Russian SUPER Tank or Not?

[Pappa Midnight]

Trawling around the net for new toys I came across this tank from "The Company Who Shall Not Be Named".
It's SUPER expensive but my wife has said that if "I'm a good boy and sell some of my old stuff cluttering up the house" I can have one! :mrgreen:



What do think as a Russian Super Tank?
I was thinking of getting rid of the sponsons and adding some suitable tank-riders and crew.
I don't know about how much use it is to game with but I think it's cool!

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[dadlamassu]

I would have thought it more suitable for the Germans.  A sort of development of the Maus and E-100 concept.

Maybe an E-150?

[Weird WWII]

It's just to 40K for me but I bet if you picked up a modern 1/35 Russian kit like a T80U and do a bit of bashing it would look more Soviet.




But that's just my opinion.
Brian

[Isamu]

Also there are plenty arround in 1:35, if you like a real big one. They are also not this expensive, so you may not have to clean up.  :mrgreen:

[pnweerar]

I'm actually trying to build a P1000 tank out of a Baneblade and an extra turret. The tank is almost the perfect length to be a P1000, in 15mm.

I think it would work equally well as either a German or a Russian super tank.

[Hammers]

In Weird War I personally think it is important to capture essence of the design of the real tanks and armour. I always thought the GW stuff looked like big toys with a smidgen of WWI tanks taken several steps further. So, no, I don't think it works as a Josef Stalin IV.

[fastolfrus]

Looks too Germanic.

Might be better cannibalising some cheap 1/35-1/48 kits of Vietnam/modern US stuff.

[white knight]

Yeah. I agree trying to convert one from a 1/35 model makes sense.
It's a nice model, but why pay that much for something you're going to have to convert anyway?

[PeteMurray]

I agree with everyone else - buy a cheap 1:35 kit and convert that. The GW stuff is too baroque to be Soviet. If you look at the iconic late war big-gun Soviet stuff, they consist of:

1. A T-34 chassis
2. THE PEOPLE'S TRIUMPHANT PROGRESSIVE CANNON.
3. Two drums of extra gas sitting on the engine deck.

The armor is slab-sided, and the rest of the T-34 heritage comes through in spades. There's nothing fancy about it - it's not trying to be anything other than TPTPG and a chassis to move it around in.

Trumpeter makes a dandy T-54/55 which would work an absolute charm. You could doll it up with all sorts of stuff, but it's still classic Soviet armor.

Edit for T-80 love: The T-80 is a Soviet armor player's dream tank. Suppose you're playing the classic Fulda Gap scenario, and you're up against a bunch of Leo 2s and early Abrams. With turbines screaming, you roll the 2nd Guards over the hills with a tank that moves like an AMX-30 and hits like a ton of bricks. Forget "quantity has a quality of its own" - the T-80 is a fine piece of work and will go toe-to-toe with the best NATO/western tanks there are. And it'll go through M60A3s or (god forbid) M48A5s like a fat lady through cake.

Just don't outrun your air cover if the Americans are sitting on some A-10s.

[Hammers]

You forgot the extra cannon turret:
T-100 variants:






Where the Germans just built Big Tanks the Soviets came close to building H.G. Wells-looking land ships.

[Plynkes]

Doesn't really scream out Weird War Two to me, but I still like those Forgeworld Fabergé eggs. That one has sponsons, so I am obliged to like it.

Never going to buy anything from them, but I like their stuff. Especially the Death Corps of Krieg, because they are just so Great War.

[Commander Vyper]

What have I told you about looking at forgeworld...you know you'll go blind!



Also Fall of libery's getting to you isn't it with the double barrelled uber panzers! So go German rather than Ruskie!!!

This is on the Work in Progress site, bog standard Baneblade but with a nice WWWII appropriate colour scheme?



Bit cheaper and less likely to shatter if dropped!

The Commander.

[fastolfrus]

There's a resin T34 variant on eBay at present.
The description says Egyptian but the picture looks to have a box marked "Chinese".
Seriously impressive large turret on this beast though:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-RESIN-MODERN-RUSSIAN-EGYPTIAN-TANK-DESTROYER-PROJETC_W0QQitemZ350019526190QQihZ022QQcategoryZ1189QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[revford]

The Forge World tank is absolutely bonkers looking , I love it as a 40K machine, but I'm not sure about it for Weird War.

I especially love the little twin cannons under the twin giant super death cannons.  In that way it does have something of the T-100 variants that Hammers posted.

All that said, Weird War is supposed to be Weird.  If it works for you, go for it.

I'd swing from the yardarm if my Wife caught me spending that much on toys, so well done there.  

[Big Guy]

It looks like the Russian super heavy tank from Command & Conquer 2.  A German Baneblade... now thats worth thinking about :twisted: