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Offline Greebo

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s. Pz Abt 503 King Tiger
« on: October 21, 2026, 03:50:19 AM »
Thanks to Lyric1 for finding me the info for this skin. The photo shows the name "Heinz" painted on the gun barrel but I can't reproduce this due to the dumb way the textures are done on this shape.

In April 1945 the 503rd Heavy Tank Battalion was deployed to the Seelow Heights to east of Berlin as part of Army Group Vistula. Opposing them was Marshal Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front, with a force nine times their size. Zhukov's attack began with a massive artillery bombardment, despite front line commanders asking for it to be cancelled as the forewarned Germans had recently withdrawn from their front line positions. The result was little damage to the defenders but the Soviets then having to slog through a sea of mud while being picked off by the Germans at range. After three days the Soviets prevailed but only after suffering some 30,000 casualties.

This 503rd Tiger II was knocked out to a hit that glanced off the gun barrel and then penetrated the turret's frontal armour, likely to a 100mm or bigger gun. It was painted in a well worn temporary winter camouflage of whitewashed squiggles and had crudely applied turret numbers.




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Re: s. Pz Abt 503 King Tiger
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2026, 10:43:15 AM »
Most excellent.
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Re: s. Pz Abt 503 King Tiger
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2026, 10:51:06 AM »
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Re: s. Pz Abt 503 King Tiger
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2026, 09:20:57 PM »
Man these tank skins are awesome looking. I might have to take this out for a ride
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