Vespid Models VS720018 1/72 Tiger 1 Tank Early Production with 3D Printed parts 88

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Vespid Models VS720018 1/72 Tiger 1 Tank Early Production with 3D Printed parts

This kit is of the usual high quality you would expect from Vespid and also comes with etch parts, metal barrel, 3D printed mussel brake and 3 decal options..

BRIEF HISTORY
The Tiger I was a German heavy tank of World War II that operated beginning in 1942 in Africa and in the Soviet Union, usually in independent heavy tank battalions.
The tank was given its nickname “Tiger” by Ferdinand Porsche, and the Roman numeral was added after the Tiger II entered production.
It gave the German Army its first armoured fighting vehicle that mounted the 8.8 cm KwK 36 gun (derived from the 8.8 cm Flak 36). 1,347 were built between August
1942 and August 1944. After August 1944, production of the Tiger I was phased out in favour of the Tiger II.

While the Tiger I has been called an outstanding design for its time, it has also been called overengineered, using expensive materials and labour-intensive production methods.
In the early period Tiger was prone to certain types of track failures and breakdowns and was in general limited in range by its high fuel consumption. It was expensive to maintain, but generally
mechanically reliable. It was difficult to transport and vulnerable to immobilisation when mud, ice, and snow froze between its overlapping and interleaved Schachtellaufwerk-pattern road wheels, often jamming them solid.
This was a problem on the Eastern Front in the muddy rasputitsa season and during periods of extreme cold.