Bolt Action Unboxing: King Tiger Zug
October 24, 2017 by johnlyons
This week we're unboxing the King Tiger Zug for Bolt Action from Warlord Games.
The official German designation for the King Tiger was Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausfuhrung B. Produced from 1943 - 1945 there were almost 500 made during the second world war.
This kit allows you to create three of your own Tigers in either the Henschel or Porsche turret configuration and comes with decals, damage markers, and the stat cards.
Would you use these in an asymmetric game?
Want these 🙂
Still want a resin one, big weighty beast 🙂
Whenever I see a space on a sprue like the one between the shovel and commander, I wonder why the designer didn’t try to fill it with something to get more out of the mold. Some kind of bits and bobs for dressing up the kit, or a tank trap or a short stack of extra tracks; something that would fill up the space and add a little more detail to the kit.
Ramble On
The sprues are falling all around
It’s time for more super glue
Thanks to you I’m much obliged
For such a pleasant chew
But now it’s time for me to go
The LED strips lights my way
For now I smell diesel
And camo paint
And another vlog day
Ah, sometimes I grow so tired
But I know I’ve got one thing John’s got to do
Ramble on
And now’s the time, to talk more tanks
To glue this tread
I’m goin’ ’round the room, I got to find that part
I just clipped
I’ve been this way after 10 tanks dipped
Ramble on
Gotta find John so he can again
Ramble on
It looks great… but everytime I see the King Tiger with commander, got the feeling the Commander is too big, whats your opinion about that johnlyon.
Well. This plastic kit is a Warlord kit, so their commanders fit to the infantry in their Heroic proportions. The other kits which are manufactured by Italeri are a True proportion so their commanders “fit” more. I don’t mind personally. I like them both 🙂
Have one of the old resin ones, still yet to put it on the table after many years as it’s such a points sink! 🙂
Just a few points:
All production Tigers were build and designed by Henschel. All Tiger turrets were build by Krupp. Porsche and Henschel turrets as well.
The Porsche turret might look a bit more fancy but the front was a trap for incoming projectiles. From the point “which one makes more sense” the Henschel design is superior… and it could carry more ammo 😉
John – go stand in the corner. Some inaccuracies there…. 489 – 492 were built but that number could easily have been trebled with work in progress that was disrupted by air raids – for example: Production was severely disrupted several times by shortages of labor, material and because of unrelenting bombing raids on the main plant at Kassel. In all, five raids severely affected the plant between 22 September and 7 October 1944: 95% of the floor area was destroyed. The estimated loss ranges around 657 Tiger IIs from that alone. Full production peak was attained in mid-1944 and… Read more »
I would like to use it but we mostly play with a lot of infantry so it isn’t that useful.
@johnlyons, if I recall correctly, the jousting knight markings were of the s.H.Pz.Abt. 505
You’re correct… s.Pz.Abt. 505 had the knight.
Thanks guys 😀
‘Tank Rambles’ needs to be a series
that a fabulous looking kit/tank.
Can both turrets be fully built?
It ‘s said in the video. If you scratch built a second gun mount, yes.
Who said 3D printer….