This is just for the heck of it . Arthur C. Radebaugh (1906-1974) was a visionary. During WWII he dreamed up an interesting half-track (sorta stealth – but back in the days when “stealth” meant you snuck quietly). Take a peek at: http://www.palaceofculture.org/rad_world_fair_war.html
That is cool!
For those of you too lazy to click, here’s the halftrack:
There’s a lot of other cool stuff on that site, too.
Thanks for the link!
Where are the tail fins?
what a scratchbuild project!!! do you start from a car or a halftrack??[:D][:D]
Are those drink holders on the roof?
lol, somehow I don’t think so [:)]
That would really be something interesting to model. Pretty much any offshoot vehicle would be. We should have a ‘what if’ vehicle GB.
Its almost cute isn’t it. I mean its like a normal pickup truck…but with tracks and a 50 cal.
Cool! Nice concept sketch. I’m wondering where the driver’s door and side window is! An M3 is bad enough to drive without any vision to the side (kind of like maneuvering in a shoe box).
Ron.
The rear end kinda looks like an SdKfz 251C, does it not?
Drink holders!
Where are the doors? And with all this “Futuristic” design elements, couldn’t they come up with some protection for the guy hanging on the .50? I agree with J-Hulk, they stole the back end off a 251C!
Paint it Pink and its straight out of Thunderbirds
Yes me Lady
Looks like a standard M3 chassis. Maybe the “roof” folds down and the two round things are periscopes?
It does look like a 251 but then angled armour is better than flat and the 250/251 didn’t have front doors either.
I bet this guy designed some really cool toasters!
Very cool looking half track. I do agree that would be one interesting scratch build project.
mark956
Cool!
A concept half-track, who’d have thunk it [:)]
First thing that I noticed was the rear end looking like the 251/C. Pretty neat none the less.
Parker!
Unfortunately [V] this is one of those times where what one sees is what one gets and that’s all she wrote! In this case, a single picture of not particularly good resolution is probably all we’ll ever have of this what-if. [bnghead]
[2cnts] I think you’re looking at it: the roof, probably hinged, with something like jacks to raise it and to hold it up. Would it’ve been practical? Heck, no! Just remember, the whole thing is Radebaugh’s airbrush painting of a wartime brainstorm, thus idealized to the nth degree and missing li’l details like doors and hoods. If you like, think of them as “extra cost options”.
[2cnts] Allowing for the fact that this was only a concept (and one rejected by the Army at that), there could’ve been some side vision. The gap between the roof and the side panel has been greatly foreshortened by the artist’s elevated perspective. [:XX] What looks like a slit in the painting may’ve been conceived as being a window a yard wide and several inches high.
[2cnts] Only if one squints. [;)] One open topped, angle-sided, armored box on treads looks a lot like any other open topped, angle-sided, armored box on treads. I doubt that A.C.R. was trying to rip-off [cnsod] a “Gepanzerte Manschafts Transportwagen”, but one must admit that the Nazis got there first.
[2cnts] And at least a half slew of other eye candy as well! Google “Radebaugh” images and see!