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Message:: [QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 10204000, member: 42034"]Wow a Tiger II tanker!  When a kid I built a motorized Panther from a kit but I really wanted a Tiger model.  It was too expensive at $12 as I was getting paid $3 per lawn for cutting grass.  So I got the Panther instead ($8). Yes the Tiger-II's or King Tigers were probably the best tanks of WW-II deployed in any numbers: but they were still very limited due to cost and numbers.  They were very expensive.  I recall only 300 or 500 being built. There were some other tanks, like a US Super Pershing (90 mm gun) but only 2 were built with only one actually being used in combat.  Mainly the Allies had to make due with the extremely inferior Shermans but some were outfitted with an extra-long 76 (.1?} mm gun {the British Firefly}. At Normandy I learned that people to this day come and put flowers every year on Whitman's grave.  He was the German tank-Ace but commanded only a Tiger-I. It's interesting that when you see pix of knocked-out tanks during WW-II, they seem mostly intact.  I recall seeing British tourists posing next to a Tiger in France in the 1950s and aside from looking a bit overgrown with bushes, the tank looked perfectly serviceable. Today when you see destroyed tank pix from the Ukrainian war, the Russian tanks are often in pieces or just twisted scrap iron.  Why do you think that is?[/QUOTE]