Stuart Galbraith Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Well it made me laugh anyway. I have a strange sense of humour though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 (edited) nit pick: the monster is just called monster and not Frankentein. Frankenstein was the monster's creator. hence Frankenstein's mosnter. So this is Frankenstein's Tiger then. Interesting that he has started building another Tiger from wrecked hulls. Too bad he had to remove the Tiger from the Panzermuseum for the dumb laws. I guess panzershock is very real with the Bundestag. ​ Edited September 4, 2019 by Panzermann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 5, 2019 Author Share Posted September 5, 2019 I pointed out to a friend how very sad it was Germany didnt have any Tigers anymore. He disagreed. 'Look at what they got up to last time they had them' he said. Sorry, it was kinda funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJ Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Did somebody say tiger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 5, 2019 Author Share Posted September 5, 2019 Ive got a 1-16 scale Tamiya one. I keep meaning to get another one and build it as a Normandy variant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJ Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 No Tiger in my lot though. Got a couple of BT-7s though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 5, 2019 Author Share Posted September 5, 2019 I always fancied an RC one of those, particulary if you could run it without tracks. Well, ive enough grief trying to get my Challenger 2 running again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJ Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 I once fancied getting an RC and checked out some at the local model shop, etc, for options, but there was some fairly heavy domestic opposition. So its been set at only 1/35s since then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 5, 2019 Author Share Posted September 5, 2019 Yeah, its the sensible choice if you havent got much room. Im rapidly finding a C2, Tiger and a Sherman is about all ive got room for myself. I dont run them nearly as much as I should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJ Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Room wasn't the form of domestic opposition But got enough 1/35s to last a good while. Was thinking of getting a Matilda though. Temptation knows how to make the lot bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikel2 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 The thing ended up in Long Island of all places? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Jones Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 No they have a different one, theirs is a t55 based vismod. I had a chance to visit that museum this winter, it's small but interesting. http://museumofamericanarmor.com/a-replica-of-wwiis-most-feared-enemy-tank-arrives-at-the-museum-of-american-armor-as-the-nation-marks-ww-ii-75thanniversary-milestones/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus Becker Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Another Frankentiger we czeched out in 2017 (?). https://i.imgur.com/1ozaJ3B.jpg https://i.imgur.com/RU6tten.jpg https://i.imgur.com/T7V3ClG.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 6, 2019 Author Share Posted September 6, 2019 The Soviets actually built some in the 1970's for the Mosfilm studios, based on T44 chassis. From what ive seen they were about the best Vismods ive seen. Ive no idea if any survives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikel2 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 In 1997 Munster had the APG Tiger I and I had a chance to crawl through it. Where is that tank these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Speaking of Franken tanks, could a Tiger 1 turret fit a panther hull or vis versa? Was any such beast thrown together in the last days of the Reich? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 7, 2019 Author Share Posted September 7, 2019 In the Jentz book, I seem to recall an illustration of a Panther Turret mounted on a Tiger. It was reckoned a 75mm actually gave better antitank performances than an 88mm. It never happened though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inhapi Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 In the Jentz book, I seem to recall an illustration of a Panther Turret mounted on a Tiger. It was reckoned a 75mm actually gave better antitank performances than an 88mm. It never happened though. The Tiger was originally designed for the 75mm L70 in a Panther-like turret. Since the gun/turret was not ready in time, they hastely designed a turret to take the 88 mm gun. Even then it was planned that the second production batch would get the new turret and gun, but given the battlefield reports on the 88mm turret/gun combo and difficulties in developing the 75 mm gun turret, the 88mm became standard for all production. So the 88mm gun was in fact a "zwischenlösung", a fact not many people seem to know... (from Spielberger) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 7, 2019 Author Share Posted September 7, 2019 Yes, I seem to recall the turret was actually mounted on the Porche Tiger, I just cant quite remember if they designed it for that, or the 75mm turret was envisaged as fitting both the Porche and the Henschel design from the start. It does kind of make more sense as a breakthrough tank having the 88mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Estes Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 In October 1941, the Weapons Testing Branch requested Krupp to study a more powerful weapon for the VK 30.01 prototype, to include backfitting the new anti-tank 75-mm PAK L/43 into its turret, whatever the consequences. In the end, the resulting turrets were used for emplacements on the Atlantic Wall. There were also parallel projects (VK 36.01 and VK 65.01), both offered to Henschel. The VK 65.01 was a simple up-armored version of the VK 30.01, on a basis of 80 mm all around, retaining the same 75-mm L/24 turret and weapon. The VK 36.01 took form in June 1940 as an up-gunned VK 30.01, carrying a 10.5-mm L/28 gun turret that was modified almost a year later to the tapered-bore Weapon 0725. Hull armor was 80 mm frontal and 50 mm sides, and a new Maybach 12-cylinder HL174 developing 450 metric hp as its power plant. On June 11, 1941, Krupp was ordered to cancel the 105-mm gun turret in favor of producing six armored turrets fitted with the Weapon 0725. Henschel in turn received contracts for one driving evaluation and six prototype tanks that would carry the new Krupp turrets. The following month, the VK36.01 was cancelled. Only a single VK 36.01 chassis was delivered for testing in March 1942. By then, it had been folded into the new Tiger tank project. On May 26, 1941, Hitler met with both Porsche and Henschel representatives at his Eagle’s Nest and effectively began his four-year direction of the German Army heavy fighting vehicle program. In what was by then a typical specificity in his Führerbefehl, he erased the previous projects and decreed that the German heavy tank must have 100 mm of frontal armor and mount either the Krupp 88-mm tank cannon or the 75-mm Weapon 0725, provided stockpiles of tungsten ore proved sufficient for that weapon’s ammunition (decided in the negative in July 1941). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Speaking of Franken tanks, could a Tiger 1 turret fit a panther hull or vis versa? Was any such beast thrown together in the last days of the Reich? Pretty sure the two tanks had different size turret rings, with the tiger turret ring being larger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogDodger Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Yep: Panther was 1650 mm, Tiger Ausf.E was 1830 mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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