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Armor/AFV
For discussions on tanks, artillery, jeeps, etc.
wrecked armoured vehicles and hard targets
Metadyne
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Posted: Thursday, October 06, 2016 - 07:44 PM UTC
Not sure if anyone is interested seeing tanks and AFVs smashed to bits and punched full of holes used as hard targets on the anti tank ranges, but here are some I took in the 80's, might come in handy for studying battle damage.






Metadyne
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Posted: Thursday, October 06, 2016 - 07:46 PM UTC


Metadyne
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Posted: Thursday, October 06, 2016 - 08:22 PM UTC
more on the way when I can dig them out.
keo
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Posted: Thursday, October 06, 2016 - 08:48 PM UTC
Wouldn't this be a great theme for campaign?
windsheer
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Posted: Friday, October 07, 2016 - 12:48 AM UTC
first Gulf war, inverted T55 on the highway to hell


windsheer
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Posted: Friday, October 07, 2016 - 12:51 AM UTC
SU122 destroyed during the first Gulf War.
Dioramartin
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Posted: Friday, October 07, 2016 - 05:45 AM UTC


Thanks for posting & if there is enough interest for a Campaign I’ve got several examples of damage that wouldn’t buff out ready to go, unless it’s restricted to Modern only. Although it would likely be um a slow-burner (sorry), the T34 below took at least five times longer to finish than a standard build & the first wreck I attempted (Panther D) took four years of intermittent effort/abandonment.

Some - perhaps most - may dismiss it as a nihilistic approach to kit-making but I believe it has a place if only to pay some respect to all the brave guys (and Red Army women) of whatever nationality that got into what often turned out to be steel coffins.

Pity the main manufacturers have never offered a wreck to build, although I dimly recall seeing a MIG Productions T34 wreck a few years ago and presumably it didn’t exactly er set the world alight.

PS for WW2 the Panzerwrecks series is a great image source.

Cheers, Tim

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