Gorgeous Miyazaki Tank diorama

[PeteMurray]

http://www.tasca-modellismo.com/seihin/akuyaku/araki/araki.html

A gorgeous diorama of the "No. 1 Enemy" tank - the Miyazaki tank with the piggy crew that we all love and cherish and wish to own seventy copies of.

Lots of fun little details to look for: Flying bricks off the building, a water fountain, and a piggy infantryman in pickelhaub falling over. Also an armored car.

Did I mention I love this tank?

[DFlynSqrl]

Wow, that looks fantastic.  I love the Piggy falling over onto his back too.  Like you said, there are a lot of nice little touches that make this look great.

[Vanvlak]

Lovely 
Still haven;t started on mine.

[DRDHauser]

Very pricy on ebay. Cool rendition though.

[PeteMurray]

In a perfect world, Dragon would do this kit as a prepaint. I would buy a case of them.

[DRDHauser]

This is a little cheaper:

http://www.monstersinmotion.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/24_95/products_id/7712

Kinda cool.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

yeah, the most cool Back of Beyond thing ever made, a pig in an armoured car 

[PeteMurray]

Kinda cool.

It's no Miyazaki tank, though.

[Admiral Benbow]

Absolutely brilliant diorama! Love it! 

Scanning Ebay for this thing for a long time, always goes to someone else for too much money ...

[commissarmoody]

that looks amazining!

[Westfalia Chris]

Dang. I knew I should have bought it in 2005 when I saw it at Intermodellbau fair for 40 Euros.

[Auton]

Looks similar to the vehicle that was used as the Bauhaus Grizzly tank in Target's Warzone game!

[Westfalia Chris]

Looks similar to the vehicle that was used as the Bauhaus Grizzly tank in Target's Warzone game!

That´s because the Swedish Mutant Chronicles guys blatantly ripped off quite a number of Miyazaki designs, not to mention historical ones. The pictured tank was built by Jean-Jaques Chaboissier from the rather basic Armorcast kit which had been issued ca. 1997 and was a taken straightly, if a bit poorly from the designs found in the Bauhaus sourcebook for the MCRPG.