I’m bored this Christmas Eve morning, drinking coffee while everyone in the house is still resting 
Last year about this time, 218 aka Tiger w/waffles was creeping forward very slowly. Likewise, a fat stack ~10 to 12 incomplete model kits were stacked around the hobbyroom. Today, it’s three and 218 aka Tiger w/waffles is completed.
Hobbywise, this has been an amazing year, my best since sometime in the early 1990’s.
I want to say thank you to the forum and everyone who took the time to look, read or comment on my various build blogs.
That kept the momentum fueled at several discouraging points.
Currently working on a “How To” guide for
make-your-own-zimmerit-with-tamiya-gray-putty-testors-liquid-cement. One side effect, there’s another Tiger kit on the workbench just for zimmerit coating.
To keep that old Tamiya Late Tiger 1 kit from becoming another incomplete build/shelf queen after coating, I’ve decided add it to this thread. This build will be nothing like the 1970 vintage Tamiya Early Tiger build, as this will be a basic slap-per-to-get-her and hose down with the airbrush.
What it is…
I have built this kit previously.
Half a life time ago in 1990-1995, my first Holy Grail project. Absolutely no idea what I was doing making Milliput Zimmerit, scratching an interior, adding an engine and working with PE, all for the first time on a then expensive, complicated state of the art, seemingly complex kit.
Complicated? 
Yes, the instructions had ~15 steps and the old Tamiya Tiger’s instructions had 8 steps. Very complicated!
Anyway, the kit isn’t complex, nor is it state of the art anymore nor was it expensive given I paid $20 for it. The build plan is zimmerit, aftermarket tracks, metal gun barrels, Eureka tow cables, Heavy Hobby headlight & PE engine deck screens.
Select parts needed to support zimmerit coating are removed, attachment points dressed and deburred.
Assembled
Various subassemblies
Mock up w/wheels
Inner most road wheel has four outward facing punch marks. Most can be hidden with carefully wheel placement etc but they need some attention as several are visible from the side to Panzer Police detectives in the know.
I can’t believe how simple this kit looks to me in 2024 vs 1989.
Side note
Tiger 1, knocked out by well meaning Christmas Caroler’s FPV drone strike. (J/k)
My old junior high era 1/25 Tamiya Tiger 1 has been slowly falling apart on the display shelf for 45+ years.
It’s worse than I realized 
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Panzermodellwerk Nord zur Überholung und Sanierung