on March 6, 1945 took d</span><span title="">elivery of 31 Tiger II, their first KT tanks.

&bull; By wars end SS 502 was destroyed on the Eastern Front.
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2. Reference Unit History;(Wehrmacht) Schwere Panzerabteilung 502 (later designatedSchwerePanzerabteilung511 on Jan 5, 1945):Tigers in Combat, By W. Schneider. On December 17, 1944 this unit was training on King Tigers at Camp Senne.

&bull; Both sides, including the US Army Historians, USAOfficers and enlisted tankers and modern German Historians, Modern German Panzer Officers, Panzer officers from WWII, panzer crewmen of the era havedocumented the Battle of the Bulge in great detail over the last 65 years and virtually every KT tank that got to that fight or tried to get to that fight is accounted for.

&bull; And your KT could be the exception, but it would be a very long historical shot indeed.



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Wow. I have NO interest in researching any specific Abteilung, nor do I believe that the book has 'fictitious' illustrations . Each regiment had their own camo/paint pattern, and I find it highly unlikely that they didnt paint their tanks white, even if it wasnt official. As for the comment about my Grandfather, don't be such an ***** and enjoy the fact that I have a tank you dont, and a Grandfather you dont.

OverKill, sorry.And that big flag just would not have happened. Whats with the 2 months too build. the Matorros are not kits. Knot trying to bust your balls but as it was said above, the KT's that where in that offensive just where not that run down. They also where using the three color Ambush paint colors, with maybe a little white wash but mostly camo was done by hanging braches and tree limbs from them.

Thanks for all the people sticking up for me! The tank might not be totally accurate on the whit paint, but its still really cool. This is how I feel about the haters( except about my tank) : [youtube][/youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSuYp12y15c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSuYp12y15c

I think your perhaps a young person and a novice tank modeler and as they say on the best of the German National WWII Panzer Model web sites, this is not an innocent hobby.

The other half of modeling WWII armored vehicles is understanding their place in Western History.

&bull; Modeling a particular Allied or Axis unit is all part of the tank building hobby.

&bull; And you need to recognize what the 1940's meant to the world, plus the political evil of the times the Hitler flag represents.

&bull; For a toy tank, it all has heavy meaning.



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hmmmmm,
Your model is clearly made out of plastic. I would check your resources. 'Schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 102 (later designated SS 502): http://www.ss-panzer.de/Geschichte/geschichte.html' clearly states that no Panzers were made out of plastic. And that flag is obviously made out of a material that didn't exist back then.

Clearly.....your model is not a thoroughly researched museum piece that sits on a shelf and therefore does not deserve to exist.

Perry