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                        Armour identification

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Armour identification
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 5, 2004 11:56 PM
                        I seen this in the trains.co fourm and i thought it would be fun here, so here is how it goes, i will post clues or a pic of a tank ,afv, etc and who ever gusses it first get to post a clue of pic.

                        here is the clue:
                        used at the end of the war, was built for AA but had devistating effects on infintry divisions, non are still around.

                        good luck
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 1:34 AM
                        Skink
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 4:01 AM
                        Peridexion, thats 'Skank', but I hardly think t3488g deserved that.. LOL
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 6:47 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Michaelvk

                        Peridexion, thats 'Skank', but I hardly think t3488g deserved that.. LOL

                        Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 6:57 AM
                        lol
                        there loads more photos of it in the Sherman group build
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                        J-Hulk
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                        • From: Tochigi, Japan
                        Posted by J-Hulk on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 7:24 AM
                        Heh heh!
                        Wasn't there a model of that on an FSM cover a few years back?

                        EDIT:
                        Yup, and here it is:



                        October '96, volume 75.

                        Well, more than a "few" years back! Geez, time sure does fly...Big Smile [:D]
                        ~Brian
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 9:16 AM
                        Peridexion gets it!

                        if i had know it was in the sheraman gb i would not have do it, but i i have no intetsiont to go through 100+ pages of massagesBig Smile [:D]
                        October '96, volume 75. hummm maybe i will pick one up........
                        So what is your clue Peridexion?
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                        spector822002
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                          December 2003
                        • From: Southern Maine
                        Any suggestions on a tool to make rivets on ABER PE
                        Posted by spector822002 on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 12:30 PM
                        Skank ? And all along ,I thought that was a woman to be avoided at all costs ! Learn something new everyday !Big Smile [:D] Good name for the tank though .
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 12:43 PM
                        It's coming, I have the vehicle in mind, I just need to find the photo.
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 2:49 PM
                        This isn't the tank I wanted to post, I can't find the photo. But this one should give you folks enough trouble, mainly from the poor image quality. Sorry, but this is the only photo of this I could find.



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                        spector822002
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                        • From: Southern Maine
                        Posted by spector822002 on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 4:13 PM
                        Thats a decapitated cat excavator , ( or something british )Big Smile [:D]
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 7:45 PM
                        Skink is a verb, isn't it? I believe the proper conjugation is; Skink, skank, skunk, if I'm not mistaken. You guy's give up on this one yet? It's a toughy! Only two of them made.
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 11:20 PM
                        Dodgy photo alright, but it looks like one of the German Grosstractor designs from the late 1920's. Probably Grosstractor 1with one 105mm howitzer in the lower turret and 3 mg's in the rear/upper turret.
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 7, 2004 1:20 AM
                        Close enough! Actually Grosstraktor III. Very good Petbat, you're are next winner! My books say it has a 75mm, but they are kind of sketchy on this vehicle, maybe it is a 105. Sorry about the junk photo, it's the only one I've seen of this beast.
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 7, 2004 5:53 PM
                        Peridexion, I have better reference pics of Grosstacktor 1 and Grosstracktor 2 but don't have my camera at the moment. I hope to pick it up late next week so I'll send you the pics if you e-mail me your address.

                        As to the quiz, the family and I are off to see my Wife's sick Granfather and I will be offline for a week. So here is a pic, and I'll send t3488g the answer, seeing as he started this thread. I'll leave it to him to choose a new pic if no-one gets this one.



                        One obscure tip - only one of these saw action against the Germans in WW2. Good luck.
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 7, 2004 11:01 PM
                        As stated by petbat, i have the answer. so i can't participate. heh this looks hard. :D good luck, i will post somthing else if no one can get it.
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 8, 2004 12:39 AM
                        Ah....would that be the Dutch M39 Panserwagen, the production model of the Van Dorne Type 3 armored car?
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 8, 2004 5:00 PM
                        Winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                        Happy B-Day [bday]Happy B-Day [bday]Happy B-Day [bday]Happy B-Day [bday]
                        petbat put: The Dutch M39 Panzerwagon Armoured Car

                        your up next PeridexionBig Smile [:D]
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 8, 2004 7:22 PM
                        This shouldn't be too hard, you can probably already guess the country it's from.



