Tiger I Initial Production vehicle from s.Pz.Abt.502 (Item No. 6600). Now that formidable Tiger has found the perfect companion. Its new accomplice is a Panzer III Ausf.N variant, for these close-support tanks worked hand in hand with their larger partners. The kit accurately depicts a Panzer III Ausf.N from s.Pz.Abt.502 as it would have appeared in 1943 during fighting around Leningrad. This particular heavy tank battalion was the first unit to receive the Tiger I, and over the course of the war it destroyed 1400 enemy tanks and 2000 guns. Formed in May 1942, s.Pz.Abt.502 entered combat in the Leningrad sector that same year. Up till September 1943 it continued to fight around Lake Ladoga near Leningrad. The unit operated a mix of Tiger I and Panzer III N tanks, with the latter designed to serve as close-support vehicles to protect the Tigers from enemy infantry.