COBI Panzer VI Tiger no131 Set 2588

COBI's Panzer VI Tiger 131 is a 1:28 model built from 1,275 blocks, 31.5 cm long, with a rotating turret, movable barrel, working tracks with many links, opening hatches sized for COBI figures, tank ammunition that stows inside, and a removable Maybach engine that sits under the service hatch or displays alongside. The nameplate carries The Tank Museum logo.

The only one that still runs

Tiger 131 is at Bovington in Dorset, and it is the sole Tiger I anywhere in the world in running order. It is started for the public several times a year.

It survived because of a lucky shot. On 21 April 1943, in Tunisia, British Churchill tanks engaged it at close range; a round struck the gun mantlet and deflected downward into the turret ring, jamming the turret and wounding the crew, who abandoned the vehicle with the engine still running and almost nothing else damaged. The British had been trying to capture an intact Tiger for a year.

It was examined in the field, shipped to England, put on display in London for the public, and studied in detail — the first time Allied engineers had a complete Tiger to take apart rather than photographs of burnt-out ones. Churchill and King George VI both inspected it in Tunisia before it left.

Specifications

Pieces: 1,275 · Scale: 1:28 · Also included: removable Maybach engine, ammunition, nameplate
Model dimensions: 31.5 × 12 cm (12.4 × 4.7 in)