A totally silly tank, look at the size of just the turret!
Is that a 1/35 Tiger? BTW, the gun barrel is sideways on it.
That is a 1/35th scale kit of the E-100, and no, the barrel is in the correct position. If you are talking about the smaller 75mm, the weight is to try to provide the correct harmonics for the gun. It failed. If you mean the 128, the outgassing ports were put on the top only to keep the gun from jumping. 
If you mean the tiger 1, yep, I moved in going from the ipms meeting. Idiot me! The barrel was out of line from norm after the internal ammo explosion when it was hit with the second round from a very accurate Sherman gunner.
Sorry, I meant the Tiger. The baffle is 90 degrees off.
Yeah, I just noticed. It should have been slightly off, per the photos, but not that far. Transporting models in a Jeep can be …moving? LOL.
Does DML still offer the Maus? If not, why?
It was first offered in the mid-90s and then reissued around 2002. It still pops up on eBay every so often. It’s another one of the tanks that are one ofs. The actual Maus was never really completed and the Russians supposedly added the turret of one prototype onto the unfinished hull of another.
I bought it when it first came out and sold it later…I remember that is was a pretty nice kit for the time with indy-links, weld detail, etc…and all…I also believe it was one of the first w/ Volstad artwork (maybe THE first)…I wish I had kept it…
Most of the lhs’s around here have them in stock, and I know that Dragon USA is still issuing the nightfighter version, mine was sent direct from the company.
There was some talk of a few Maus tanks being used in action, but the one in the musuem is indeed made from two tanks, as Rob stated. I doubt they were ever exposed to combat.
The Maus body was built and tested, there are pictures of the actual vehicle running with a mock turrent. The turret was never conmpletely finished and mounted to a body. Supposedly they were going to use the same turret for the E100. The one the Russians captured was made up from two vehicles with a turret from a different manufacturer. The E100 never actually ran. Allied troops (US) found the body without tracks.
That makes me wonder why Trumpeter models show a different turret with their model of the E100.
That E100 from Trumpeter is an “ausf B”—the hypothetical mating of a redesigned turret based on the KIng Tiger turret, to incorporate a little more of the actual modifications that would have probably been incorporated; a more balllistcally-shaped turret, spare track holders, a cupola on the turret, etc.
There’s a story regarding the Ausf B. A modeler made a “what if” Ausf B and entered it in a show. Apparently they used photographs of his kit to design and make their own Ausf B model.
Love that review!
Nice write up [:)]
Cheers
Mike
Yup–Mike Rinaldi, I believe it was? I would buy that story–the model looks almost identical.