Is this tank anything?

[gloriousbattle]

http://fitz.jsr.com/roleplay/wargaming/indianajonestank.html

My rule about VSF (in as much as I have one) is that, if it was real, it isn't VSF.  Not a great rule, but its mine and I'm sticking to it.

Anyway, this looks like a nice VSF-y tank, with lots of gun ports and rivets, but does it represent a real vehicle?  The guy who put up the web page seems to think not, but also doesn't seem very sure.

[Tom Reed]

Well it looks to me like this vehicle consists of the hull of a WWI British Male tank and the turret of one of the WWII British tanks.

[jamesmanto]

No. It's sort of mashup between a WW1 Mk IV male and a WW2 Churchill.

For real interwar British tanks take a gander at Copplestone Castings "Back of Beyond" range of tanks, such as the Vickers MkII Medium and the Vickers Independant heavy.

James

[carlos marighela]

Actually it's more of a mash up of a MkVIII Liberty with a Hollywood turret. Remove the turret, build a new superstucture and with a  little work you  will have a passable MKVIII.

http://members.fortunecity.com/rwbrown1942//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/mkviii.gif

The US had about 100 of the things between the wars, backbone of their tank force up until the early 1930s.

[gloriousbattle]

Actually it's more of a mash up of a MkVIII Liberty with a Hollywood turret. Remove the turret, build a new superstucture and with a  little work you  will have a passable MKVIII.

http://members.fortunecity.com/rwbrown1942//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/mkviii.gif

The US had about 100 of the things between the wars, backbone of their tank force up until the early 1930s.

I get a dead link there.

[joroas]

The original is in the backlot of Universal Studios in Orlando...........

[jamesmanto]

Yeah the link is a dead end but Google Images for "MkVIII Liberty tank" and you get loads. Nifty looking tank.

And I'd have to admit is probably a source of inspiration for the Last Crusade tank.

[wolfgangbrooks]

"My rule about VSF (in as much as I have one) is that, if it was real, it isn't VSF.  Not a great rule, but its mine and I'm sticking to it."

Considering the real stuff is 100% weirder and better looking than the rivet boxes most minis gamers associate with VSF that's a silly rule to have.

http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/russian-tsar-tank.jpg

Can you honestly say no to stuff like this? Or to the idea that one of the first modern tank prototypes was electric? Or that an (fortunately/unfortunately) underpowered prototype rail-gun was made in 1915 or there abouts?

Look at real vehicles and technology history, people will think you're making it up.

[gloriousbattle]

http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/russian-tsar-tank.jpg

Can you honestly say no to stuff like this?

It's my rule, but rules are made to be broken.