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I guess there really is a more expensive form of re-enacting!!
A scale 262!! Amazing.
Travis
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A fleet of battlecrusiers might set your reenacting budged back a little...
I'd KILL for a running reproduction Tiger or Panther- and not a silly T54 dressed up as one :wink:
So don't kill me, but I've seen a running King Tiger.
Oh sure- I know the museum at Saumur has one, and a Panther too. Must be damned cool to see those beasts driving...
Quote:Oh sure- I know the museum at Saumur has one, and a Panther too. Must be damned cool to see those beasts driving...
Bovington Tank Museum has a working Tiger I.
NOPE....................
It doesnt work.........
a few years back i tried to see wether we could use it for a movie.... alass.... it did work once, but someone tried the witmann maneuver with it.... the crankshaft broke, the engine caught flame, and the inside buckled up... and the conservator of the museum told me personally it wouldnt be possible for a very very long time to restore it...
M.VIB.M.
I stand corrected!
well it was about 5 years ago they told me...........
VERY HAPPY IT WORKS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
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M.VIB.M.
Damn, That was one hell of a tank.
Every time I see one, (or the 262's for that matter!) I'm reminded of that old Jimmy Stewart line from "Flight of the Phoenix" to the German Engineer.
"How did we ever beat you guys?"
Quote:"How did we ever beat you guys?"
Faster, more manoeuvrable, less needy, more adaptable, and greater in numbers; the Sherman.
Quote:Damn, That was one hell of a tank.
Every time I see one, (or the 262's for that matter!) I'm reminded of that old Jimmy Stewart line from "Flight of the Phoenix" to the German Engineer.
"How did we ever beat you guys?"
:lol: What a great line in a great movie- and it might have had something to do with having to fight the US, Great Britain including all of the Commonwealth countries, forces from all the conquered countries, AND the Soviet Union...
Lack of fuel? :wink:
You do wonder though, what if they'd switched to improving the Panther and forgot about the heavies. That, after all, was their most versatile one and the model for most post war MBTs.
Quote:Lack of fuel? :wink:
You do wonder though, what if they'd switched to improving the Panther and forgot about the heavies. That, after all, was their most versatile one and the model for most post war MBTs.
Who needs a fast panzer when they needed mobile bunkers most of all? But I think the production of Stugs was a mistake, probably the numbers were more important than quality (turrets cost money and time).
I said versatile, not just fast. The Panther still had better armor than most of the Allies' and one of the best guns of the war. Instead of a little under 2000 Tigers and KTigers, they might have produced even more Panthers... On the other hand, the sheer reputation of the Tigers did help as well. How about forget the Panther and just keep rolling out the Panzer IVs with Tiger and KTiger supports?