• Display base with texture
• New material!
• Individually-numbered card
• Valued-added
• Online limited edition

Features:
- True to 1/72 scale
- Diorama Base Included
- Detailed markings
- Fully assembled
- Highly collectible

The final Maus model in the Dragon collection is the V2 prototype. It differed in many details from the V1, and in mid-1944 this vehicle received a Daimler-Benz MB 517 diesel power plant and the first production turret at Kummersdorf. Tests commenced in September 1944. The turret boasted a 128mm KwK 44 L/55 main gun and a coaxial 75mm KwK 44 L/36.5 coaxial gun. There was also a 7.92mm MG for anti-aircraft defense. The V2 prototype was dispatched to Berlin for the defense of the Fatherland late in the war, but it broke down en route near Zossen. The crew then proceeded to blow it up.

This Dragon 1/72 scale model shows the V2 prototype undergoing testing at Kummersdorf with its impressive turret. It is beautifully painted and finished, and is set in an attractive diorama setting as it descends into a concrete water tank. Interestingly, the Soviets mated the V1 hull and V2 turret at the end of the war and took them back to the USSR for evaluation. This Maus can now be seen at the Kubinka Tank Museum. But for collectors, this Dragon model is a lot more convenient to display than the 188-ton original!

Features:
- True to 1/72 scale
- Diorama Base Included
- Detailed markings
- Fully assembled
- Highly collectible

At 188 tons, the Maus was the heaviest tank design to reach the prototype stage in WWII. Designed by Ferdinand Porsche, it was suitable classified as a super-heavy tank. It’s ironic that the name Maus means “mouse” in German! The first V1 turretless prototype was completed by Alkett in December 1943, with testing commencing the same month with a mock turret. A production run of 150 tanks was envisaged, but when the war ended a total of only nine Maus tanks were found in various stages of completion. Dragon has produced a scale model of the mighty Maus as it appeared in its prototypical stage. The original V1 prototype featured a weighted mock-up to replicate the actual weight of the turret.

This item has been carefully reproduced on the model, and the whole vehicle is finished in a monotone sand color. The 1/72 scale model is presented in a fully completed mini-diorama, with the Maus ready to begin testing in water at the Böblingen testing facility. The concrete texture on this diorama is superbly rendered in a resin cold casting. This Maus is ready for its driving test!

This model is painted in a two-tone camouflage scheme with a distinctive unit insignia of 3./s.H.Pz.Jg.Abt.88 fighting on the Eastern Front in the autumn of 1944. This brand new item is finely weathered and fully detailed.

Main Features:
- Accurate Nashorn mold with full details
- True-scale model
- Historically accurate two-tone camouflage pattern
- Detailed and weathered track links
- Includes display case
- Pre-assembled

About the Nashorn:
The rhinoceros, a native of Africa, is identifiable by its mighty and dangerous horn. On the other hand, a Nashorn (German for rhinoceros) is identifiable by its long and lethal 88mm Pak 43/1 L/71 gun. When the earlier Hornisse tank hunter (a Panzer IV reincarnated with an 88mm gun mounted centrally in a lightly armored superstructure) was modified with this newer gun and a revised driver’s front plate, it also received the new name of Nashorn, at Hitler’s request.