King Tiger with a TURBINE....

[wolfik]

hi all
yess....it could be a true tiger version...but thanks god the war was over...
in the tiger book from walter spielberger  on the page 185 are some oryginal drawings of this conversion.
it was proposed to reengine the panther/kingtiger (propably the next following E versions too...) with a turbine.
it was proposed to instal  this beast longitudinal or lateral...I decided to make the first one.
its naturally a what if project so most of the "technical solutions" are my own...
...and Im technically on the level of an ikea-rack-screwer...
its not finished yet because its the work of an evening (and of 1h law&order and 3 hours of CSI )
I will propably mould&cast it so let me know if any crazy builder is interested.
by the way.any king tiger kit and the E versions from trumpeter has dimensionally the same engine deck
even 56x73mm...
Im building a conversion to rebuild the E50/75 to a tank hunter...its the last photo.

any comments?

[TsrJoe]

this is looking really neat, love the exhaust duct too, definately following this with interest

iv posted a lil snippet re the GT.101 turbine tank over on the panzer 46 thread which might be of interest too

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,29662.0/highlight,panzer+46.html

cheers, joe