Yeah, I believe Orion was to be fitted with a large armoured baffle plate to absorb the brunt of the explosion. Seems nuts to me that this would be more efficent than NERVA which would boil some fluid and fire it out the back as a drive. In fact you could even use water for a steam powered rocket. The rocket engineers claim toting around a bunch of bombs would weigh less than the propellent fluid.

No idea here, nope I'm not a rocket scientist   

Real G

Purely speculation but a wave detronation pulse propulsion system would require a large, heavy, shock absorbing plate to take the explosion force and shield the crew from deadly radiation.  I had read a long time ago that the Discovery was supposed to use such a powerplant, but hey who knows.  It's like when guys start arguments over intakes and wings in space for sci-fi vehicles.  On another forum.  Heh-heh.

But back to the TV-8, yes it looks easy to scratchbuild with parts from an M48 hull and a vac-formed turret.  I wonder why there are so few road wheels though.  The enormous size of the turret combined with the radiation shielding would make for a very heavy tank I would think.

Nope nope nope, not gonna do it!    Honest. 

 

But it might look good sitting next to the new, 1/35 scale Lost in Space Chariot......