Bolt Action King Tiger - Speed Assembly & WWII History 

There's something magical about hearing Naomi read the historical data on a tank while watching the assembly, even for someone like me who has almost no knowledge on warfare history. Nice video as usual!

Just when I thought 2020 had completely spiraled out of control, Naomi has restored balance to the world with a king tiger build. There is hope for humanity.

I fully agree that, if you briefly look passed it intended purpose, the Tiger is an admirable technical masterpiece. The model looks nicely detailed, I’d love to see your painting scheme for this one. Thanks Naomi!

Pity they don't do the German tank ace Whitman's 007 number in the decal sets. Then again, I could happily just sit and watch you build this kit with a BIG smile on my face, while you just work your magic. Your videos just bring so much inspiration and passion back into the hobby. I don't really game now, due to a certain illness closing every social activity down, but I AM enjoying painting up my Bolt Action 8th Army and Australian Infantry sets :-). I'd LOVE to see Bolt Action/Warlord games bring out a Maus tank for their late war Berlin campaign games. Now that would be spectacular :-D

This is basically WW2 ASMR!

The bucket shaped piece was used on the early Porshe turreted Tiger II engine deck , it covered the deep water wading snorkel . Tne snorkel was removed by production vehicle 25 - 30 IRC ( Tiger I also had a version , also removed ) . Later production vehicles had the flat circular plate . Note to use the Porshe turret you need to add the armoured collar pieces to the hull around the turret race as this was a shot trap on the curved Porshe turret . Henscel turrets being flat at the bottom didn't need it .

Awesome build and history description. Thanks Naomi

Good build video. Nice that they included the 2 types of turrets and a commander figure. Have fun painting it. Bill

Both Turrets were built and designed by Krupp, and only 50 of the round front turrets were built as they were a shell trap so it was replaced quickly

Very cool. Cant wait to see more Bolt Action and hopefully some battle reports on the channel!

The 'mystery piece' looks to be the cover for the flat piece, which is the air filter vent that goes on top of the turret ceiling. Crew had the option to leave the cover on or off, have yet to see a period photo that has the cover on when in operational use. Hope that helps! Ty for the build video!!

Some even had OK38 Osterkompass on roof of turret,looks like an old fashioned post box(UK).Mr metal color Dark iron,uniquish recipe,can create 'heavier' metal effects,buffable,medium without pigment an enigma of its own.A dark black mettalic with slight gloss effect,,mixed properly gives deeper metal colour that looks very realistic in small scale catches hues from light.Brushes flawlessly.I build interiors of 1\35 armour mainly.Grandaughter loves your channel.

I would love to see more Bolt Action content on the channel! Was looking for the paint-video of this, but has yet to find it :/

Thank you , Lady Naomi .

Fantastic build! Loved the little hymn at the end.

Very cool model.

Thanks for the video. Definitely interested in how you paint it

What modern tank would out perform the King tiger? Assuming we are comparing the King with MBTs, then literally any of them. Unless it's aesthetics wise. The king was a work of art.

Another great assembly video! Thanks!

What a pleasant surprise!

Excellent! I am really looking forward to future videos on Bolt Action. It is a very fun game and it is always neat seeing channels explore the historical side of the hobby.

The best World War 2 table top miniatures game. I've got the Warlord 'Hollywood' King Tiger. (and also the Kellys' Heroes U.S. Sherman Tank). Great fun

Hmm I love the King Tiger but against modern day tanks it would get its but kicked. It actually could kill a modern main battle tank in a side shot (below turret) as long as it didn't have reactive armor though. Side note I think the Jagpather has the record of ww2 of longest confirmed tank kill at like some 4km

Fun hobby to pass the time , Build more model tanks :)

Tanks for the inspiration!

The little song at the end made me laugh.

Naomi just a little technical terminology for you it is called elevate and depress

I've gotten Mirela a few times.... excellent packer!

I enjoyed this "Tank History with Naomi" episode. :)

Forgot to add, I really like the zimmerit coating on the armour (concrete added in layers to prevent magnetic explosives being attached). I'd like to see the waffle pattern on one of these kits, but there are some 1/48 scale kits (that are 25mm scale) out there to be found, and can be used in Bolt Action games too.

