how often would they do something like this...painted Tiger muzzlebrake

My guess would be never....Where did you find that picture?

just google images tiger muzzle brakes and it about 8 rows down and third from the end of that row

I've seen that picture. I have seen one other done differently. I found it at the site " tigers in focus". http://www.tiif.de/ They have so many tiger pix it would take a while to find it again.

That particular Tiger belonged to S.Pz.Abt 502 it’s a well-known picture from 1943 in Russia there are also a few other pictures of the same tank taken from different angles, as for other tanks having the same thing well I only know of this one so if there were others there would not have been to many certainly not full companies

Pretty neat Gregg, I've seen this somewhere before but have never seen any other German Panzers with such decoration.