Favorite tank? 1. Visually 2. Running

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Max-U52 wrote:Roy's mention of creditcarditis reminded me of something I once heard a man say, " On the day I die I want to be deep in debt and completely surrounded by very, very cool toys that aren't yet paid for."
..and here's the one that will finally empty your coffers, Gary..and empty a local pond at the same time :haha:
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So where is it, how much, will they deliver and do they take Mastercard? Don't tease me, Man!! In my dreams I live on one of those. Would that be cool, or what?
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Max-U52 wrote:So where is it, how much, will they deliver and do they take Mastercard? Don't tease me, Man!! In my dreams I live on one of those. Would that be cool, or what?
I will admit that it has a certain alluring weirdness about it. It's still fashionable to live on canal boats and barges here in the UK (not so common in Scotland though..with fewer canals). I could imagine how you would surprise the neighbours if this Schlepper shook off it's boat disguise, like a 'Transformer', and emerged from the Grand Union Canal (site of many barges and houseboats) in Central London..now that would be cool...it would start off like this:
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jarndice wrote:DAN Hi, You are making a comment that the grumpier ones on this Forum have been making for some years with an emphasis on where the F*** is the CENTURIAN and the CHIEFTAIN and has anyone ever seen a CONQUEROR in 1/16 RC ?
HERMAN BIX wrote:Factories will make what most will buy.............Im surprised they made a Challenger, but glad they did.

Have a think about how many 'bad' H/L Tiger 1's there are in circulation now, and they still sell, put that against a 'good' other version of any mark................simple capitalist economics I'm afraid.
It makes me laugh that Tigers accounted for something like 0.2% of all of the armour produced during WW2, yet seem to account for 50% of the RC market. No love for the Matilda, Valentine, Stuart, SU-76M?
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If actual production numbers are anything to go by, we should be swamped by T34s. Over 84,000 produced, compared with 1300 Tiger 1s. Admittedly, T34 production continued till 1958.
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True but would you rather have a Volkswagen Beetle or a Lamborghini ? :)
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