                        However, I do think that the designers of this vehicle had some issues with certain parts of the male anatomy. Wink [;)]
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                        r13b20
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                        Posted by r13b20 on Thursday, April 8, 2004 7:46 PM
                        Jam on the brakes and dig a trench! WOT?!
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 8, 2004 9:42 PM
                        it's like the dora, but with tracks instead of rails Shock [:O]
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 9, 2004 11:37 PM
                        No guesses yet? Too modern to be German, who else would make such a monster?
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 10, 2004 12:48 AM
                        the chassie looks like a kv-1. is this a joke? it looks like a picture, or a painting because there is a seam in the gun.

                        maybe you should post something else if no one can get it, it seems you have stumped everyone. Big Smile [:D]

                        one last guess though:
                        203mm self-propelled gun m1975 (2s7)
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 10, 2004 1:42 AM
                        No, this isn't a joke, but it sure looks like it could be. The seam on the right side of the photo is from the centerline fold in the magazine from which I took the picture. Give up? Well t3488g, you were on the right track. This is the SU-310, Soviet superheavy, rocket-assisted, 310mm artillery piece, taken outside the Artillery, Engineers and Signals Museum in St. Petersberg. If this isn't big enough for you, there is also a 410mm piece that looks just like it! You're probably not going to find this in very many books, if any. I'll be back just as soon as I scan in the next Mystery Vehicle!?!
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:00 AM
                        OK, you folks thought that last one was weird? Well, try to figure out what this thing is:



                        And no, I didn't chop it up in Photoshop.
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                        J-Hulk
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Tochigi, Japan
                        Posted by J-Hulk on Saturday, April 10, 2004 8:41 AM
                        No idea what that is, but here are some pix of a full scratchbuild done by local Osakan modeler Akira Yoshimoto of the 2A3 406mm SPG that looks a lot like that previous Soviet piece. This model won the grand prize at The 16th Armour Modeller's Conference in Kansai.

                        Here's the link:

                        http://homepage1.nifty.com/lefthand/16afv/16afv_page01/16afv_1.html

                        And here's a quick pic:

                        ~Brian
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 10, 2004 8:54 AM
                        the russian gun is outside a musium in Moscow its a bit like the atom gun the US had
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:38 AM
                        J-Hulk, According to Military Modelcraft International, the magazine from which I obtained this info, the model would be the "SU-410mm" thingy, or so they called it. 406, 410? ah, what's 4mm when you have a schwanz this big, eh? I don't really know what this thing REALLY is. 2A3? OK, sounds good to me!
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                        J-Hulk
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Tochigi, Japan
                        Posted by J-Hulk on Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:55 AM
                        I dunno either, Peridixion!
                        That's just what Mr. Yoshimoto calls it. Actually, in the Japanese text it says: "2A3/#12467;#12531;#12487;#12531;#12469;#12488;#12540;2P 406mm"
                        (can ya'll see that?), or: 2A3/ Kondensato 2P 406mm."

                        "Kondensato" is from the Japanese Katakana, so I have no idea of the actual spelling.

                        But what a big gun!
                        ~Brian
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 10, 2004 12:01 PM
                        It really is a beautiful model, little wonder he took the grand prize. Notice how much the color changes in the 3 photos in the link you posted, all due to changes in lighting. Something we all need to keep in mind, not only as we build them, but also as they are displayed and photographed, most of the time all under different lights. I don't know how many times I've heard people whine about the color accuracy of the paint, when so much of what we see is due to the lighting. OK, now let's see if we can identify this new thingy!
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