Heavy hardware
Clearly the driver and radio operator had way too much footspace and too few tools. The solution to this problem was just behind the corner!
Control unit
Unlike the last Indiana Jones movie's tank, this jolly beast wasn't (only) controlled by pulling levers to brake the tracks, but via a steering wheel! The L801 steering device was a simple-looking two-piece module, that was glued onto a larger cylinder setup. The steering wheel didn't look too ergonomic to me, nor did was it a wheel, but that was just silly nitpicking.
Gearbox complex
As far as I understood the next setup consisted of the gear-housing (a 7-gear Zahnradfabrik AK 7-200) and a more blocky gearbox (OG 40 12 16B Schaltgetriebe). From now on, whatever all this should technically be called, will be referred to as "the gearbox" for simplicity.
FunkGerät 5
My King Tiger's radio setup consisted of a couple of boxes. Based on a couple of photos I found from the interwebs it should have a rack frame of some sort (painted white). Setting one up wouldn't be a problem, if one could count on the tank's upper part fitting on top of it. The larger box was a FuG 5, but I didn't recognize the smaller one as anything else - or a command unit's FuG 2 (unlikely, this didn't have the antennae required). This was the time I should've had a handful of very technical sourcebooks... in any case, whatever these were, they got installed on top of the gearbox housing.
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