Nice vid and model, looking forward to seeing it painted.

The Soviets tested captured King Tigers after the war. They found that the armour protection was inferior to the Tiger I. The problem was the metallurgy-the quality of the steel had declined due to lack of materials, so much that the superior armour thickness didn't compensate for it. As far as how it would fare against modern tanks...probably not well. A T-55 (a very old, very obsolete design itself) has a better main gun, better speed, superior protection, IR optics to fight at night. Something properly modern like Abrams or Leclerc would make short work of it. That big can for the rear deck looks like an air filter. They probably got rid of it because they didn't want something on the rear deck that said "THROW GRENADE INSIDE THIS TO DESTROY TANK". It's a good looking kit in general, but boy are those some big gaps on the top of the turret. Time for Mr Surfacer! What pattern are you thinking about for the paint job? A standard camo? Maybe a winter version?

Thanks for reading the historical notes. I'm kind of interested in building some tank models. But I'm looking at the Panzer 1. I'm overdosed on the big cats and I'm more interested in the tiny tanks at the moment.

Nice Work, Nice Voice... keep it up..Cheers

Also, when are we getting the painting videos for the BA stuff??

love your voice timbre

Awesome... bolt action!

As far as your question, what modern tank would outperform the King Tiger and how? Considering what modern tanks such as M1A2 Abrams and Leopard 2 are capable of, that's not a really fair assessment. Abrams can fire on the move. At night. In a sandstorm. And put a depleted uranium penetrator on target. Look at its contemporaries and post war tanks. The T26 Pershing and the T26E4 with its long barreled high velocity 90mm may have been able to penetrate King Tiger from the front. I think I read somewhere that it "killed a Tiger", but in the later part of the war every German tank was a Tiger so it could've been anything. My money would be on the USMC M103A2 Heavy Tank. A big long barreled 120mm, that thick armor and diesel engine would allow it to take a hit from the KT's gun and put a sabot right through the Tiger's mantle.

Watching this as I build a Leopard C2 1/35th scale.

Speaking of tanks and Bolt Action, do you enjoy the weathering process? Would you consider making a weathering video in the future? I myself don’t play or collect Bolt Action, but I do enjoy weathering on 30K, 40K, and AOS. Thanks for the showcase and tips for putting the model together.

Was that a Petula Clark impression or a Sandie Shaw impression?

Tanks for the video 😂

Hello, Nice history during assembly. I thought it was interesting that you assembled the tank before Paintting. Could you talk comment on the pros n cons of Paintting before/after assembly? Thank you

They would call in air strikes if they found one operational as it was so tough other tanks did not match. Would love to see you playing some kings of war from Mantic. Could use blue stuff to make a mould of the piece out of milliput/green stuff mix.

I would like to build a bolt action tank one day

Female hobbyist:"Just follow the instructions". Male hobbyist:"I know what a tank looks like", 3 minutes later:"I guess i'll order another"

I gotta get into this one.... i love WWII stuff... my grandfather was involved in a bunch of the North African Campaigns and went up through Italy, to France into Germany... 14th AIB - Liberators

I can never bring myself to buying a model tank with glued tracks. Although most my static models hardly ever move, but their tracks are all rotatable.

My favorite tank

Want to see you paint it!

Nice Job 👍 Have you tried Rubicon?

Thanks for the great video, I´m always happy to see some Bolt Action. Especially the big cats of the late war^^ Quite a good model as well but sadly Italeri can´t get the "Zimmeritbeschichtung" right. It was applied to prevent magnetic explosives from adhering to the Panzer and it was done so by hand. But Italeri´s version is way too clean. It looks more like the tiled floor of a swimming pool.

Id love to hear your full adaptation of " downtown" that was the perfect end of the video

Did the kit include a squad of infantry figures?

Can't wait for the Rubicon ones to come out.

how long and how wide is this

Any modern tank would obliterate a king tiger. No contest.

