Family Portrait of my Tank Destroyer Collection

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MichaelC
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Family Portrait of my Tank Destroyer Collection

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Hi all,

My Stug III is going to a new home soon so I took a family portrait of my tank destroyer collection for another member on the local board and want to share it with everyone here.
Couldn't line them up across. Would have to pull out another leaf but then will need Panoramic shot !
Couldn't line them up across. Would have to pull out another leaf but then will need Panoramic shot !
In person the JagdTiger is slightly bigger than the Elephant, both in length and width.
In person the JagdTiger is slightly bigger than the Elephant, both in length and width.
SU-100 is getting a new barrel so the white on the mantlet is putty, not camo. Goodbye to my Stug !
SU-100 is getting a new barrel so the white on the mantlet is putty, not camo. Goodbye to my Stug !
Interesting contrast of the different sizes of Tank Destroyers
Interesting contrast of the different sizes of Tank Destroyers
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Good Morning,
Beautiful collection of amazing Tank Destroyers! That Stug will definitely be appreciated by it's new owner. The Elephant must have been a very tall machine indeed to overtop a Jagdtiger! I find this is true also of the KV-2 sitting next to a King Tiger. Huge machinery! ;o) Any plans for a new Stug?
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Thanks Painless ! I think the size of the Elephants and KV-2s just go to show how monstrous these tanks were in 1943.......At least 1 and almost 2 years before the likes of the King Tiger and the JagdTiger hit the battlefield. I don't even think there are that many KingTigers on the Eastern Front, and definitely not much Jagdtigers so really the Elephants and KV-2s are the biggest and baddest.

The Stug is the handy work of dgsselkirk....... Stug IV maybe in the future, but definitely a L/70 at some point. Only if there is a good PzIV lower that is worthy of building on......... :-(

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Did you sell your Stug because it's the only relatively stock tank on the table? :haha: :haha: By God Micheal... what a fine collection you have :thumbup:

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ALPHA, Maybe....... :-) But then so is the JagdPanther (kinda), which funny enough I am also contemplating of selling.......

Just for sizing reference, here are the specs:

JagdTiger - Lengthen Taigen KT metal lower with Juckenburg Resin Upper
Elephant - Asiatam All metal.
SU-152 - Taigen KV metal lower with HL upper hull and Juckenburg superstructure
JagdPanther - Taigen Panther metal lower with HL upper
Jackson - HL lower with Mato wheels, HL upper hull with Nick A's M36 Jackson turret
Nashorn - HL plastic lower with metal wheels, Juckenburg resin upper
Dicker Max - Asiatam all metal lower with Frank's CNC cut styrene upper
SU-100 - WSN lower and upper hull with resin superstructure
Stug - HL upper and lower with metal wheels.

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MichaelC wrote:ALPHA, Maybe....... :-) But then so is the JagdPanther (kinda), which funny enough I am also contemplating of selling.......

Just for sizing reference, here are the specs:

JagdTiger - Lengthen Taigen KT metal lower with Juckenburg Resin Upper
Elephant - Asiatam All metal.
SU-152 - Taigen KV metal lower with HL upper hull and Juckenburg superstructure
JagdPanther - Taigen Panther metal lower with HL upper
Jackson - HL lower with Mato wheels, HL upper hull with Nick A's M36 Jackson turret
Nashorn - HL plastic lower with metal wheels, Juckenburg resin upper
Dicker Max - Asiatam all metal lower with Frank's CNC cut styrene upper
SU-100 - WSN lower and upper hull with resin superstructure
Stug - HL upper and lower with metal wheels.

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:haha: :haha: :haha: The two that you did the least work on go first eh :haha: :haha: I guess there will be a little more pride as you replace the ones you chose to sell..Were those two Early builds? As I just realized I'm becoming like you....as before stock was fine... but since my T-34s and the struggles with my KV-2 and Shermans...Stock just doesn't feel the same as something you put a little soul into :D

Great Job across the board Micheal :thumbup:

ALPHA

PS. Would I be far off if I guessed the last three ... (if you sold all of them) would be the Nashorn ...Dicker Max...and the Asiatam Elephant ;) ? (the Elephant being the absolute last :haha:
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Nice collection there bud :thumbup:
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That's a great collection of good looking armor you have there Michael :thumbup:
HL /Mato tiger 1 early, Tamiya Tiger 1 early, Taigen tiger 1 mid
Taigen T34/85, HL SU-100
Jagdpanzer Lang
Taiga Jagdpanther
Heng Long Sherman DGS Firefly kit
Tamiya King Tiger (unbuilt)
Mato all metal Panzer III
1/10 Jagdpanther
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Thanks guys...... ALPHA, you are right. I probably going to die with the Elephant on my right and the Nashorn on my left inside my coffin. Who said you can't take them with you ?!?!

Not so sure about the Dicker Max yet. Need some time to get to like it more.

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MichaelC wrote:Thanks guys...... ALPHA, you are right. I probably going to die with the Elephant on my right and the Nashorn on my left inside my coffin. Who said you can't take them with you ?!?!

Not so sure about the Dicker Max yet. Need some time to get to like it more.

Michael.
HMMMMMMMMMMMM ... :think: Thinking dgsselkirk might have way with that Elephant if that day ever dawned ;) :haha: :haha:
Better put some safeguards on that Elephant Micheal :haha:

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