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strange tiger
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 23, 2006 10:00 PM

i were searching reference photos to my tiger when i found these one. it called my atention, so i opened the full size one, and when i saw it, i realized there is something wrong. is it a tiger?

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 24, 2006 11:21 AM
no it is not tiger .. .I forgot from what panzer is lower body but hull was made for making movie !

cheers
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:11 PM

the tracks can say something. the roadwheels appears to be russian, the germans used a diferent sistem.

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Posted by Chatterer on Saturday, June 24, 2006 6:18 PM
Its a T-34 chassis converted to look like a Tiger,  it was used in Saving Private Ryan and other movies I think.
David
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 24, 2006 10:19 PM
it looks more like t-55 reconverted into tiger
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Posted by Chatterer on Sunday, June 25, 2006 6:32 AM
You got me there, my fault for not looking at the tracks and drive sprocket. Its might be a T-54 also or T-55 its Russian anyway. Thats what I get for not knowing alot of Russian tanks.
David
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 25, 2006 10:08 AM
i knew it by looking the roadwheels, its a simple wheel, not a t34 double wheel. today, a friend will come and analise the photo, he knows a lot of tanks.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 25, 2006 12:01 PM
it is a T 55 reconverted to tiger. the barrel is an original tiger one, the front MG is fake. it was built to a wwii conmemorating exposition. he had seen the photo before.
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Posted by rebelreenactor on Thursday, June 29, 2006 7:58 PM
yes it is. These are made for reenacting and movies. Real tigers are far too valuable to run around in mock battles. I belive the tiger used in saving private ryan was a t-34 chassis. I have seen them with both t-55 and t-34 chassis.
John
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:35 PM
why russian tanks? there is not another tank that looks like a tiger? its ironic that a t-34 was reconverted to a tiger. the both were ones of the most famous tanks in the eastern front, one from russia, the other from germany.
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Posted by MortarMagnet on Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:59 PM
T-34s and T-54/55s get used because there is a metric Sh*t load of them floating around in the world for next to free, relatively speaking.
Brian
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Posted by rebelreenactor on Friday, June 30, 2006 12:12 AM

 MortarMagnet wrote:
T-34s and T-54/55s get used because there is a metric Sh*t load of them floating around in the world for next to free, relatively speaking.

 

exactly. there are a ton of them left from soviet times.

I also belive that there are other mock german tanks from british APC's. The 251 halftracks used by reenactors are almost czech versions of the 251. You can see it in this picture. The 251 in the backround does not have the storage boxes in the side of a German 251.

If you look around on the WWII reenactor sites, sometimes they will have pictures of there vehicles and the work they went through to make it look period.

John
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Posted by KJ200 on Friday, June 30, 2006 7:37 AM

I saw the T34/Tiger on a low loader on the way home from work a few years back.

Looked pretty convincing.

Karl

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 30, 2006 2:57 PM

i saw a page on int about the last running tiger with it original engine. after 64 years (it has ben captured by the british in tunisia in 1942) it still works and fire.

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