Tiger 1 fueling

Fuels cells were located on both sides of the engine compartment. The filler is under the small round armored cover at the front of the front set of grills on the back deck. The ones between the grills are the radiator fillers.

The fuel filler caps are on the forward end of the engine deck on each side in the front center of front grills. The look like a phillips head screw. The similar caps on each side of the engine just forward of the rear grills are for the radiatiors.

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Liejon

German armour is complex. 

All fuel tanks are interconnected. The system was filled at the center rear tank (with the filler cap) also the vent/breather lines are interconnected. All vents of the lower tanks lead via the higher positioned tanks to the filler tank. 

The driver could select which fuel tanks provided fuel...rear left (top and lower tank), rear right (top and lower tank), or both tanks in the fighting compartment. Selecting the rear tanks included also the center filler tank. 

TomZ, I think that is a Tiger II. The tanks are sloped to match the contours of the external sloped side armor.

Thanks everyone for your help.  I knew I could get an answer here.

I agree with Stik, that's a King Tiger Tom is showing you.

See if you can scare up a copy of the old Squadron-Signal Tiger In Action  It's full of black and white reference photos.

Didn't Squadron do a "Tiger Walk Around" book fairly recently?

stikpusher

TomZ, I think that is a Tiger II. The tanks are sloped to match the contours of the external sloped side armor.

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(Yes, that was a Tiger II.) Kyoshi Harada draw this Tiger I cutaway(s):