I'll admit to having about 40 years experience building kits and have seen many changes for the better and just how far since the 1970's the hobby has come.
I will admit to not knowing if my Takom king Tiger kit is/was suffering from some undetected warping of the lower hull but when fitting the plating that the bottom of the turret basket fits around, the two smaller front and rear parts just didn't want to go into the gaps at all and were too wide. I would have had to cut them to fit in place by about 1mm and that would have meant that the turret basket would not have sat correctly.
It could have been me though not paying attention Who Knows!
I am going to have a bash at their Panther with interior when that appears and I hope that my pleading on facebook not to mould ammo to racks will be listened to. If Meng can do it, so can takom!!!
I probably shouldn't mention it on the armour section, but my next kit purchase will be Zoukei-Muras' new Do335 A-12!
For the exterior paint I would go with Vallejo's model air RAL 6003 and RAL 8017 They're accurate for the green and brown. For their Dunkelgelb RAL 7028 (71.025) that is actually the Dunkelgelb Nach Muster which oblky saw service during Operation Citadel. It changed whaen that operation ceased so Tiger II's never had that on. you could try adding a little brown or green to tone it down.
For closer to the original you should try this
https://hobbycolours.com/collections/germany-enamel-paints-akan/products/ral-7028-dark-yellow-4
From late December 1944 the base colour changed to RAL 6003.
Dunkelgelb also changed in shade to close to the following
https://hobbycolours.com/collections/germany-enamel-paints-akan/products/ral-7028-dark-yellow-5
Here is a good source, although black and white
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This picture we can actually locate to a unit, location and date. This tells us lots about the vehicle and the colours when you look into German archives.
This photograph was taken on October 15, 1944 in St Georges Square, Budapest, Hungary. This (233) and 3 other Tiger II tanks from 503 Heavy Tank Batallion were supporting a small ground force of German troops during an uprising.
The paint on the tiger II is fresh as this unit had just bee re-equipped to replace losses and as other readers not is different.
THis vehicle and the rest of the second company of the 503 were taking part in field trials of the green base coat, which shows on the lower part of the tank. You can clearly see that the road wheels and lower hull behind them are not Dunkelgelb which is much less prominent than being the base coat.
THe Tank was manufacured before the zimmeritt application was stopped (9th September 1944) as Zimmeritt is clearly seen on the turret and upper hull sides and other pictures of this vehicle puts the manufacture date as probably the last 2 weeks of August 1944.
It may not be easy to see but the predominat colour of this vehicle is RAL 6003 broken up by RAL 7028 and RAL 8017