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Offline Westfalia Chris

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« Reply #15 on: April 03, 2008, 08:07:16 PM »
I´d never have thought this combination to work, but it does!

Those guns are excellent. I love those perforated muzzle brakes. Did you sand off the rivets from the BB turret?

Not sure about the Zimmerit thing Brian suggested. While I really love the look of it, I always thought it looks a bit strange on something of "Landkreuzer" scale. I´d prefer a smooth, possibly ceramic look to it. Or a cast-steel surface. I guess it would have a platoon of Panzerkampfanzüge to support it against pesky infantry, anyway. :lol:

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« Reply #16 on: April 03, 2008, 11:44:47 PM »
Thanks for the feedback!
I haven't managed to do any more to it today but I'll get stuck in over the weekend.

The Pz II would still look impressive at 1:35 scale compared to 28mm minis. Looks like a good start with the turret!

Rules wise, I'm still waiting for the "Full Version" of the Secrets of the Third Reich in order to field some of the bigger beasties. I am working on stats for the "Rules of Engagement" set of rules at the moment ( including walkers) although the rule-set is more suited for platoon sized engagements.

I had thought about Zimmerit with this one ( it being such an obvious target for infantry). I will build it up some more and see what it's going to look like before I decide.

Colour-wise I will probably go for my "traditional" dark yellow as it fits with the rest of my stuff. Saying that, I got given an airbrush so I may have a go at some camo.

The guns are the only suitably large ones I had at hand ( spares from my "Dust Games" Gunther kit). I was going to try to get hold of a couple of 1:35 scale 88's but I thought that these would look more "Weird War" rather than just up-scaling existing weapons.

Yes Chris, I HAD TO sand off those rivets! They looked way out of place on what is supposed to be a WW2 tank!!!

Thank you all for you interest.
I will post some more WIP pictures as I go.

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Offline Westfalia Chris

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« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2008, 05:52:20 AM »
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Yes Chris, I HAD TO sand off those rivets! They looked way out of place on what is supposed to be a WW2 tank!!!


Good riddance, I say! Now, I´m an infamous rivethead, but those on the Baneblade are simply ridiculously huge.

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« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2008, 05:09:25 PM »
i think zimmeritt would look out of place on this vehicle, i would go with the look of the 'maus' tank, and alot of late war tanks didnt even have zim on them.

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« Reply #19 on: April 06, 2008, 03:08:48 AM »
The Germans did indeed have a landship design (two in fact). The one that most looks like this (that I'm using a GW kit to build as well) is the P1000 Landkreuzer.

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« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2008, 01:36:45 PM »
Quote from: "pnweerar"
The Germans did indeed have a landship design (two in fact). The one that most looks like this (that I'm using a GW kit to build as well) is the P1000 Landkreuzer.


That's where I got the idea for the Twin Guns................Unfortunately I haven't got the table space or materials to make one "Exactly" like the P1000 ( She would have been HUGE!!!!!!!!!), mine's about Maus scale.
I would love to see how you are getting on with yours.

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« Reply #21 on: April 06, 2008, 04:28:49 PM »
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Unfortunately I haven't got the table space or materials to make one "Exactly" like the P1000 ( She would have been HUGE!!!!!!!!!)


Cant agree there, the P1500 defines a new "huge"



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« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2008, 04:36:22 PM »
Just one P1500 would provide the table, scenario and the German side of a game! :lol:
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« Reply #23 on: April 07, 2008, 07:36:48 AM »
My oh my its a wopper.  :o Nice on Pappa :)
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« Reply #24 on: April 07, 2008, 04:11:08 PM »
Ok, I give up! That P1500 is HUGE!
Totally agreee that you could use that beast AS THE TABLE!!!


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My oh my its a wopper.  :o Nice on Pappa :)


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« Reply #25 on: April 07, 2008, 04:58:58 PM »
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Ok, I give up! That P1500 is HUGE!
Totally agreee that you could use that beast AS THE TABLE!!!


Yours still cool ;)

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« Reply #26 on: April 07, 2008, 08:08:16 PM »
As this is a tank related thread, thought you might like to know that the latest edition of Military Modelling has an article on the KV 5 (its a whopper with a 120mm gun in a turret - think super KV2) with 1/35 plans and templates.  Those who are whizzes with photocopiers/scanners should not have too much trouble in rescaling them.
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« Reply #27 on: April 07, 2008, 09:00:34 PM »
More cool pix/artist renditions of the P1000 and P1500 at:

http://www.vincelewis.net/ultratank.html

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« Reply #28 on: April 07, 2008, 11:06:36 PM »
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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.

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Hmmmm...

Venting a recoiless in a tank maybe interesting...

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« Reply #29 on: April 07, 2008, 11:22:07 PM »


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