1/144 Takom Landkreuzer P1000 Ratte & Panzer VIII Maus

Modeling Subjects Armor
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Given the box art I’m not certain if this should be on the armor board or the science fiction board. Not only is this a model of a massive proposed World War II German tank with a two gun battleship turret , much larger then the two included Maus tanks, the biggest armored vehicles built during the war, but it appears to be getting air support from from three laser (?) firing flying saucers. I’m not Joking.

The Landkreuzer never got beyond the drawing board stage and given its massive size, if built, would have been hard to get too the wide to get to the battlefield. There were no roads wide enough or bridges capable of handling the weight of the beast. Its huge size would make it an obvious target for air attacks.

Still I guess there are a lot of hobbyists who will want this kit as a what if project. The 1/144th will keep it from hogging a unreasonable amount of shelf space.

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Thanks for the head’s up Gearhead, I had to go look this up…

I love the flying saucers, I think the whole thing could be a good example of Hitler’s drug-fueled delirium…

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Nice !

I’m beginning to like this Takom company with their unusual models.

At 1/144 scale, about how big this Landkreuzer will be ? How long ?

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I dunno, but it’s goofy enough that I may have to break out of comfort zone and build one…

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Could not find anything on their site except the above pic…I don’t do tracks, but that could be an exception.

The kit # in their site search didn’t go anywhere.

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Please build this thing, this is one to see….

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Looks like they might be 11 inchers and turret from one of the pocket battle wagons.

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The “real” Landkreuzer was supposed to be something like 35 meters, which in Yankee-Speak, works out to 9-1/2" long in 1/144 scale. A good hefty size for an armor kit.

Wow, the box art has laser-equipped flying saucers. Get your laser-equipped flying saucers here:

http://www.hlj.com/product/WAVHH-42/Sci

Piccies of what’s inside:

https://flic.kr/p/qA4Lzi[img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7520/16138058579_eaafc86516.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/qA4Lzi]Haunebu-02[/url] by N. T. Izumi, on Flickr:600:0]

https://flic.kr/p/qQehmN[img]https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8657/16298345726_fb3ac7ba60.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/qQehmN]Haunebu-03[/url] by N. T. Izumi, on Flickr:600:0]

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ooooooooohhhhhhhh 5/38 twin mount in a round turret, me likey

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Not flak guns - laser beams! [;)]

Interesting that the flying saucers on the box look a heck of a lot like the Wave kit…

Sigh - I guess the Landkreuzer is going to find a spot in my stash. Nuts, cool stuff keep coming out, no end in sight!

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I love the camo…are they going to hide it in some bushes ? :stuck_out_tongue:

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I saw something like that on “Nazi Super Weapons” or something like that. Discovery? History Channel? I can’t remember.

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Honestly,months the whole thing is rather silly, and I’m a huge German armor fan. Can’t say that I’ll spend any money on it. It’s really more Sci-Fi than anything.

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The Landkreuzer is ludicrous, actually. No place to drive the thing, it would destroy everything in its path wherever it went including friendly areas, and the swath of destruction would make it easy for the swarms of Jabos to track it down and bomb the crap out of it. How many days would it take to replace a broken track segment? How many thousands of gallons of (unavailable) fuel would the thing need? Where would all the material come from? Totally nuts concept. But fun for us modelers that like silly things!

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Someone Bonkers* is scratch building something similar in 1/35th, like it anyway!

[;)] * Bonkers: Brit-speak for barking-mad, but in a good interesting/harmless way

Why did the Germans spend so much time on Bonkers projects?

They thought some of them would work

That Austrian believed/wanted them to work,

& those working on them were exempt from front-line conscription & service.
(apart from the slave-workers conscripted to do the dangerous stuff, obviously!)

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Yeah, I think ultimately you had to either be on drugs, insane or both to be a ranking member of the National Socialist party.

Someone on another forum talked about building a dio of one of these things stuck in the mud and 150 or so FAMO heavy recovery halftracks trying to pull it out…

Of course maybe one of the flying saucers could use it’s tractor beam to pull it out eh??? [aln]

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This is simpler.
I use the one I built to destroy russian tanks…
!http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b232/gluetank/Animated/My%20UFO%201/Tankdestroyer_zpse6ccf474.png

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The word on the street is that these really obscure one-offs are being inspired by the “World of Tanks” phenomenon. I tried playing it; couldn’t really get into it. But there are a lot of guys always going for the big bruisers on there and its inspiring some model companies to cater to that crowd.

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The tactical absurdity of this thing is beyond the pale. You’ve got two massive main guns – probably with a range of 25 miles or so. Thus, it’s obviously a moblie heavy arty platform, right?

WRONG. You mount an 88 on a barbette to defeat enemy AFVs via direct fire – thus this is some sort of super-tank. Idiocy in extremis. I can’t even suspend belief and take it seriously as one of those 1946 What If models. You might as well put butterfly wings on an elefant and call it a glider.

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They did…it was called F-104 Starfighter[whstl][whstl]