does this exist somewhere?? I would love to put a Elefant upper hull on one of my Tigers.. Is there a kit available somewhere or parts from a kit that would work??


thanks [8D]

In a word NO

Not just the upper hull. Although I'm not a big tiger fan, from what I see, there are some differences in the suspension as well.

There was once this resin kit that would work on a King Tiger chassis, but it's been awhile and I really don't remember if the guy still offers them. I heard the material was a little brittle and hard to assemble and it leaves you with a Elefant look a like.

HTH


- Jeff

exactly right. an elefant upper with a KT lower leaves you with a decent running Elefant upper with a KT lower. Tracks, suspension, and wheels are completely different.

A King Telefant would go great with the Pantiger though.

a few fabricants are suppose to bring out these kits, no one now exactly where and wich fabrikant does the thrill.
on all sites they speculate but one thing is shore HL brings out the Jagdtiger this is advertised on a chinese site with foto etc ...

Shaun, the guy who made the Elefant conversion kit Using the Tiger II chassis used plaster not resin this is the reason why the parts where very brital he uses the same material on all his figures, the kit was based on castings taken from an Imai kit

That was it, plaster not resin. I've seen the finished project up close and it looked pretty good for what it was.


- Jeff

The elephant was used on the Porche Tiger chassis. So unless you can find one of these there is no way to make an even close too accurate model.<div> The VK 45.01 (P) chassis would be the one too use. Although I believe they lengthened the chassis and added one road wheel. But I am not 100% sure of this fact.</div>

would be an immense thrill to made the tiger chassis VK 45.01 and add the elefant suspension to it i have seen a elefant metal suspension but i can't remember wer but on that site there were kits from juckenburg 1/16 to

here is a link to a porscheJagdtigerkit in 1/16

also Juckenburg 1/16

IT'S FROM ASIATAM THE PORSCHE fERDINANT SUSPENSION

a few more foto's

Shaun I know personally he used to belong to the same club as me when Shaun first started building these kits his idea was to have an Elefant if it wasn’t 100% accurate then that was the least of his worries, Shaun was given an Imai Elefant to clean up by one of his friends he was also allowed to make moulds from the kit once he realised that the top half would without to much work fit a Tiger II chassis the fact that this was wrong didn’t bother him in the slightest cos he had an Elefant for less than £1000 in-fact less than £500, this made people very happy so they bought this kit with the same attitude so what if it had Tiger II running gear it was still an Elefant and one that you could buy, roll on 3 years or more and still no one has come out with an Elefant kit apart from a company in Germany this is Resin and will set you back 450€ or more and it’s a static kit that would require Aisatam metal tracks running gear motors ETC along with an Aluminium hull so that kit running will end up costing 900€ probably more and parts on the main hull would be fragile as they are resin, so Shaun’s kit still looks attractive, just think how many people built a Firefly with the latter running gear and wrong turret

You can get a cnc kit of the elephant even the option of a metal lower hull you just need to buy the asiatam wheels and tracks http://www.ludwigs-hobby-seite.de/flohmarkt.html

Cheers Ian

Hi guys,

I built a Elephant based on Shauns kit, then later after running in combat with the local club(S.C.A.T.), I purchased his kit and made several upgrades to my conversion.
It still runs and is still a challenge on the field.
yes granted it is not correct but it is still a elephant and is used as such. my upgrades include scale speed, new gun/recoil mount and EL Mod electronics.

Mine has seen combat for about 3yrs and still going strong.
Pictures can be found on this site.

When somebody finally comes out with a new one that is 1/16 scale and not too awful expensive I'll place mine in respectful retirement.

so far all I see is promises...

Regards,

Bullyhys