It looks like one of those old kits like Frankenstein’s Hot Rod. Wasn’t it Big Daddy Roth that did those? Kinda’ like the Weird-Oh’s for that matter!! lol
Very funny, Mike!! lol
This is a serious fighting machine mister! I can’t disparage the memory of these short-legged men who went to battle by painting racing stripes!
Just wait until I finish his head, complete with armor plated clown nose and camo wig.[:p]
Now I’m beginning to understand why it’s “MAD” Tiger Day!! lol
(Who ever heard of a camo wig!)
Apologies to all. I completely respect Fighting Clowns of all nations, both from yesteryear and today and would never intentionally show them any disrespect.
Besides I would hate to be hit with an 88mm armour piercing pie.
Unfortunately, they were only issue High Explosive Pie (HEP).
This was designed to be used as an anti-infantry weapon. The idea was to immobilize the enemy with incapicitating laughter during approach, then drop a HEP round.
The French tried it with Mimes. Didn’t work though, all the Mimes were destroyed by anti-mime mines.
Those that got through had their damage minimized by the zimmerit. Mimes won’t stick to it. They would jump on the tank, fall off and blow up in the dirt. Although there is the great mime ace Marcel Marceux who was able to contain a german advance by pretending to box them up. He was later taken out of the war by an angry office worker trying to eat his lunch in a park.
The French tried it with Mimes. Didn’t work though, all the Mimes were destroyed by anti-mime mines.
Question: If you shoot a mime in the forest, and nobody hears it, does he make a sound?
Jeff
That’s the only time he makes a sound, the anti-mime mines are completely silent however.
Well, so much for this serious topic. It just amazes me how a serious thread can be degraded into slap stick comedy by we members. (Yes, I’m a part of it, too, I’m “ashamed” to admit.) I mean, it’s one thing if the thread is initally posted as a joke, but in the case of one like this where we’re asked to peruse and comment on someone like ausf’s best work. I mean really. A little decorum, please!
You’re right Bill, how callous of us… Is this your entry for the IPMS nationals ausf?
I wish you the best. I hear the judges are really tough there and they’ll be checking if your figures Iron Cross or Panzer Assault badge will squirt water…
I was going to complain to Lawrence about your indiscretions. Apologies accepted.
I’ll enter it in TamiyaCon if I can find the head. The Iron Cross spins and the PAB squirts weissbier, I believe that was historically correct.
I had heard rumors that Marceux led the famous ‘air’ french resistance but this was the first real account of action I know of, thanks.
[bow][bow][bow][bow][bow] I bow to your knowledge of all things German!
It may be a small thing, Ausf, but you just made my day. I am a little hungover and fragile today, and going through a “what does it all mean ?” phase, and now I feel like everything is going to be alright. I hate mimes. Really hate them. Now I have this wonderful little cartoon of exploding French mimes playing in my head. Thank you, sir.
Glad I could help a friend.
I have to admit, I keep giggling to myself at the visual of a couple of black-and-white-striped-shirt clad Frenchmen with white face trying to sneak up to a Tiger at night, doing that dopey ‘walking against wind’ crap only to exploded, absolutely silently mind you, into a million pieces.
With Micheal Palin as the Panzer Commander in the cupola doing double takes looking around for more. Wind rustling, metal clanking but dead silence when one of them blows up.[:P]
And just think, the allies will be developing a pantomime horse to counter the Tiger…
I wonder if Dragon will introduce that kit?
Anyone remember Freddy Flameout? Was there ever an armored version or is this it?
HAHAHA…nuts!
Dan
what are you guys drinking / smoking, because I want some of it.