Interesting Coversions??

Modeling Subjects Armor
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As we all know, In our modern(we hope it is) age, that ww2 movies are quiet popular in the Box Office-just ask the owners of Saving Private Ryan, and Band of Brothers.
But to create the armor in these movies, it is something else. They use old T-55’s, and I think M113’s or maybe something else-to make the Tigers, and uh I can’t remember what the smaller chassis was for.
It would be fun to do one of these-if you are a scratchbuilder-to take a T55 chassis, and make a Tiger I out of it. You can tell in pics and the movie itself, that the only major T55-esque part of these new hybrid cats is the chassis-also modified, but still retaining “dead” tracks.
Wouldn’t this be kind of interesting?

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Actually, the Tiger in Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers is a modified T-34. Her is some info from the Bovington, England Tank Museum who creatde them for the movie. http://www.tankmuseum.co.uk/pr-art/pr140998.html and a photo of one of the Tiger vis mods;

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The did the same trick in the old Clint Eastwood movie, Kelly’s Heroes, T-34 modified to become a Tiger. Someone did the kit in the old Military Modeler magazine.

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After those movies some have been modified into T-55 chassis … looks ALOT better, even tho there is the tell-tale gap between the front road wheel and the rest

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I think J-hulk built a “King Tiger” from the battle of the Bulge movie, I can’t remember what is was converted from.

Matt

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the Jagdpanther was a modified T55 and there was a russian film that used a T44 modified to look like a Tiger
here it is

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Oh yeah, they use the M113’s for anything on the Panzer 4 chassis…
Phroosh, the “king tiger” is actually an american tank-If you are bored, there is a thread, that you can search for-somewhere around here…

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that was a plain old m47 painted up to look like it was german, then they threw it in as a tiger to combat the american tanks which were painted up m47s as well. so jhulk did the german “tiger”

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they didnt use the M113 in Band od Bros or SPR they used the British APC this is based on

more photos here http://tanxheaven.com/eddie/fv434/fv434.htm