A 'little' model of PzKpfw VI "Tiger"

Nice

One guy: Hey guys, let's make a tank model to scale.

Other guys: Okay.

Only in russia.

Question is why havn't we all joined the motherland?

Seems legit if you ask me.

I think its pretty cool.

***Stops building his 1/700 scale battleships in shame***

I remember building a model of the Army's Patton tank. A lot heavier than the Shermans and able to take on the Panzer and Tiger tanks. Those monsters were too heavy and cumbersome but they packed quite a wallop.

That's awesome. 

Uvah....the M46 managed to make it to Korea....it wasn't around in WW2....;)

Oopss!! Major Oops!

Then what one replaced the Sherman? I always get those two confused.

No...M26 Pershing replaced the Sherman.... the 46 replaced that.

BTW...hint...the designation numbers by then related to design date..... 46..47..48... the Ruskies weren't quite so 'accurate'...64...72...80.....all a bit out of whack, really...;)

Thanks for the refresher Jafo. Been too long since I did one of them. Too bad they're so expensive today.

I wonder what this one cost them....I think I'd hate to pay for even just the Oxy cost....;p

Probably a hefty sum. Hunting down all the parts alone would put a huge dent in this ones pocket.

By the looks of it, they made plenty of parts from scratch! I'm sure they must have had their hands on aoriginal to get measurements, or plans or something!
What a mammoth undertaking!

In either case, this indeed would not have been cheap!

What an accomplishment!!  Wow!

That´s nothing ! When I was a kid I had all the sci-fi spaceship-Models from "Airfix", "Revell" and the likes + the ones  in metal from "Dinky toys" !! .......

But I must say this was quite cool as well Jafo  

I tended to shy away from Revell. Took more time just cleaning the parts of all that flash and when you're dealing with small parts it can be a royal pain. Tamiya was one of the best though. I once built a Formula One racer. It had four wheels up front and the detail was truly awesome. It had all the links and whatnot for four wheel steering up front that actually worked. I won't even go into the engine detail.

LOL ! Yeah, there were a lot of "extra shit" on the pieces, but I got them all together......eventually.  lmao

I don´t think we had Tamiya in Sweden back then.

That'd be a Tyrrell ....and it was a flop ...;)

Eventually I put the Whole collection in our Cellar/basement storageroom in our apartmentbuilding like a little exhibition...

-Some weeks later there were some Drugaddicts breaking in and Crushed them all...probably Jumped on them, pissed off as there were nothing of "Value" for them there...

Now I can make my own in Carrara 8 though

My best was a collection planes from the Wright Bros. Kittyhawk up to Jafo's favorite, the F-105. They were 72nd. scale and at one time I had 100 of them hanging from the ceiling in my room. There were Russian, Japanese, German, Italian, British, French, American. Just about all models. Then I went on to building the big 32nd. scale. I had three favorites...ME-109...P-51...and a FA-18 Hornet. That I modified the shit out of.

And in the game I've been playing, I actually drive this tank. And then people like this go out and build a real one. I'm gonna go cry in a corner now

I didn't have that many, mainly cause i focused on bombers. I had at one time an enitre wing of B-52's hanging, with no room for any else, except a lone F-4D i snuck in there. (Phantom being one of my favs)

Loved building stangs, only slightly more than i loved building P-47's!

I still build, i have the british V bombers sitting here looking at me waiting to be painted.



Uh-huh...did that the moment my fellow Aussie posted this little gem.

 

This is a fun hobby, but hardly unique.  I went to a reenactment of an Okinawa assault on a Japanese pillbox, and they had an operational Stuart tank, halftrack, and 60mm mortar.  But none of that held a candle to the flamethrower--quite literally.  Nothing was nearly as impressive as the guy spraying a can of whoop-a** on the pillbox.  Only thing missing were the screaming Japs running out of the pillbox alight--who incidentally the Japs looked strangely an awful lot like Mexicans, by the way.  

 

And right down the road from me we have a WW2 commemorative air force.  They do air shows flying a B-17, B-24, Hellcat, and a Zero.  However, if anyone builds & flies a replica of a C-7 or C-17, I'll be impressed.

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Too much. No sensitivity?