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Offline Pappa Midnight

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« on: April 02, 2008, 08:44:22 PM »
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.

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Offline marrony

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« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2008, 08:53:06 PM »
Blimey charlie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2008, 09:13:11 PM »
Do you have a magic bits box of creating whatever you want?  8)
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« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2008, 12:48:00 AM »
I would've rather seen one that was styled after the designs for the german landship.
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Offline Chairface

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« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2008, 03:26:00 AM »
Talk about Blitzkrieg!

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« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2008, 10:02:35 AM »
Can't wait to see it painted!!  :love:
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« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2008, 10:05:00 AM »
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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« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2008, 10:10:11 AM »
Quote from: "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!  :)


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« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2008, 03:17:49 PM »
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:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
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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« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2008, 04:25:50 PM »
Quote from: "Pappa Midnight"
NEVER throw out un-used bits of kits ( although my missus would argue the point about the cluttered spare room!!)


Yours too, eh??  :lol:

Offline Vanvlak

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« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2008, 04:51:29 PM »
Very nice Papp  8)  8)
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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!

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« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2008, 05:56:36 PM »
Pappa what rules do you use for your vehicles?
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« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2008, 06:11:53 PM »
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.

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Offline marrony

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« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2008, 07:27:33 PM »
What kind of colour scheme are you contemplating??? Russian front or more tradtional panzer colours?I reckon it would look excellent either way.

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« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2008, 07:53:35 PM »
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

 

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