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Tank Crashing through wall, help please!

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Tank Crashing through wall, help please!
Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Monday, October 9, 2006 2:56 PM
Ok, so I recently bought the old Tamiya Panzer II, and put it in a diorama, but never used the figures since they were Afrika Korps, and my setting was not.  Im on a low budget, so I wanted to use them on something, and I also have been really wanting to build a British Churchill tank.  So the diorama I am planning will be based either in Tunisia or the second battle of El Alemain.  Basically the Churchill will be crashing through one of those ever so common North African mud/brick walls, sort of "rearing up" as it smashes up and over the mound of rubble it is creating, with its front end up in the air, since it is driving up and over sort of.  Heres where the figures come in.  Three have been modeled to look as if they have grabbed their weapons and are running, which is just what they will be doing.  The last, is sort of in a "holding his ground" stance, with his mp40 pointed.  I will make sure I model  his head so it looks as if he is looking up.  The idea will be to make him look as if he is just panic stricken, and too frozen with terror to do anything but stare at the monstrosity rearing up, literally almost on top of him as it comes through the wall, while his friends abandon him and dash for cover.  So, I searched for ever and beleive it or not found no pictures of tanks crashing through walls.  Im looking specifically for pictures of those mud/brick, sand/clay walls in Africa being broken, but even pictures of tanks going through wooden or brick walls would be helpful.  even better would be pictures of a diorama at all similar to a piece of armor breaking, driving or blasting through a wall.  finally, any ideas would be great.
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Posted by Kykeon on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:17 AM
While busting through walls and buildings may look cool in Hollywood flicks and propaganda movies, but it's a good way to throw a track, get debris jammed in the turret ring, trash out your weapons, foul your optics and vision blocks, become stuck or high-centered and expose your thin underbelly armor to enemy anti-tank gunners.......generally not a good idea.
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Posted by oleander13 on Monday, October 23, 2006 5:36 PM

You could always take the same approach except have the tank just coming over the crest of a small hill...that way you can still keep your ideas with the figures except it will be a bit more plausible.

 

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Posted by deattilio on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:32 PM

Does this help at all? Fallujah Iraq 2004, more effective than kicking down doors.

 

 

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Posted by Mikeym_us on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 2:23 PM
is that the LVTP7 with the Up Gunned Turret? Still you would have the same problem with getting stuck right?

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Posted by deattilio on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:45 AM
Thats an AAVP7A1 RAM/RS w/UGWS and EAAK. We never had a problem getting stuck, most the time we would accidentally knock over walls just maneuvering through the city. Being in the vehicle you don't even feel it, just a large dust plume, or look back and realize the scenery has slightly changed.

 

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Posted by Mikeym_us on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:27 PM
eh LVTP7 AAVP7 same Track (otherwise called by the Tread heads a tank) different name new look. You do realise thats why you never maneuver a Track in a confined space. Can a tank withstand a multi-story building dropping on it?

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Posted by deattilio on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:35 PM

Unfortunately the modern battlefield doesn't allow the option of not taking armor into the streets. As long as it is employed properly with infantry support and each vehicle providing mutual supporting fires, it is a tad unnerving but accomplishes the mission successfully.

About the only concern with the house rubble was keeping it from getting caught in and damaging the running gear, primarily the idler wheels and sprockets.

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