Well as which tank would outperform the Tiger II ? Every single one of them. There are reasons why we don't drive around in Tigers or Shermans anymore and that is majorly due to the big triangle of power. a) Speed (mobility) b) Armour c) Firepower Let's take the modern version of the German MBT the Leopard 2. And compare it with it's triangle of power. Tiger 2 a) 38 Km/h and a 170km range* b) thickest 185mm c) 88m with max 2km range with a pentration of 132mm 30° Leopard 2A6 a) 70 Km/h with a 500km range* b) thickest 1730mm (turret front) however 930mm is the more appropriate one to take as the 1730mm are the cheeks c) 120mm with max 5km range 3-4 effective range with a penetration of 810mm at 30° at 2km range (adjusted for a comparison against the tiger However having served on a tank (well aks a tanker and he'd laugh but I did some time on the Dachs german engineering tank) and having talked to a few tankers in my army time. More important than pure stats of a tank is it's fighting ability and crew. As for fighting ability the major thing it target aquisition and ability to aim. And sorry the Tiger doesn't come close to any more modern tanks with IR-sensors, stabiliser and sights. So no the Tiger 2 even with it's Kampfwertsteigerungsset (combat-enhancement-equipment) doesn't come close to anything modern tanks can bring to the table. If we go back into the early war where the Panzer 3 was the driving force against the French the Panzer 3 was lacking behind the Frech Char. but won due to the better target aquisition methods the Germans had due to better scopes and a 3 men turret, but compared to what modern systems acchieve the Tiger would only be target practice for modern weaponplatforms. *range taken on road not across field Field fange would be 120km vs 161km

Lots have noted below that modern tanks would easily outclass the Koenigstiger - even in 1945 the British army was fielding the first generation Centurion tanks. While almost frighteningly effective for their day, German armour tended to be over-engineered (Panther transmissions anyone?) limiting production runs - so while the Sherman was adequate, sheer volume compensated for that. What keeps them in the public consciousness is that they had a particular look: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cl0TQ8XR4g4.html (note the recurring appearance in the of French army NCO whose day job is care and feeding of the last functioning King Tiger)

History too? You're a doll 💯

and she speaks Deutsch impressive

You asked the question what would a modern tank do to a King Tiger. Simple, it would destroy it without difficulty. A modern 120mm smooth board cannon firing Armor Piercing fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot (APFSDS) with a hardened pen tractor of tungsten and/or depleted uranium will go through about 1200mm of armor at expected engagement ranges. There is nothing on a Panzer 6 II this thick. Likewise that 88mm KwK43 on the King Tiger will go through about 220 mm max at 100mm and that is only using the composite rigid round with a tungsten core. The M1 Abrams has an armor thickness that maxes out at around 150mm, but but but it’s composite. Is effective thickness is much greater than its actual thickness. Add to the long range detection, gun stabilization and other goodies on most modern main battle tanks and you have a very one sided context. But I will end by saying that you don’t need to kill the Abrams to render it ineffective. As we have seen in Ukraine, an M2 Bradley with a 25mm autocannon can rake the optics and tracks off a T-90 and effectively blind it and render it useless. So given the drop, a King tiger might have enough of an effect to blind the M1. But it would be a very lucky shot. Great build channel, please do more and get the painting profiles up. really enjoyed these build videos!

Most modern day tanks have spaced armour (allows for the force of the rounds hitting it to be displaced before they hit the main body of the tank, especially explosive rounds), larger more penetrating and in a lot of cases smooth bore guns, way more speed and manoeuvrability and in some cases surface to surface missiles.

Angel's listen to her voice

As much as they were beasts back in the day, I think a really basic modern tank would easily destroy a king tiger

I'm not an expert, but I believe the depleted uranium rounds used in modern US tanks would penetrate any armor used in WW2 tanks.

