Interior color of Tiger 1

Modeling Subjects Armor
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Anyone know what the interior color of the TIger 1 tank is.

Looking at doing the fully detailed Academy kit and need color for interior.

Jim

2

Check out the Bovington tank museum site and go to www.tiger-tank.com. The site has good quality colour photos of a restored Tiger 1( early production) captured in Tunisia in 1943. The basic interior colour is off white (1 part Green+ 9 parts white) the painting instructions are pretty good on the Academy kit (i am Building it as we speak) but there are some differences from what i have seen of the Bovington Tiger. From what i gather good colour photos of Panzer interiors are fairly rare so some license is more than excusable. Goodluck.

3

Here is the Missin’ Dinks Data Dump on this kit;
http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/german/jptiger/jptiger.htm
As neudog stated, the Bovington cat should be a good reference for this model.
A great book to have for this and other German vehicles is;
World War II Wehrmacht Vehicles, Colour Close-up, by Jan Suermondt, ISBN: 1-86126-426-7. It has several excellent color photos of the Bovington Tiger, as well as many other restored vehicles.

4

Panzer interior buff is standard fare on my bench. Check out Otto Carius’ book “Tigers in the Mud”, I believe at one point in the book he said something about the white interiors turned sooty black by oil lamps…
Ryan

5

Don’t forget the Gray below the sponson ‘floors’ level in the hull and that some parts were left in primer red (especially if it was a replacement floor plate or what have you). Of course, you full fledged panzer guys can correct me if I’m wrong.

Ron