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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 5, 2004 7:20 AM
they didnt use the M113 in Band od Bros or SPR they used the British APC this is based on

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Posted by M1abramsRules on Monday, April 5, 2004 12:05 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by phroosh

I think J-hulk built a "King Tiger" from the battle of the Bulge movie, I can't remember what is was converted from.

Matt


that was a plain old m47 painted up to look like it was german, then they threw it in as a tiger to combat the american tanks which were painted up m47s as well. so jhulk did the german "tiger"
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Posted by beav on Sunday, April 4, 2004 10:21 PM
Oh yeah, they use the M113's for anything on the Panzer 4 chassis...
Phroosh, the "king tiger" is actually an american tank-If you are bored, there is a thread, that you can search for-somewhere around here...

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 4, 2004 4:54 AM
the Jagdpanther was a modified T55 and there was a russian film that used a T44 modified to look like a Tiger
here it is
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 4, 2004 1:22 AM
I think J-hulk built a "King Tiger" from the battle of the Bulge movie, I can't remember what is was converted from.

Matt
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Posted by ILuv3ggs on Sunday, April 4, 2004 1:15 AM
After those movies some have been modified into T-55 chassis ... looks ALOT better, even tho there is the tell-tale gap between the front road wheel and the rest
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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Saturday, April 3, 2004 11:26 PM
The did the same trick in the old Clint Eastwood movie, Kelly's Heroes, T-34 modified to become a Tiger. Someone did the kit in the old Military Modeler magazine.
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Posted by HeavyArty on Saturday, April 3, 2004 9:18 PM
Actually, the Tiger in Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers is a modified T-34. Her is some info from the Bovington, England Tank Museum who creatde them for the movie. http://www.tankmuseum.co.uk/pr-art/pr140998.html and a photo of one of the Tiger vis mods;

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Interesting Coversions??
Posted by beav on Saturday, April 3, 2004 8:26 PM
As we all know, In our modern(we hope it is) age, that ww2 movies are quiet popular in the Box Office-just ask the owners of Saving Private Ryan, and Band of Brothers.
But to create the armor in these movies, it is something else. They use old T-55's, and I think M113's or maybe something else-to make the Tigers, and uh I can't remember what the smaller chassis was for.
It would be fun to do one of these-if you are a scratchbuilder-to take a T55 chassis, and make a Tiger I out of it. You can tell in pics and the movie itself, that the only major T55-esque part of these new hybrid cats is the chassis-also modified, but still retaining "dead" tracks.
Wouldn't this be kind of interesting?

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Steven

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