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Posted by SLW 45 on Sunday, May 15, 2011 12:40 PM

Those are wild make for some great builds

                 

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Sunday, May 15, 2011 12:14 PM

The concept tank by Aaron Beck reminds me of Oddball's Sherman tank.

Can't help wonder if the guy is a fan of the movie Kelly's Heroes.....

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  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Sunday, May 15, 2011 12:10 PM

Many of them are too big to deploy. Unless you are fighting on a homeland, it's too big to get to the fight via normal methods of transportation.

Some of the towering ones would be missile magnets. Such a giant vehicle would be targeted from miles away by ground and air launched anti-tank guided missiles.

Lots of close up defensive guns. Most tankers like to engage and destroy the enemy from the maximum range possible. Seems like they were designed to fight enemy heavy armor, but have a lot of firepower to defeat close in infantry support.

And shot traps, lots of shot traps on many designs.

Great stuff though. I admire their work.

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Posted by T26E4 on Sunday, May 15, 2011 7:25 AM

Rather than "conceptual" artwork, I'd say it's more rightly named "fantasy" art work -- which is 100% fine and really cool looking.  When I think "conceptual", i think of things grounded in engineering realities and utility.

And I can't imagine any battle tank needing double track configuration -- if terrain were that rough, you wouldn't want an MBT traveling over it anyway.

 

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Posted by TomZ2 on Saturday, May 14, 2011 3:53 PM

Interesting. I notice that about half use a split track configuration. I can see that it LOOKS good, but I have to wonder how well it would WORK. Anyone aware of any real world analogs? The nearest I can come up with are those wheel-to-track SUV conversions.

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Posted by tigerman on Saturday, May 14, 2011 1:04 PM

Some real talent for design.

   http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y269/wing_nut_5o/PANZERJAGERGB.jpg

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Posted by MAJ Mike on Saturday, May 14, 2011 8:24 AM

I bookmarked that site doubleplusquick.

Thanks for sharing.

 

 

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Posted by SuppressionFire on Saturday, May 14, 2011 8:22 AM

Cool stuff indeed!

Tanks for the link,

Who knows maybe some of the concepts will hit a contest table in the future, AM or even main stream manufactures.

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Posted by TD4438 on Saturday, May 14, 2011 8:15 AM

Gotta admit there is some seriously cool stuff there.I really dig #2 and #4.

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Conceptual Tank Art
Posted by aardvark1917 on Friday, May 13, 2011 11:04 PM

Some very wild stuff that would make for a really exotic collection if anyone put some time building them.

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