A Question (or two) on Band of Brothers

Modeling Subjects Armor
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A friend is loaning me the entire series on DVD. I have noticed great pains have been taken to make the armour look accurate.

Now I know not all of it is real (the Tiger is T-34 based, and teh Jadgpanther looks T-72 based) but I am very surprised to find much of it looks to be very very real.

The Stug III, the Marder, the Shermans, the Cromwells and the German half-tracks all look to be authentic.

My question is this:

Where did they get german armour in running condition?? What of the armour in BoB is real and what is good attempts at recreation??

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The Germen armor was recreated from Britsh IFVs. The Jagdpanzer for example, the upper hull was made from sheet metal built around the IFV. There was a special on HBO prior to the release of B.O.B showing the Jadgpanzer being built.

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I have got to be the only one without HBO [:(] I have heard many good things about BOB that I ordered the 6 DVD set. Hoping they arrive on Monday.

Question is: Will the wife make it through them all [}:)]

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The portion I enjoyed the most was the one tape that was exclusively interviews with the actual surviving members. To watch them relate/re-live their war experiences was for me priceless. I just went down to my local video store an rented the entire series.

Glenn

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Hey Erock68, my wife enjoyed the series. The stories cover the human side so my wife said their not like Rambo…lol

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it’s really hard to turn off to!
I ended up watching it a few times on some duties like CQ ( 24 hour army duty ), the whole series in one night.

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My wife loved the series too Eric … it kept me out of her hair for many an hour.

Back to the original post … yes the majority of the German vehicles were “ersatz”, but IMHO they went to great lengths to at least give the appearance of realism to them. IIRC the Sd.K.fz. 251 is a post war Czech vehicle built along the same lines.

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I think shermanfreak is right on the Sd.K.fz. 251but IIRC they were built with captured (left behind)
tooling so they ARE German Sd.K.fz. 251s. They are about as Czech as the Tu-4 is Russian.

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The last video in the box set shows how the producers recreated some of the vehicles and did many of the special effects for the show. A great set. [:p]

“It is we’ll that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it.”-R.E.Lee

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Interesting about the making of bits. I haven’t finished the series, but I look forward to that part, esp. since I am rapidly disliking BoB.

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Both I and my wife really enjoyed BoB. (And she usually gets very squeamish with war movies) But she liked this
series so much that we watched it over the Christmas holiday.

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The last war-type movie she watched with me was Pearl Harbor, so you know the kind of movies she likes [B)]

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I brought home the BoB series for my wife to watch, now she loves them. It’s gotten her into the entire WWII scene, including reading War and Remembrance, twice! She cares little for the actual accuracy of the tanks and equipment, as long as it tells a good story.
BTW, they are planning a sequel series about the Marines in the Pacific during the same time frame. Nothing official as far as what company or unit, but it should be great. Hanks and Spielberg are doing this one, as well. Just FYI.

demono69

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RTB!!! It’s really, really good - kept me up for hours.

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Well I just finished the entire series of BoB.

BOY DID THAT STINK!!!

I saw it for the armour, but man what a waste of time for the rest of it.