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In response to Karl's recent AAF Tank Museum photos here's a bunch of mine.
Link to Photobucket
I was to too lazy to label anything, they're tossed in willy-nilly. Anyone is welcome to copy any of them for their own use, the hardware isn't mine so I have no claim on the photos.
AAF Tank Museum, Danville, Virginia - most of the inside photos
An AFV show in Northern Virginia (I can't remember the name) - most of the vehicles outside
The battleship USS Alabama, Mobile Alabama- most of the vehicles on the concrete slabs
These are from the Northern Virginia show - wish I could remember the name since it's a great show and well worth attending.
Awesome Hellcat
Beautiful Valentine
And you thought the German re-enactors were intense...
Cold War Armour
Twenty-five years ago I never thought I'd be this close to a Soviet tank
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
nice pics,i like that T-34/85
Valentine
Thanks guys,
And there are more photos of the above at the link including the sides and rear (almost 200 photos total).
I was surprised at the amount of British hardware at the northern Va show. And they had a Hetzer they'd gotten from who knows where, I don't think I have a photo of it though
What is this beast? Any kits out there? Not too many wheels, big track links, what is there not to like?
Thanks for the pictures, great stuff!
mgh What is this beast? Any kits out there? Not too many wheels, big track links, what is there not to like? Thanks for the pictures, great stuff!
That weird little tank looks like a French Renault FT-17. Believe it or not, a very influential tank design of its day. It was the first tank with a separate, rotating turret.
Just one of the cool WWI that eventually the bigger manufacturers should be getting around to manufacturing in plastic, and in good quality! (HINT, HINT!!!)
MGH: She's a M1917 6 ton tank- an American license built version of the French Renault FT-17 from the First World War. This was the first official American tank. These photos were from the Virginia War Museum in Newport News.
I found a video clip here of R. Lee Ermy driving the French version.
RPM makes a 1/72nd version
But only makes the French version in 1/35th, there are differences between the two vehicles but you could probably convert one over with a bit of work.
Karl: lol, we posted at the same time- thanks for the help!
Outstanding video! What a hoot watching that guy.
Thanks for that.
Italeri supposedly has an FT-17 on the drawing board for 2013...so could get interesting for the WWI and inter-war armor fans!
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wbill76 Italeri supposedly has an FT-17 on the drawing board for 2013...so could get interesting for the WWI and inter-war armor fans!
That's good news, I just read a review of the RPM 1/35 kit, and the person really did not like it! Said the instructions were awful, lots of tiny pieces, just a real PIA.
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Italeri has anounced a new tool FT-17 and Master Box is starting to come out with World War One figures. I can see a number of diorama possabilities.
Gamera RPM makes a 1/72nd version But only makes the French version in 1/35th, there are differences between the two vehicles but you could probably convert one over with a bit of work.
RPM sells both the 1/72 scale and 1/35 scale FT kits in about a dozen different boxes. There's the round turret, cannon armed, chemical (smoke screening), captured WW2 German, Japanese version (Ko-Gata), US 1917 6 ton version, and several more.
Yes, it is a very difficult kit to assemble. I dare say that the real tank is probably easier to construct than the kits. All the RPM kits are virtually identical with turret, decals and armament options being the main difference. They probably could have saved us a bunch of money by producing a 10-in-1 kit. They also sell individual track links for it with four pieces to each link (ouch).
Aber makes a comprehensive photo etch set for the Ft-17 that adds an interior as well as an additional set that gives you a riveted turret. There's also an Aber PE track set for the completely insane too.
The US version was quite different than the French version since it was a license built version using Imperial measurements vs. metrics and US engine and weapons and not a direct carbon copy like other nations. But the RPM kit of the US version is exactly the same as any other one they produce.
Thanks Rob, I read about the difference between the metric and imperial systems but wasn't sure it would make any huge obvious differences in the exterior appearance.
But I guess unless Italeri does come out with a kit the RPM version is the only game in town...
Awesome Cliff. I love the Valentine and thanks for the photo of the T-34 with a guy next to it. It makes the actual vehicle look somewhat small to me, considering the big gun. I too have been blessed to see one at the museum in Mcminnville Oregon.
Eric
Rumor has it Mr. Tamiya himself was in a photo of one with a grin on his face, so there's always hope.
Major differences between US and French versions was the wooden drive wheel of the French vs. the steel wheel of the US (Aber's set addresses this issue). Also because of the different engines, the upper deck and exhaust differ as well.
Thanks again Rob for the help. I found some of the differences with a web search but wasn't aware that RPM had pretty much simply repackaged the same kit for each version.
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