New French ARL44 heavy tank from Amusing Hobby

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just to clarify, there were 60 built instead of 6. They've been working on it for several months now, I shared all of my research and measurements and photos at the beginning of the year. I'm truly excited, I have been researching this tank for almost 20 years to build one myself! I should add that if you want a true sign of love, have your wife agree that it makes sense to go to Paris (not a hard sell. . .), spend $400 in train tickets to go to Saumur, and then patiently stand there for two hours making notes while your idiot husband climbs all over a failed tank with tap measures and angle gauges. . .

Interesting, probably a WoT tie-in?

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Interesting, probably a WoT tie-in?

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Amusing Hobby (and Modelcollect) seems to do that. This is not their first WoT-related release; but at least this tank existed, so yay! Nobody can complain this time that it's a paper panzer.

just to clarify, there were 60 built instead of 6. They've been working on it for several months now, I shared all of my research and measurements and photos at the beginning of the year. I'm truly excited, I have been researching this tank for almost 20 years to build one myself! I should add that if you want a true sign of love, have your wife agree that it makes sense to go to Paris (not a hard sell. . .), spend $400 in train tickets to go to Saumur, and then patiently stand there for two hours making notes while your idiot husband climbs all over a failed tank with tap measures and angle gauges. . .

I think those of us who love rare tanks owe WoT a huge thank you for bringing so many gamers into an interest in rarer prototypes . I went to Saumur 6 years ago because at the time the idea that anyone would ever make a resin kit, never mind a plastic one, of this beast seemed silly.

Matt,
you're lucky enough not to have been caught by the museum staff on top of the ARL in Saumur. It is strictly forbidden. Fortunately for us, French armor modelers, they did not see you spying this state-of-the-art piece of French armor

I usually do modern vehicles only but will certainly do an exception for this one.

Olivier

Hi Matt,

Is that one piece, the whole hull?! Amazing engineering.