Once you are done buying that Accurate Armour Tank Landing Craft, why not buy this, a real road wheel from a Tiger II?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4078&item=2225288768
I posted this here to torture the Tiger fanatics. [(-D]
It looks like it might actually have some of the original dunkelgelb paint on it …
the best “yank” of world war 2??? LOL [:D]
boy, i thought resin goodies were high priced !!!
Sure, but where is the Franklin Mint’s certificate of authenticity?? [:D]
“Dob’t miss it!”
Sorry… no certificate… but it does come with that tree stump to display your artifact.
great to set aside the workbench for reference [:-^][(-D]
I suppose you could buy it and then build a Tiger around it.
Or even to use as a workbench.
Come on though, guys, admit it – this is cool. It’s part of a King Tiger that rolled across Eastern Europe (one assumes), plinking T-34’s and JS’s until Miller Time.
Hmm… looks a lot like one of my Land Rover hubs… [:D][:P]
come on you guys yoou could take measurements of it and make sure all your 1/35s are scaled down exactly right!!
Amazing what the frost will bring to the surface! I wonder if the rest of the tank is still down there somewhere. LOL. (makes me think of the dumpsters filled with road wheels, etc. at any Army maintenance site!)
ron
I’m personally waiting until he puts the tank’s L71 up for auction. [;)]
A thirty buck track link? Yeah, I’ll take the chance of bidding for it on eBay. An eight hundred dollar wheel …?
Doubt that occurred. They were mostly in retreat by then. Still a piece of a Kingtiger would be neat, but apparently expensive.
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I’m personally waiting until he puts the tank’s L71 up for auction. [;)]
A thirty buck track link? Yeah, I’ll take the chance of bidding for it on eBay. An eight hundred dollar wheel …?
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think of what the SHIPPING costs would be[:D]
What am I going to do with that?
I wouldn’t mind having a piece of the m10 audie murphy made his one man stand on. even a .50 cal cartridge from the site. it would be awesome to have that displayed with my audie m10 display that I’m doing.
I think I will buy that and make a rusty card table out of it ! 800 bucks for a wheel off the most underpowered tank of ww2 , I wonder what hitler paid for that new ? Will one of those fit on my work truck ?
I guess you can find everything on e-bay. You guys think He’s going to sell it?
mark956
Well, yeah, you don’t have to roll forward to roll. [(-D]
Seriously though, Tiger IIs were often used for attacks even as late as March '45. They attacked quite a lot in January '45 in the counteroffensive in Hungary. 509 sPzAbt was supporting 5th SS Pz and 2nd SS Pz. 509 racked up an impressive kill list of IS-IIs and ISU-152s, but the unit was eventually ground down.