German Super Heavy Tank...WIP.....NEW PICS ADDED

[Pappa Midnight]

Just started putting together a Weird War German Super heavy Tank.
The chassis is a 1:35 Panther and the turret is of a GW Baneblade. The guns are from my "Bits Box".
As you can see it will be quite a big beasty!!!



I will post pics as I go.

Regards
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[marrony]

Blimey charlie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[twrchtrwyth]

Do you have a magic bits box of creating whatever you want?  

[wolfgangbrooks]

I would've rather seen one that was styled after the designs for the german landship.

[Chairface]

Talk about Blitzkrieg!

[KeyanSark]

Can't wait to see it painted!!  :love:

[Plynkes]

Only trouble is the time between shots. You fire the guns and then a recovery crew have to go and fetch the turret from that field half a mile behind the tank, and then return and fix it back onto hull. And then you still have to reload it!  

[KeyanSark]

Only trouble is the time between shots. You fire the guns and then a recovery crew have to go and fetch the turret from that field half a mile behind the tank, and then return and fix it back onto hull. And then you still have to reload it!  

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[Pappa Midnight]

Thanks for the comments!

twrchtrwyth: The "Secret" to a good bits box is NEVER throw out un-used bits of kits ( although my missus would argue the point about the cluttered spare room!!)

wolfgangbrooks: I would love to build a landship ( possibly a future project) but space tends to dictate what I make, as well as how it would be used on a 6'X4' table!

Plynkes:  ::  ::  ::
Firing both guns would cause LOT of recoil! I was thinking that if one gun fired a split second after the first, the shell would pass through the mangled armor caused by the first shot, destroying the target.
........The you could go and recover the turret......... :mrgreen:

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[KeyanSark]

NEVER throw out un-used bits of kits ( although my missus would argue the point about the cluttered spare room!!)

Yours too, eh??  ::

[Vanvlak]

Very nice Papp    
Paint it! Paint it!

Incidentally, I'd once tackled a similar project - or rather, I still have to, as only the turret is done. It's in 1:35 scale, and I went for something a little smaller  - a Pz II!

[slobberblood]

Pappa what rules do you use for your vehicles?

[Weird WWII]

Pappa you gotta put some zimmerite  on that bad boy!  That would really give a cool effect because I could just envision desperate tank hunters trying to close assault that bad boy with sticky and magnetic mines after their bazookas or at guns bounce off it's armor.

Brian

[marrony]

What kind of colour scheme are you contemplating??? Russian front or more tradtional panzer colours?I reckon it would look excellent either way.

[Weird WWII]

You could always say they are rigid recoilless guns.  I'm sure that bad boy could take it.  I believe the Germans were developing a recoilless for the Hetzer in the later days of the war so they could mount a larger gun on it's smaller chassis.

Brian