Dragon Armor 1/72 German Heavy Tank E-100 (60138)

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Dragon are steadily expanding this range of superb models, crafted in plastic for maximum detail definition with some metal parts and finished in authentic camouflage schemes. Tracks are one piece rubber but give a good effect. Nicely boxed - good plastic display box inside a cardboard outer. Model length is about 4 1/2" (115mm) - based on Tiger 1. Most have rotable turrets and a gun that elevates. Fine detail incudes ropes, shackles and tools carried on the chassis, plus smoke dischargers, machine guns and external petrol tanks appropriate for each model. Best of all these models are pre-painted with sharp, accurate and authentic camouflage and realistic weathering.

Dragon Armor 1/72 German Heavy Tank E-100 (60138)
A detailed model of the proposed German E-100 heavy tank. Fully assembled with a rotaing turret and posable co-axial guns. Detailling of this model is limited as no E-100 tanks were completed. The model shows how the tank might have appeared during trials.

The E-100 project was commissioned in order to standardize parts. It was to be built in classes of varying sizes to replace existing vehicles. Different types were designated a number indicating their weight in tons: E 10, E 25, E 50 (Panther replacement), E 75 (Tiger replacement) and E 100.

Of these only the E-100 project was actually started, but construction of the prototype proceeded slowly at Henschel's test plant after Hitler's order to cease work on super-heavy tanks, and at the end of the war only the bare hull and suspension were completed.

The E-100 would have been a very powerful 100-ton combat tank. Intended to carry the German 88mm gun in a modified 'Maus' turrent one prototype chassis built by Henschel at Paderborn in early 1945 and scapped post-war in England.

Given the problems the German army encountered with mobility of their heavy Tiger and King Tiger tanks we can only wonder how successful this 100-tonne monster would have been in the muddy battlefields of WWII.

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