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Armor/AFV: Axis - WWII
Armor and ground forces of the Axis forces during World War II.
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does this seem right?
airwarrior
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Posted: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 - 09:13 AM UTC
http://www.classicfighters.co.nz/aircraft/tanksww2.htm this doesn't look right to me....... maybe its because if you look close the tracks look like rubber bands?
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Posted: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 - 09:36 AM UTC
absolutely agreed...and spare tracks look different.
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Posted: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 - 09:38 AM UTC
Heh heh - I think it looks fake because it is fake.

It looks like a full-scale mock-up vehicle. Not as sophisticated as a visimod - like used at the National Training Center - but more like a wooden or cardboard shell put on top of a small car like a Volkswagen...

Interesting, to have one and drive it around the neighborhood...

Gunnie
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Posted: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 - 09:46 AM UTC
Airwarrior

As Gunnie says, it looks funny, because it’s a ‘mock up’. A wooden or plastic tank on a driven sub frame. Basically a tank made out of wood or other material put over a car or truck. Monty did this before El Alamein. He put frames that looked like trucks over tanks to mask them from german planes.

Probably used during re-enactments.
Bribo
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Posted: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 - 09:53 AM UTC
I would agree. Looks like a twisted Mardi Gras float, HaHa
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Posted: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 - 12:35 PM UTC
Looks like a cardboard mockup with a very BAD Ambush paint job......
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Posted: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 - 06:14 PM UTC
It would be great for getting a parking space in the downtown area. Who would fight you for a space with something looking like that!!!!!
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Posted: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 - 10:45 PM UTC
you can see the sprockets are flat w/ painted on shadows....also the barrel is too thin
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