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'Panzer '46' ... E.10, E.50, E.75, E.100, etc.

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#30
September 13, 2010, 11:23:47 AM
'Roco Minitanks' models from the late 1960's of the SWS. armoured half track fitted with 60cm 'Uhu' type infra red searchlight and 'Little Wurtzburg' type radar unit
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#31
September 13, 2010, 05:00:52 PM
Quote from: TsrJoe on September 13, 2010, 10:47:26 AM
the P.1500 80cm 'Monster' (mobile 'Dora') weighing a conservative 1500 tons this was purely a design thought study and was never seen as a serious design proposal. Along with the P.1000 'Ratte' of around 1000 tons and mounting two 280mm guns in a naval turret (it was designed to utilise turrets from the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau warships!) these designs were seen as an ultimate extrapolation in 'mobile' bombardment artillery

I've said it beforeand I'll say it again. There's something very Freudian about the Nazi obsession with bigger and bigger guns, almost as though they were trying to make up for deficiencies elsewhere...
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#32
September 29, 2010, 04:00:18 PM Last Edit: October 02, 2010, 02:55:26 AM by TsrJoe
'Blast Models' resin '1946 German tank crew' really neatly moulded figures with cutaway helmets for headphones, splinter proof jackets and one of the crew carrying ir. scope fitted binoculars (the modified gas mask canister carrying the batteries for the scope!)

http://www.phpshopxml.com/blamod.shop/CID/ac21ad9f7a1c02f8d243e3cd5745956f/function/itemPageDisplay/shopItemCode/BL35126F
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#33
September 29, 2010, 04:10:27 PM
'Dust Models', intended as scifi figures to go with a 'robot' range of kits, a few of the resin items are ideal as 'Panzer '46' crew

D36021 WWII Axis Tank Commander in custom winter uniform "Manfred" (resin)
D35026 WWII German Tank Commander in winter uniform  ''Helmut'' (resin)

http://shop.afvmodeller.com/customer/home.php?cat=407

as well as a set of injection moulded fictional 'German Raketentruppen' with rocket backpacks and a couple of 'plausible' looking 'M.60' and 'ATGW.' type weapons

D35001 - German Raketentruppen (plastic) #17848

http://shop.afvmodeller.com/customer/product.php?productid=17848&cat=407&page=1
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ChernayaAkula

#34
September 29, 2010, 07:51:32 PM
Those Blast figures look really nice! :thumbsup: Thanks for the heads-up!

Great Wall does a pretty neat set including two IR night sights. Might come in handy for a Panzer '46!

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#35
October 01, 2010, 07:47:13 AM
'Hobbyboss' kit of VK1602 Leopard tank project (looking like a small Panther!) fitted with Puma type turret

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#36
October 06, 2010, 03:55:25 AM Last Edit: September 21, 2011, 05:59:39 AM by TsrJoe
Krupp 12.8cm. Grille 15 Waffentrager (based upon a photograph of the mockup)
1/35 scale scratchbuilt model by Sidney Ellerington
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#37
October 14, 2010, 12:56:58 PM
upcoming releases ... 'Hobbyboss' kits of VK45.02(PH) and VK.45.02(PV) Porsche tank projects

http://www.hlj.com/shows/ths10/fnmothers.html
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#38
April 26, 2012, 05:37:07 AM
upcoming German tank project releases ... 'Amusing Hobby'  :wub:

http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/newkitnews/amusinghobby.html
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#39
April 26, 2012, 09:31:03 AM
The VK3002 looks like a German version of the T34?!?

tt43.

rickshaw

#40
April 26, 2012, 05:30:53 PM
Quote from: tanktastic43 on April 26, 2012, 09:31:03 AM
The VK3002 looks like a German version of the T34?!?

tt43.

It was.  The Panther was intended to be a counter to the T34 which was superior to the standard medium at the time the Panzer IV.  VK3002 however was too "non-German" in its approach - it had taken Guderian's advice "put the T34 into production" literally, with a few Germanic changes but still kept the essential simplicity of the design.  It lost out to the competing design - which became the Panther as we know it - which was thoroughly Germanic in its design - big, complex and expensive to build.  If the Germans had stuck with the VK3002, they might have had a chance when the strategic bombing campaign started affecting their ability to produce armoured vehicles (primarily by destroying the transport system).   The VK3002 used leafsprings for its suspension, had the driver's compartment as part of the fighting compartment and used a diesel engine.  The armour was of flat plates which were interlocked for strength (the only design element the two competing designs shared).  It used non-interleaved roadwheels.  It was smaller and simpler to build.   The use of leafsprings was particularly important - much cheaper and easier to manufacture and repair in the field.  The non-interleaved roadwheels would also have been a winner on the Russian Front where mud and packed snow often jammed the interleaved wheels on the RL Panther.
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#41
April 26, 2012, 10:13:09 PM
Quote from: TsrJoe on April 26, 2012, 05:37:07 AM
upcoming German tank project releases ... 'Amusing Hobby'  :wub:

http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/newkitnews/amusinghobby.html

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#42
May 04, 2012, 01:02:10 AM
I had thought it was the engine, where Germans thought they couldn't copy or service the diesel for some reason. Otherwise the T-34 hull had been a serious contender. Coming to think of it Americans refused to build it as well, apparently for the same exact reasons, it would be more profitable to use their own designs.

raafif

#43
May 04, 2012, 04:44:27 PM
Quote from: tahsin on May 04, 2012, 01:02:10 AM
it would be more profitable to use their own designs.

Don't think it was "more profitable".  With the T-34 the US Army preferred their own "in house"-thinking designs no matter how inferior they were in reality.  Germany's high command had the same blindness until forced by circumstances to rethink.

With the Australian Sentinel Tank, which used modified Grant suspension components/engine, it was decided that it would be too much disruption to existing factories to switch from the early Sherman to the Sentinel - even tho the Sentinel was superior in every way.
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#44
May 04, 2012, 06:43:18 PM
Are you suggesting that the US was thinking of building the Sentinel?
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