Re: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]

[Rick v100 <rickv100-at-yahoo.com>]

Steve, 

Probably one of the Tigers made up for Saving Private
Ryan on a T55 chassis. There are a few floating around
over in the UK.

Is this the one you saw?

http://cm.thewarandpeaceshow.com/gallery/album05/Tiger_2

Rick



--- Steve Edwards <sedwards-at-awger.net> wrote:
> Rick v100 wrote:
> 
> >Sam not John is on the beer bottle. 
> >  
> >
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 

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