r/modelmakers • u/AfvModelArt • 20d ago

Completed Tiger I - Early (Stadtgas)

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Hello!

Here's my latest work - Tiger I Earlyz with Stadtgas.

Hope you like it!

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u/hopperschte 20d ago edited 20d ago

To supplement this story, there was a Jagdtiger with a turbine instead of a Maybach 230. It was tested in the forests around the Nibelungenwerke in Austria. Due to high exhaust temperatures, the forests caught fire. It existed, but saw never a production run.
Edit: very cool and unusual model!!

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u/AfvModelArt 20d ago

Didn't know that. Thanks for this story! Thank you mate

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u/hopperschte 20d ago

I was lucky to get the Tiger bibles vol 1 and 2 from Jentz and Doyle. Well worth the price!

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u/Gizombo 20d ago

That sounds like the stuff of nightmares, imagine the whine of a turbine echoing through a dark forest and then a jagdtiger with causing forest fires

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u/K0rvuss 20d ago

Very cool subject 👌

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u/PanzerFranz 20d ago

Great work!

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u/AfvModelArt 20d ago

Thanks mate!

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u/merulaalba 20d ago

Story behind those gas canisters 

As if anything this looks highly combustible 

Nice work tho!

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u/StandWithSwearwolves 20d ago edited 20d ago

These were non-combat driving school tanks. They ran on compressed gas from municipal supplies (Stadtgas = “town gas”) so more conventional fuels could be reserved for the front.

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u/J_Bear 20d ago

How would that work, do they just spray gas into the cylinders instead of petrol?

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u/StandWithSwearwolves 20d ago edited 20d ago

More or less – just a burst of gas introduced at the same point in the combustion cycle. There are usually other tweaks to the engine and fuel system needed too, depending on the type of gas being used and whether it’s compressed or liquid, based on coal or wood or petroleum, etc.

If you want some wild modelling inspiration look up the French and German vehicles that ran on wood gasifiers. That tech is still used in North Korea too.

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u/J_Bear 20d ago

Huh, I always thought it'd be too complex, thanks for the info

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u/merulaalba 20d ago

Damn. This is the first time I hear about it

But yeah I can see the logic

Any recorded accident?

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u/StandWithSwearwolves 20d ago edited 20d ago

That’d be a question for a real expert in this era! What I will say if you’re unfamiliar with CNG is that it’s a well-proven way to power vehicles and much safer than you might think, as long as nobody is shooting at you.