Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. E, aka Tiger 100

Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. E, aka Tiger I, initial production, with a rather colorful history:

On January 18, 1943, at about 12 noon, during an offensive operation in the vicinity of Leningrad, Workers' Village No. 5 was completely cleared of the enemy. Here a meeting was held between soldiers of the 18th Infantry Division of the 2nd Shock Army of the Volkhov Front and the 136th Infantry Division of the 67th Army of the Leningrad Front - the blockade of Leningrad was broken.
Around 14, the enemy launched a massive shelling of the village, which lasted more than an hour.
At about 16:00, already at dusk, a single tank of an unfamiliar design appeared on the road from the direction of Dust Mill. Not reaching 200 meters to the village, the tank, maneuvering unsuccessfully, slid off the road with one of its tracks into a ditch, lay down with its bottom on the edge of the road and got stuck. Since the Leningraders had previously attacked along the same road, the defenders of the village decided that this tank was Soviet, from Leningrad, and therefore did not attach much importance to it. The crew got out of the tank and began to inspect it, but as soon as the Red Army soldiers headed towards it to provide assistance, they rushed to run through the peat quarry towards Workers' Village No. 6. Soviet soldiers opened fire with small arms, but thanks to twilight and stacks of peat, the tankers managed to escape.
This is how the first Tiger fell into the hands of the Soviet army. It was practically undamaged: the crew only managed to cut the electrical wiring to the engine starting system; all other equipment remained intact.
It was a pre-production tank from the 502nd Heavy Tank Battalion with tail number 100, serial number 250004, with unique side storage boxes.
It was soon towed to the rear, and after studying the technical parameters at the Kubinka training ground, in June 1943 it was presented at an exhibition of captured equipment in Moscow.
In 1947, this tank was sent for scrap.

Precisely because this is the first Tiger captured by Soviet troops, without further ado, the vignette was called “The First Tiger.”

Basic set of Dragon, 2 cool sets of photo-etched Voyager, metal Friul tracks (mirror, of course), too many chemicals to count, a lot of different things, I made snow for the first time, read a lot of things on the Internet and found an interesting thing for myself: Precision Ice and Snow from the English company Krycell - powders and wash.