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Title: Tank Museum Acquires A Replica A7V
Post by: Phil Robinson on 03 January 2013, 11:37:36 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztkKJUQB4rU&list=UUhl-XKVVBAzoEVsnbOfpcqw&feature=player_embedded

Title: Re: Tank Museum Acquires A Replica A7V
Post by: OSHIROmodels on 03 January 2013, 11:59:30 AM

Well, that's a slow chunk of metal  :D

Love the weathering on the mark IV  8)

Jolly boys day out at the end of June?

cheers

James

Title: Re: Tank Museum Acquires A Replica A7V
Post by: Vanvlak on 03 January 2013, 12:27:45 PM

That was nice! I had never seen the replica MkIV either - must say it's movement is a bit eerie, as you can't see the wheels it appears to slide along. Can't imagine what the first troops up against this must have felt. Probably something like  :o

Title: Re: Tank Museum Acquires A Replica A7V
Post by: Franz_Josef on 03 January 2013, 10:01:10 PM

The Germans referred to "tank panic" for that initial reaction (albeit thats a translation, so I suppose it would have been Panzer panik).

Title: Re: Tank Museum Acquires A Replica A7V
Post by: Bowman on 06 January 2013, 02:23:44 PM

Both tanks are awesome (an over used term that really applies here). Good on the Tank Museum to aquire these. I'm impressed that someone actually builds these replicas.

Title: Re: Tank Museum Acquires A Replica A7V
Post by: carlos marighela on 20 January 2013, 08:23:23 PM

Nice. Do we all know where the last existing  genuine A7V resides?

Title: Re: Tank Museum Acquires A Replica A7V
Post by: Plynkes on 20 January 2013, 08:31:33 PM

That would be Mephisto. I gather that some persons of an Australian persuasion came upon it in the field, and as it didn't seem to belong to anybody they pinched it* and took it home with them to Brizzy.






*I'm saying nothing. Germans should have nailed it down or hung a sign on it, I guess.

Title: Re: Tank Museum Acquires A Replica A7V
Post by: Hammers on 21 January 2013, 02:46:28 PM

Quote from: Plynkes on 20 January 2013, 08:31:33 PM

That would be Mephisto. I gather that some persons of an Australian persuasion came upon it in the field, and as it didn't seem to belong to anybody they pinched it* and took it home with them to Brizzy.






*I'm saying nothing. Germans should have nailed it down or hung a sign on it, I guess.

With Australians around, certainly.

Title: Re: Tank Museum Acquires A Replica A7V
Post by: joekano on 23 January 2013, 09:21:20 PM

Thanks for sharing.  Whenever I finally get a chance to visit the UK, that is one museum I really want to visit.