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Ugly AFVs
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 07:23 AM UTC
So I saw this thread over at Aeroscale and though it would be good to have something like it on Armorama (don't nominate the Bob Semple because that's a dead horse)



My choice would have to be the original Matilda I. It looks like Orks built it.
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 07:38 AM UTC

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Matilda I. It looks like Orks built it.


Yes! It does. Or, it looks like my attempt to build an M1.
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 07:38 AM UTC
Haha- I clicked on the link and thought "Bob Sempel tank, hands down"
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 08:10 AM UTC
I've always thought the Object 279 was an ugly duckling:



But then the US Semi-Trailer Super Heavy Tank was a pretty lame idea, and ugly IMHO (image from 46 Models website):

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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 09:10 AM UTC
Well according to my Mum tanks are all ugly killing machines and she could never understand why I would want to build a model of one! I mean philosophically I suppose she has a point but I have been fascinated by armour and its history ever since I was a kid with plastic armies and I must say a heavy influence from Bovington!

So it is tough to pick one that is ugly to me. I'll have to think on that!
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 11:38 AM UTC

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Haha- I clicked on the link and thought "Bob Semple tank, hands down"


I think it"s kind of cute


well may be a face only a mother could love
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 02:06 PM UTC
I do love all of these strange and weird AFVs.
Gloddest
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 02:23 PM UTC
Hi all,

Not sure if this will work as I've never tried putting an image in a post, so here goes...

I nominate the 'Praying Mantis', a variant of the Universal/Bren Gun Carrier.

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/fhsw/images/4/4f/GB-PrayingMantis-HomeGuard.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120914185201

Though i am a tad torn, is it truly ugly or is it actually quite futuristic looking...one of the killing machines from a Terminator movie?

Regards

G
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 02:31 PM UTC
Darn, didn't work, how does one embed an image as opposed to creating a link to it?

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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 05:55 PM UTC
Just put img between brackets at the beginning of the link you've posted and /img between brackets at the end...



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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 05:58 PM UTC
Another vehicle coming out of the orc workshop:



The Soukou Sagyou Ki, Japanese engineer vehicle.
Gloddest
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:00 PM UTC
Thank you Frenchy, much appreciated!

Regards

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system
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:10 PM UTC
Surely this wins a prize - I can barely look at it.

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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:15 PM UTC
You're welcome Glod. Here's another view of the Praying Mantis :



What about the Schofield Tank (from New Zealand) :





Or the Carden-Loyd 1-Man Tank(ette) ?





(from this WoT forum thread )

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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:27 PM UTC
I've always thought the Whippet had a kind of an ugly and awkward design



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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:27 PM UTC
Thanks again Frenchy!

The one-man tankette is unlikely to win a beauty contest,

Regards

G
vettejack
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 07:05 PM UTC

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Thanks again Frenchy!

The one-man tankette is unlikely to win a beauty contest,

Regards

G


Looks like a lot of these tanks are a result of cross breeding between an design engineer and a cartoonist...
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 08:15 PM UTC
What about the Czar tank?



jwest21
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 08:18 PM UTC

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Another vehicle coming out of the orc workshop:



The Soukou Sagyou Ki, Japanese engineer vehicle.


This tank looks like Wolverine from the X-Men
jwest21
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 08:19 PM UTC

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Haha- I clicked on the link and thought "Bob Semple tank, hands down"


I think it"s kind of cute


well may be a face only a mother could love

It looks like it was made by some homeless guy out of stuff he found in a dumpster. I envision it travelling about 30 feet and then just falling apart.
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 08:29 PM UTC
Hi Vette,

In the UK we'd probably refer to some of them as 'Heath Robinson', .

On Wiki it suggests your equivalent in the US would be 'Rube Goldberg machines'? .

Regards

G
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 08:42 PM UTC
Best's Tracklayer Model 75 (USA, 1917) :





German Treffas-Wagen (1917)





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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 09:26 PM UTC
That Tracklayer looks like a parade float
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