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Refreshing, maybe some Battletech next?

didn't WW 2 tanks have to stop moving to shoot the main gun or couldn't hit anything, modern tanks can shoot on the move and commander can target a second tank while the gunner is engaging a different tank at greater ranges with better ammo

Which modern tank is the best? I think that is your question...perhaps? That is such a tough question and it is really important to understand that a 'great' tank is more than armor, hp to weight raito, and main gun. How easy it is to maintain and keep in the field is a HUGE component that people rarely talk about. The US Sherman is not what I would call a great tank in terms of armor or main gun and yet, it was reliable, easy to work on and cheap to produce in VAST numbers. If the US can produce, transport and field 50,000 M4 Shermans and the Germans can only produce 12,000 PzKw IV medium tanks guess which one is better? Numbers is a quality all its own. Which modern tank is the best? I think that the qualities of the German Leopard 2, South Korean K2 Black Panther, the US M1A2 SEP, UK Challenger 2, Russian Armata, Israel Merkava Mk 4, Japan Type 90, French Leclerc, Ukraine Oplot M, and Russia T-90 are all top shelf. Which tank is going to win engagements? Whichever one sees the opponent first (IMHO). 😇😇

Took a minute to remember the name... Check out the movie “White Tiger”.

looks like an interesting little kit, I have one 1/35 scale... you don't build in 35 by any chance?

If War Thunder is any indication, WW2 tanks are easily outmatched by any modern tank, even King Tigers. Better armor, speed, penetration and reliability. A main battle tank like the abrams has a 120mm gun with composite armor for example.

Just out of interest, have you checked out Artizan Designs WWII figures at all? They are pretty amazing, pretty cheap, and fit in very well with Bolt Action sets/games. Just planting seeds :-)

M1A1 Abrams Russian T-90 Challenger 2 Leopard A2 Chinese type 99 MBT and many more

I've been umming and arring about getting into bolt action for a while now, whats the actual ruleset like. I think I'd go Ruski if i did.

Every single modern tank would outclass a king tiger in every way so hard it wouldn't be a contest. 1) mobility: most modern tanks have a reliable drive train capable of road speeds of up to at least 60kph and offroad speeds of up to 50kph with the Brittish Challenger2 beeing the slowest and the US Abrams tank the most fuel guzzling still getting around 500km range to a tank of fuel and the ability to, with about half an hour of prepatation, deep ford water up to 6m depth. 2)Protection: the various classified combinations of composite, spaced, grate and explosive reactive armor on modern tanks along with the extreme sloping of the upper glacis is comparable to more than a meter of the face hardened rolled homogenous steel armor used in ww2 on the front of modern tanks. Many modern tanks also has active protection systems to shoot down or trigger incoming anti tank missiles and slow HEAT shells before they even get close to the tank. On top of that, modern tanks can be fitted with IR-signature dampening camoflage modules, making the tank much harder to see even through night vision devices and heat sensors. Modern tanks also have full NBC protection for up to 72hours. 3) Situational awareness: unlike the ww2 tanks where the crew were restricted to vision slits and periscopes where the engineers decided to place them, modern tanks has bigger and more periscopes with occationally overlapping field of view as well as external cameras, and protected image intensifiers (Night vision) integrated as toggle options in the drivers periscopes and rear view camera. Image intensifiers and heat sensors are also integrated in the gunners main sights and primary backup sights as well as in the commanders rotating hunter-killer sight/periscope. The gunners sights and commanders hunter-killer sight/periscope also incorporates laser range finders so that the commander can find and measure range to the next target while the gunner engages the previous one and then slave the turret traverse to align itself with the commanders sight/periscope when the gunner reports the first target defeated, freeing the commander to find a third. On top of that, the command and drivers station usually includes a tactical display where the commander can select various maps and overlays for himself and decide which is accessible to the driver. That tactical display is then, where availiable, updated in real time through the tanks data link network within the squadron, company, and higher with the nessesary information availiable, such as mine fields, restricted operation zones(nbc contamination etc), positions of own/allied/neutral/known hostile forces, own CAS/Artillery target&safety zones, suggested/ordered paths of advance. Firepower: most modern tanks are fitted with a 120mm smooth bore main gun loaded manually or automatically, carrying a compliment of APFSDS, HEFS, Canister, and sometimes gun launched anti tank guided missiles in a protected ready rack with blow out panels that redirects an ammo fire to blow out of the tank instead of cooking the crew. On top of that, there's a coaxial machinegun, a set of smoke, sometimes also flare/chaff launchers and a turret roof remote weapon station fitted with either a general purpose machinegun, a heavy machinegun, or a 40mm grenade machinegun, the weapon station mounting is usually modular to plug and play for either of the three as the mission dictates. The 3ish cm thick and 70+cm long tungsten or depleted uranium rod of the APFSDS penetrator would litteraly cut through the king tigers front armor like a red hot poker through butter, most likely punching straight through front armor, final drive, fighting compartment, rear firewall, engine and rear armor with enough mass and momemtum left to spray any infantry behind in hot spalling fragments and droplets of rear armor...

