The last charge: SS sPzAbt 501 Tiger II in Hungary, operation Frühlingserwachen

Operation Frühlingserwachen was the last, desperate offensive carried out by the German OKH in Hungary against the Gran bridgehead  in a vain attempt to protect  the hungarian oil fields and recapture Budapest. Led by the last armoures units of the once powerfull 6th SS Panzer Armee, after an initial limited success the offensive bogged down in spring thaw and against overwhelming  soviet forces, ending  in a total failure .

Havng been always fascinated by the vicious and desperate fighting on the last year of war in the east, I decided to built a model depcting the exhausted and hars conditions experienced in those dark days. the coiche fell on Revell's Kingtiger, an excelelnt model to be updated with Part Photoetched and RB barrel.

then I painted the thank with superb AK interaktive late war geman colour set  and weathered it with oils and AK enamels...  the last touch came from a superb Mantis model German Panzer crew...  the tank  featured  in Steel Art's "Koenigstiger project special"  with step by step of building, painting and weathering stages ...