Sturmtiger Identification help

Ok, so if it were to be modeled like in that picture, I would have to leave off the right side of tracks, thats what I needed to know:D

Thanks, Anthony.

It apparently lost it's right track while moving and careened into the house shown in the photos. The 3 cable hanging brackets on the right side are mangled from the crash. Later photos of this vehicle show the track re-installed. Judging from all the straw thrown on the vehicle and on the left side track, it looks like the crew attempted to camouflage it after it lost the track and hoped to recover it later. There is a live and fused rocket loaded in the barrel, it was obviously going into combat when they lost the track. The shot holes in the back were probably shot at close range, judging from the tight pattern, most likely after it was already abandoned, just to see if "Anyone was home."

Ok, I'll download it and see what surprizes she brings :)

Thanks.

EDIT: Got it downloaded, went through it, those pics are great for painting!

btw, I need to clearify one thing, the tracks on the right side are all removed right? None are still there?

Thanks, Anthony.

The TankPower 16 book features a 5-view, 1/35th scale, color plates of this particular vehicle, a helpful painting reference.

So this is one messed up one eh?? lol

Ok thanks; I guess I'll have to examine the pics very closely to get the build accurate.

This Sturmtiger from Panzersturmmoerserbatterie 1001, was captured on Feb. 28th, 1945, near Reichswald, Germany. It's chassis number is 250327, which means it was built as a standard Tiger in June of 1943. It has 31 gas openings, as opposed to 20 of the prototype, 39 in early production vehicles and 30 in late ones. It also has 9 groove rifling, the later type barrel sheath with the chevron-shaped undercut and fitted with both sets of muzzle projections. There is a surprising amount of variation in the 18 Sturmtigers that were built. The Kubinka Sturmtiger is somewhat unique and has features not normally found on the others. One prototype, 12 series-produced between August 13th to September 21st, and a final 5 in December 1944. This is one of the 12 series-production models. It uses earlier model, large diameter idlers, (late models used the smaller idlers) and has a soft-edge "Ambush" scheme paint job with only a few rather large Dunkelgelb spots.

 A good  reference for this is TankPower Vol 16, though the book has a few mistakes.