The Roco Minitanks Tiger II with early turret.
This turret was intended to be mounted on a Porsche designed hull, but that hull was not adopted as a tank, and was instead used for the Ferdinand / Elephant tank destroyer.
Since a number of these turrets were already produced they were put on this hull as tanks.
This is one of the oldest Roco Minitanks, I have had them since the early 1960s.
This one has been primer painted but not been given it's final paintjob.
Originally this tank model had the little wheels on the bottom but I took them out.
Nice umlaut on the O.
The German Tiger II tank hull was 24 feet, 3 inches long. The Roco model is exactly the correct length for HO scale. The Mascot ruler shows distances in HO scale, used by model railroaders.
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I had these tanks when I was a little kid; they always seemed disturbingly outsized to me; I don't believe they were true HO scale, always thought they were more like 1/76, or maybe a weird outlier 1/80 at best - I know early Roco models were all over the place, scale wise, with some at about 1/100, and others seemingly bigger than 1/87.
that 88mm L/70 gun seems like a tree trunk compared to the 105mm cannon on the Roco Centurions (a true HO scale, I believe), and dwarfs the spindly 122mm on the Roco Stalin IIIs (smaller than true HO I think), so kind of a giveaway regarding the scale. Any thoughts on that? Have you gotten HO-scale Tiger IIs from other, more "detail-reliable" companies that have a more trimmed-down model?
banzi, the Tiger II hull is 24 feet, 3 inches long. The Roco Tiger II in HO scale is exactly the right length to the inch. I added another photo to this list to show the length using the Mascot Model Railroad Scale.
Thanks for your question.
Bunkermeister
Interesting; I would have sworn it was outsized, Did you ever do an "HO-reality" check on some of the other roco products, in particular the JS-III and the early M-58 Patton (I'm guessing that one is 1/100)
The first few Roco, the M47 Patton, their model Z-101 Sherman, their early Panzer IV and Panzer IV based vehicles, like the Ostwind, their Panther, and several others were way underscale, maybe, as you suggested, 1/100th scale. They dropped several of the worst one's rather quickly, but strangely it took decades before Roco did a new Panzer IVh and it's awesome! Paul Heiser Models moved in with about 20 different spectacular Sherman tanks, and several Panthers. Later, Trident did a new HO Panther in at least 6 versions. Roco continued to make their terrible Panther until they ceased production of Minitanks last year. The Roco JS-3 measures out as HO scale in length and width. Thanks for reading.
Bunkermeister
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