Re: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]

[Steve Edwards <sedwards-at-awger.net>]

Rick v100 wrote:

>Sam not John is on the beer bottle. 
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>

Must... not... laugh... :-)

ObOnTopic: Caught a show on the Military Channel, don't remember the 
name of it, but it was a "Tiger vs Sherman" thing. Pretty interesting. 
They tried real hard to give the Sherman its due, but it mostly came out 
looking like the homely girl down the street that nobody asked to the dance.

Anyway... they had a couple of real tanks running around the countryside 
doing reenactments interspersed with historical footage; as I'm watching 
this show, something keeps nagging at me as being "not quite right." I 
recall they had at least two different Shermans (probably from two 
different places and on two separate occasions), one with VSS and one 
with HSS, and they were doing some digital camera tricks to make it look 
like there were four Shermans instead of one, but that wasn't it.

I ran the show back to the beginning (gotta love TiVo) and started 
watching the Tiger more closely... thought the tracks looked a little 
narrow (nope, that wasn't it). It had a small drive sprocket (maybe a 
replacement, couldn't find an original?). Then they had a shot of this 
"Tiger" rolling across a ditch and pitching up on the far side, and I 
finally noticed the roadwheels weren't spaced right. In fact, the 
suspension was completely wrong (wrong number of axles, and the 
roadwheels didn't overlap), and the small drive sprocket up front was 
just an idler, and the drive sprocket was in the back.

So, it looked like a Tiger up top but looked more like a T-34 on the bottom.

The credits at the end referenced Bovington, and I know they have a real 
Tiger (with a blown engine?), but I don't think this was it.

Anybody know what the fake Tiger was?

    - Steve "No presidents named Guiness" Edwards