I found this while doing a completely unrelated search. Gotta love Google. This would be a cool conversion.
Mark
Notice all the sag in those tracks.I do believe somebody recently modeled a T-34 like that and was told it was too much.
Here’s a color plate of one
This pic is actually photoshopped…the tank is a model…
then that’s a damn fine photoshop! Gosh, If I had the cash to toss around, I’d buy those two kits and put 'em together!
I have the Japanese magazine in which the model appears and the technique in making the pic…they also showed how they “shopped” JS III’s into Battle for Berlin pics, etc…
I was wondering… the two tankers in the early war berets… I dont know if anyone else here feels the same way, but things like this really tend to get my blood boiling when it is attempted to be passed off as legit… like colorizing b&W photos then passng them off on a site that specializes in vintage color photos…
…Same thing I heard too.
That is indeed pretty impressive photoshop skills.
That photo may be a fake, but supposedly a modification like that existed. A conversion was reportedly done by Kampfgruppe Kienast in Saxony in 1945, 88mm Flak 36 gun mounted on a modified T-34/76 chassis.
Hi,Mark.
This is Fitz, the Japanese.
This pictures is, as already told, photoshoped.
The origin of this picture is Japanese modelling magazine “Armor modelling” issue Aug/2007.
The issue contains lots of “Fake panzers” pictures and all of them are very nicely photoshoped.
The tank in this picture is built by Hisato Shinohara. His other works can be seen in his web site.
There is no question that it is a fake…I’m not disputing the modification did exist, but it is fact that the pic is a model of a kitbash photoshopped onto a real wartime pic…
That’s also a fake…
just kidding…
Hello all,
Once I talked to an old man in Germany. Very nice guy. And he served in SS during WWII, in an anti-tank unit. He told me how they converted a captured T-34 with a compartment and a PAK mounted in place of the turret. There was even a motto painted over the cannon port on the inside (I have it taken down if anybody is interested). He also told me about how they knocked out a T-34, the russians towed it away during the nighttime after several hours the tank would be back just to be knocked out again. By the way, there were so many cool conversions you will never be able to mdel exactly…
Best greeting and have a nice day
Pawel