excellent site spacepacker. great with loads of pics. thats not a real tiger just so you know, they based it off of a t-34 or a t-54/55 chasis. tigers, just the shell are extremely rare (thank the scrap yard people and accurate allied shooting/bombing for that one). as far as I know, there is only one working tiger I in the world, in France, but they didn’t use that for the movie SPR. The tank in that particular museum of yours however is the vehicle they used to step-in. I guess the French just aren’t willing to share the wealth. (P.S.- understandable though, that’s probably one of the most valuable and rare pieces of military history in the world. wouldn’t want to necessarily take it through a stone wall, although it would be pretty sweet…)
anyways, again fantastic site. I’ve got it on my favorites now.
Slightly off topic I guess, but I’ve always wondered to myself…
There’s several companies producing replica aircraft, both airworthy and static, yet no one is really producing WW2 era-vehicles…
With the technology they have today, it seems to me that building a functional WW2 vehicle is not outside the realm of engineering or cost (in the grand scheme of things, like a movie budget). I guess sticking a mocked up, oversized Tiger hull onto a T-34 chassis was “good enough” for the Hollywood types.
That being said, Skoda (makers of the 35 and 38T, and the basis for many German vehicles) still produce vehicles that are very similar to the 38T in design, at least the lower hull. I’ve seen them used in Colorado as snowplows in the town of Breckenridge, and a couple of smaller ski areas as tugs for snow guns, etc.
It appeared to me (as an armor modeler) that the road wheels were identical, the tracks were non-padded steel cleat style (one with growsers), and the shape of the hull was the same as the 38T.
Maybe this is where the Marder in SPR came from…who knows.
Either way…a non-armored, soft steel version of a WW2 tank would be neat…
Hey I always thought that the treads on the tigers looked like the should be on a t-34! I always wrote it off that I just didn’t know anything about German armor (which I don’t). Now I have another piece of usless triva to tell friends.
Production tanks for civilian consumption will probably never happen. Take a look at the Assault Weapons Ban, that regulates weapons based soley on cosmetic features. Do you think the far Left will allow tanks be produced and sold to the public at large? When I say public at large, I mean affordable.
After that nut stole the tank and crushed all those vehicles and the guy with the home-armored Cat destroyed half his town, I highly doubt they would allow that. Demilled, unarmored, or in any configuration
besides, if you want a tank, they are readily available and can be imported and registered. There are plenty of Yugo tanks well under $50,000
If you click on other museums try Muckleburgh, plenty of armour and a great shot of an 88…Cheers…Kenny[:)]
Muckleburgh is well worth a visit. Most of the exhibits are runners. There is also lots of other stuff to see in the museum which is situated in a lovely part of England.