the king tiger tank is a great tank but it was completely built for the wrong war. it was put in service when Germany was already on the backfoot and because of the disconnect between high command and the troops someone up top decided that a heavy breakthrough tank ,that weighed a ridiculous amount and was cumbersome, to be the tank for the job. and as for your question about if anything modern could defeat it, any modern tank with decent pace to get around the back and put a HEAT shell right through the open top engine would finish it off right (but to be honest i think any tank with over 100mm gun like an M1A2 Abrhams with an armour piercing sabot round could go right through even the front armour of a king panzer)

no paint :(

Being ex-armour corps, any modern tank be it NATO or Russian would blow it to bits.... The new armour penatrating rounds would go through it gather. Please note that the use of mordern Chobham (american) or composite ceramics (others) was based on the German use of Schurzen and Zimmerit armor. How much is this model your displaying?

Her house must be a fortress.

M1 Abrams would just shoot it any directions and the king tiger would be dead on the spot.

A competitor to Herbert Erpaderp (if you never saw his videos, have a look, both informative and a good laugh). For your question, virtually ANY modern tank would outperform against the KT. Modern tanks are more mechanically reliable, more mobile, have better armour metallurgically (and Chobham laminate armour is just on a different level altogether), and modern guns (which are commonly 120 or 130mm compared to the KT's 88...) are more accurate and have greatly superior penetration, accuracy, and fire-on-the-move ability. The KT would have been utterly obsolete by late 1950s, quite likely before that. Having said that, I prefer the Porche turret, it just looks sleeker...

Almost any modern day tank has a bigger gun than the 88mm.

These things keep murdering me in War Thunder.

Is Bolt Action a fun game?

Nice model, even if it requires some work here and there once asembled looks pretty good to me; the Tiger II tanks were very problematic, they had some mayor malfunction every 2h as average, they were hard to hide and drank a too much gas. What modern tank would out perform it nowadays?, all of 'em; even several modern IFVs could take it out easily, ther armor of those days isn't up to the todays APFSDS rounds, isn't that much about the armor of the Tiger II as it is about the nowadays rounds and missiles, the outdated armor also have a role but isn't that big as the capabilities of the modern rounds, it'll be toasted at the 1st front shot of any modern MBT; those were good in their time againist what they had in front, not anymore thankfully.

Modern tanks are faster, with more accurate, more powerful guns and more potent shells, with better armour and faster reloading. As long as the gun is powerful enough to penetrate the armour, then any medium tank made from the 1950s on would outclass the Tiger 2, which was only at the forefront of tank tech for a couple of years, when all's said and done.

Merkava would kill a king tiger for shure

Wow!!! I love you!!! What better than a beautiful girl that builds models!!! What else can you ask for!!!

The tiger would be defeated even with an old tank like the T-72... The whole eastern europe is littered with these outdated soviet tanks like the t-55 and t-72 but lately even they started to throw/sell them to the arab countries. Tigers were good in their own time but they quickly become obsolete especially against the soviet tanks like the IS series.

if anyone is a die hard german player, whats smarter to start with ,,, grenadiers or waffen SS starter army ? me and a friend are warhammer refugees , and he is set on playing england ,, so that left me with the germans or italians ,,, and don't like the tanks of the italians

What a nightmare it must have been being in a Sherman Trashcan seeing one of these.

She keeps mispronouncing Henschel, it's not Henkel, ffs.