1945A Video

[ogryn]

WOW, well done but....
I am guessing this was not done by an American as they made the US Military look like complete bumbling idiots that shoot pistols at tanks?
Come on..............really???
I would think US troops in WWII (and Sgts at that) would know not to bother.
It gets a lame on the writing, and an awesome for concept and fx.

[commissarmoody]

Yeah, come daylight there's going to be half the Allied tactical air force looking for this thing! Laser/heat-ray or not, it's going to be scrap metal an hour or so after daybreak...

that's what I was thinking, actually. Nice high profile, ever thing under the sun would be shooting missiles at it, not to forget the huge arty regiments that could bracketed the whole grid with 1000s of Lb of explosives.
And don't worry about the guys acting dumb orgyan, it was directed by civ's to look cool for them self's and there friends.... but I have seen natinal guard guys act like that before so I cant really say much about it not being to accurate 

[Viper]

That was awesome.

Depending on the effective range, and the turning speed, of the laser it might not be so vulnerable to aircraft. Artillery would still be a bit of a problem, but then it tended to be bad for any target, and this all assumes there's only one of the things.

Firing small arms at a tank does seem stupid till you notice that the commanders viewing window didn't have any glass or anything, sure it might not do any damage but it makes the spotters, drivers and such keep their heads down a little just incase there's a lucky shot through the opening.

Why can't hollywood show even an ounce of this kind of creativity these days.
 

[commissarmoody]

Becase its hollywood, if they did some thing diffrant people might not like it and then they might not paid there big fat checks thats why. 

[Viper]

Damn capitalism driving genuine creativity underground.
 

[scribe03]

WHERE IS PART 2?!

[answer_is_42]

This is cool. The maker's website is pretty awesome, too. Some damned good models there.

Edit; This from his site:

1945A is a presentation I made with George Edelman about an alternate timeline where the Nazi's unveil all sorts of futuristic sci-fi technology at the end of WWII, turning the tides in their favor. It's essentially what 5 minutes of the feature film could look like. It was made for a budget of less than $2000. Most of the costumes were made by me for a previous project. We only had five helmets to share between actors, so I had to repaint the different markings between shoot days. Weapons like the Browning .30 caliber machine gun were made from plastic sheeting. I rigged a motor/gear system inside which moved the charging handle/bolt back and forth when the trigger was pulled. All of the tanks and vehicles are done with radio-controlled 1:6 scale models, shot at 48 frames per second. I wanted the project to have a very tangible, non-CGI feel to it. The Nazi "Spider" tank was a custom made puppet.

"Weapons like the Browning .30 caliber machine gun were made from plastic sheeting."
Plastic sheeting?!

[Jakar Nilson]

Kudos to the special effects guys.

No kudos for the GIs for failing to call in the artillery ASAP...

[P_Clapham]

I had forgotten that I had posted this.  Scratch building this would be a near Weird WWII project.  Creating the walker and a few other weird tech items would be best in one of the smaller scales I think.  20mm or 15mm perhaps?