Hello Everyone,
After discussing this in the Armor forums, it seems there would be some interest in a Group Build focusing on armored vehicle designs that never made it off the drawing board or were only produced in small numbers. From a drawing board tank like the Schmall Tiger or Tiger III to vehicles that saw limited combat like the Sturer Emil, or examples that had only non-combat prototypes built, like the Maus or E-100. Feel free to set your chosen vehicle in a diorama portraying it in its intended role, or marked as the vehicle likely would have been had it ever seen service. Try not to be too science fiction-ey, but you can take liberties to build, for example, a Maus with quadruple 88mm FlaK turret. The "rules" would be as follows:
-Any scale
-Any era
-Must be a) a vehicle that was never produced, b) a vehicle that had prototypes built, or c) a vehicle that saw limited combat. For option c, try to keep it to vehicles that were produced in numbers less than 25 and not just weird-looking vehicles that were produced in some numbers like the Marder series or RSO-based AT guns.
-Add any AM you desire or build OOB. Scratchbuild if you want, some examples may require it![Sigh [sigh]](/emoticons/icon_smile_sigh.gif)
-We'll build from now until approximately sometime in spring 2008.
The GB badge:
Participants:
Hermesminiatures - Dragon 1/35 Jagdpanzer IV A-0
Gun Tech - RPM 1/35 Minemraumer
jimz66 - Trumpeter 1/35 Sturer Emil
balta1 - Dragon 1/72 Maus
detailfreak - Dragon 1/35 Dicker Max
315rooster - Vac-U-Cast 1/76 E-25 Leichterjagdpanzer Neuer Art
espins1 - Dragon 1/35 VK4501 Tiger (P)
Any questions, additions, suggestions, etc, just post away!